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Cow with sunburn???

  • 11-04-2010 4:25pm
    #1
    locky76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭


    I have a cow that has shed a lot of hair around hor back/ tail area, the skin is now peeling like it has been sunburnt. any ideas on what is wrong and what i should do? she's a cull cow i left out about 4 weeks ago, she'll be coming home in a letter in 6 or 7 weeks with the help of god!!!


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  • #2
    theroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭theroad


    locky76 wrote: »
    I have a cow that has shed a lot of hair around hor back/ tail area, the skin is now peeling like it has been sunburnt. any ideas on what is wrong and what i should do? she's a cull cow i left out about 4 weeks ago, she'll be coming home in a letter in 6 or 7 weeks with the help of god!!!

    Could it be photosensitivity brought on by something she ate? Some plants will cause that when the weather's sunny. I had a bullock with that a few years ago, he wasn't too bad and the vet said keep him inside out of sunlight for a while (weeks) and put some fly repellant on him to stop the maggots getting into the sores while he heals. He came right in the end.


  • #3
    st1979
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    I had a cow with sunburn when she was a yearling also lost eyesight totally in 1 eye and its not great in another. Was told it was something she ate she is now 5 years old and skin seems stronger but does seem to always have flaky patches. Have a calf that i put out a couple of weeks ago and went nearly blind and sunburnt had to take her back in again. Not sure what to do with her


  • #4
    dar31
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    some thing she ate and the liver cant handle it resulting in what looks like sun burn.
    keep her out of direct sunlight for a month or more, a few shots of pen strep (watch withdrawals) if it starts to look a bit infected, push her on and get rid of.
    wont do her much harm, just looks bad.


  • #5
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    I had a cow with something similar 2 yrs ago. VET said it was hypersensitivity to UV light. It was around tha time of all the bad weather, when we got a break of a few very fine days. Her mouth & tail area blistered up and she was in agony, swinging her head from side to side. Symptoms very similar to blue tongue, but her udder was fine.
    I had to lock her into a shed for a few days, let out only by night. She made a full recovery. Last year similar symptoms when weather got fine, but not as bad.
    The VET mentioned o-zone damage and more UV getting through.
    I put a lot of it down to her very short fine hair and the very sudden change in weather..


  • #6
    locky76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭locky76


    thanks for all the replies, she has been in scrubland where there are lots of weeds and ****e like that and shes not long out of the shed so that would explain the photosensitivity.
    she hasnt gotten worse but if she does ill give her the penstrep and house her for a week or two if she does.


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