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Sick animal with a Black nose

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  • 27-08-2014 10:51pm
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    Deano7
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    Just wondering does anyone know a cure or cause of this?


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    _Brian
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    We've never had it but I think that might be a sensitivity to light.. BIL's bull had something similar, started brown crusty first...

    Photosensitivity..


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    agriman27
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    You'll have to inject with an antihistamine injection, vet says its caused by an allergic reaction to something they eat, I recently read online somewhere that too much buttercup is the cause nobody knows for sure. Keep her in for at least ten days in the darkest shed you have


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    Deano7
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    agriman27 wrote: »
    You'll have to inject with an antihistamine injection, vet says its caused by an allergic reaction to something they eat, I recently read online somewhere that too much buttercup is the cause nobody knows for sure. Keep her in for at least ten days in the darkest shed you have

    Turns out it's brown snout and it effects their liver quite bad.


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    greysides
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    'Brown Snout' is a local name for Photosensitisation.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

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    _Brian
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    greysides wrote: »
    'Brown Snout' is a local name for Photosensitisation.

    They're also very prone to it coming back... I know the bull I mentioned above got it back and was culled as a result.


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    Dont be daft
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    agriman27 wrote: »
    You'll have to inject with an antihistamine injection, vet says its caused by an allergic reaction to something they eat, I recently read online somewhere that too much buttercup is the cause nobody knows for sure. Keep her in for at least ten days in the darkest shed you have

    I heard St. Johns Wort could cause it too.

    Something to do with the liver, either can't create a vital chemical or creates a bad chemical.


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    greysides
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    Dont be daft wrote: »
    I heard St. Johns Wort could cause it too.

    Something to do with the liver, either can't create a vital chemical or creates a bad chemical.


    Three types of Photosensitisation:

    1. Congenital- ignore, rare,
    2. Primary- too much photodynamic agent in forage for liver to cope with, spills over into bloodstream.
    3. Hepatogenous- liver under pressure from a chemical unable to cope with normal amounts of photodynamic agent. Chemical source most often is a plant poisoning.

    So basically, most of the time intake of plant material is to blame.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



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    Willfarman
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    I had an animal like that. I thought the condition was called brown nose? I took him into the shed. Gave him copper. If was probably a bit to do liver fluke damage I thought. He shed the skin off his nose after a few weeks and came on.


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