Fecal Contamination of the Vagina and Vestibule Caused Infertility of a Toggenburg Doe Due to a Third-Degree Perineal Laceration

Trauma during parturition may inflict various degrees of lesions in the cervix, vagina, and/or vestibule in domestic females. A third-degree perineal laceration has been shown to occur when a foal’s or calf’s foot or nose catches the annular folds of the hymen at the vaginovestibular junction in mares and cows, but we were unable to find similar reports in the doe. This case report describes a doe unable to become pregnant due to fecal contamination of the vestibule and vagina caused by a third-degree perineal laceration. [...]