warts on teats

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Has anyone experience with warts on cows teats? Few on a heifer that I thought would just go after a few weeks.... Milking 3 weeks now and there worse now than when she calved. Nasty yokes, never had them before... Can they spread from cow to cow? Any suggestions?! Thanks..

Mad4simmental

Smother them useing Vaseline or the like over a few days. Every milking apply more.

A cow called Daisy

Castor oil before milking leaves teats softer and so machine doesn't 'pinch' animal as much
Castor oil after milking helps clear them up.
Worked on heifers here

farmerjj

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

Castor oil before milking leaves teats softer and so machine doesn't 'pinch' animal as much
Castor oil after milking helps clear them up.
Worked on heifers here

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Future Farmer

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

Castor oil before milking leaves teats softer and so machine doesn't 'pinch' animal as much
Castor oil after milking helps clear them up.
Worked on heifers here

+2

feckin day gone again!!

Future Farmer wrote: »

+2

I've been applying castor oil for 3 months am + pm..... Warts are still there, they've dried and hardened a bit but still there.

Future Farmer

feckin day gone again!! wrote: »

I've been applying castor oil for 3 months am + pm..... Warts are still there, they've dried and hardened a bit but still there.

Before & After Milking?

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Future Farmer wrote: »

Before & After Milking?

Yes... I cut of d hand section of an ai glove and used it for putting on d oil... Saved getting oil on d blue gloves etc.... I smothered them in oil every milking..

Future Farmer

feckin day gone again!! wrote: »

Yes... I cut of d hand section of an ai glove and used it for putting on d oil... Saved getting oil on d blue gloves etc.... I smothered them in oil every milking..

Is it a heifer? What's her BCS like?

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Future Farmer wrote: »

Is it a heifer? What's her BCS like?

I'm not too hot on 'd scoring' dept but she's probably 3... Good grass last back end and good silage.... Cows and heifirs went a bit fat... I'll have to just try something else in d dry period. Someone suggested Stockholm tar..

Future Farmer

You could try tying a tight ligature around it, has she many?

feckin day gone again!!

Future Farmer wrote: »

You could try tying a tight ligature around it, has she many?

Front teats v bad... Just a few on rear... Never had them before. Don't know how she got them. Think takin one of them off in d back end and get a vaccine for her may be an option..

thegreatgonzo

I met a farmer recently who said this stockholm tar mixture he was using worked after only a few times of rubbing it on the wart. A lot of our clients get us to send off for a wart vaccine and they seem to work although they have to repeat the vaccine a few times I think.

solorpower

earlier this year I had a neighbour helping me de-horn a couple of cattle. one of the heifers had a number of warts on her face and he picked some of them off with his hand and then put them into a bolus gun and put them down the heifers throat.
at the the time i thought he had lost his marbles but he explain that it would help he build up immunity to warts!!!

a few months later she has only one wart on her face and this too is shrinking!

the guy who did it is one of the best cattle men in the country and knows his stuff.

I see no reason why it would not work for warts on a cows teats too.

you could try this as it will cost nothing.

barryoc1

I have a cow that is on her second season milking. She has a **** load of warts, mainly on 1 tit. When she was a heifer i thought it would be an issue but she was quiet and didnt seem to bother her with the clusters going on. She still has 1 tit really bad, so much so that the cluster will only just about go on over the warts. She always milks fine and they never seem to bother her. They havent spread to any other cow. The only time they bleed a little is when she is dirty and i wash her a bit too much. So i wouldnt be too worried bout the warts if i were you.