WARTS ON INCALF( DAIRY) Heifers

MOOVAN

What is the concoction people use for treating warts, it has castor oil and something else i can't remember ?
I tried lab sampling to make vaccine before (no joy).
No joy with holywater either!!
Any other suggestions or home remedies ? Cheers

tanko

MOOVAN wrote: »

What is the concoction people use for treating warts, it has castor oil and something else i can't remember ?
I tried lab sampling to make vaccine before (no joy).
No joy with holywater either!!
Any other suggestions or home remedies ? Cheers

I had a red limo heifer with warts, they disappeared by themselves after 12 months. Making up a vaccine was too expensive just for one animal. Im surprised it didnt work for you. I've heard of vets making a small cut in the animal's skin, putting in some of the warts and sowing it up. Dont know if it works.

They are unsightly, but i dont think they do any harm.

epfff

Had i last yr
very ugly but had no effect on animal that i could see
the summer sun solved it
so my advice is turn blind eye

stop thelights

MOOVAN wrote: »

What is the concoction people use for treating warts, it has castor oil and something else i can't remember ?
I tried lab sampling to make vaccine before (no joy).
No joy with holywater either!!
Any other suggestions or home remedies ? Cheers

Ya we find castor oil pretty good. It doesnt take long to rub a bit in after taking the machine off we find. Usually clears up then.

MOOVAN

epfff wrote: »

Had i last yr
very ugly but had no effect on animal that i could see
the summer sun solved it
so my advice is turn blind eye

I might get a blind eye if I try to milk them in January when they calve;).
Might be grand for sucklers to ignore but I'll be putting on the hurling helmet with the faceguard ,hee,hee !!!
You never know we might get our summer this winter and the warts might disappear !!!

whelan1

normally they disappear, if still there after she calves then is the time to do something about it

gud

you may think it mad but this actually works in about 1 month, my uncle heard of this cure years ago when I had a heifer covered in warts,
you mixed burnt oil with a few cups of builders lime and human pee...
when the paste is made brush it onto the warts.

MOOVAN

gud wrote: »

you may think it mad but this actually works in about 1 month, my uncle heard of this cure years ago when I had a heifer covered in warts,
you mixed burnt oil with a few cups of builders lime and human pee...
when the paste is made brush it onto the warts.

Thanks,don't fancy the human pee part but because the heifers are so bad i might have to bite the bullet :P.
Do i have to paste it on for the month or just the once a wait ?

gud

you just paste it on the once, should be no need to re-apply as the oil should take awhile to fade away. hope it works for you.

Sam Kade

gud wrote: »

you may think it mad but this actually works in about 1 month, my uncle heard of this cure years ago when I had a heifer covered in warts,
you mixed burnt oil with a few cups of builders lime and human pee...
when the paste is made brush it onto the warts.

What magical words did he use after mixing this concoction

MOOVAN

gud wrote: »

you just paste it on the once, should be no need to re-apply as the oil should take awhile to fade away. hope it works for you.

I'll let you know how it goes !!! thanks Gud

Sam Kade

MOOVAN wrote: »

Thanks,don't fancy the human pee part but because the heifers are so bad i might have to bite the bullet :P.
Do i have to paste it on for the month or just the once a wait ?

I had a dairy heifer last year with a big wart on one teat. It didn't look that big after she calved but you would still notice it (about half the thickness of your small finger). I got the vet to remove it as I was selling the heifer all he did was cut it off with a scalpel and it healed over a few days.

The man in red and black

gud wrote: »

you may think it mad but this actually works in about 1 month, my uncle heard of this cure years ago when I had a heifer covered in warts,
you mixed burnt oil with a few cups of builders lime and human pee...
when the paste is made brush it onto the warts.

I don't like to knock home remedies straight off but a wart is caused by a virus which the body eventually mounts an immune response against causing regression of the wart. My own father used to swear by making the sign of the cross on a wart on a person with a piece of straw, you then bury the piece, the wart will disappear when the piece of straw rots. It's just the body getting rid of the wart with immune response. The same will happen in time with the dairy heifers. The problem is waiting that length of time. Vaccines made with part of the wart ground up sometimes work but not 100%.

Best to stop the heifers getting warts. Examine the housing, they generally get the wart because of the virus penetrating through a traumatic injury to the teat. Could the bedding be improved to reduce trauma to the teats?

MOOVAN

The man in red and black wrote: »

I don't like to knock home remedies straight off but a wart is caused by a virus which the body eventually mounts an immune response against causing regression of the wart. My own father used to swear by making the sign of the cross on a wart on a person with a piece of straw, you then bury the piece, the wart will disappear when the piece of straw rots. It's just the body getting rid of the wart with immune response. The same will happen in time with the dairy heifers. The problem is waiting that length of time. Vaccines made with part of the wart ground up sometimes work but not 100%.

Best to stop the heifers getting warts. Examine the housing, they generally get the wart because of the virus penetrating through a traumatic injury to the teat. Could the bedding be improved to reduce trauma to the teats?

These heifers only spent 1 month in last winter on dusted cubicals,so i don't put the warts down to bedding or trauma indoors in this case but with the damp weather outside I'm sure didn't help stop the wart virus.
I was talking to a person working in the lab and they can't get over the amount of wart vaccines being requested this year.According to the experts,the fact we didn't get any sunshine this summer has not helped the wart situation.
Thanks for your input.:)

ford bo

We had 3 Incalf heifers last year. And they had warts on their teats. One espicially had one the size of a tennis ball. So we decided to put bands on them . We bought the bands. The bands are used to take pigs tails off. But we decided to place the bands in hot water and put it on the warts. After a week it stop the blood going to the warts and it slowly eats into warts.when it fell off there was no scare. We though they were brillant.and plus the bands only cost 25c each. ..:)

The man in red and black

MOOVAN wrote: »

These heifers only spent 1 month in last winter on dusted cubicals,so i don't put the warts down to bedding or trauma indoors in this case but with the damp weather outside I'm sure didn't help stop the wart virus.
I was talking to a person working in the lab and they can't get over the amount of wart vaccines being requested this year.According to the experts,the fact we didn't get any sunshine this summer has not helped the wart situation.
Thanks for your input.:)

Sorry I may have made that sound too strong. I didn't mean a traumatic injury like a badly torn teat. I meant more of a graze or scrape that the virus penetrates through much the same as how we get warts on our hands through slight nicks and cuts. The damp weather may not be helping them as you said but they'll still regress in time. Just a nuisance while they're there.