Calf with sore/cuts

tellmeabit

Hi all. Feed a neighbours animals this morning and spotted one calf with raw looking sores. Sprayed with iodine. But he said that they were there a few weeks. Think it's from the concrete floor in shed. But calfs have a straw area for themselves. Advised him to let that calf out to field. Anyone ever seen anything like it before ? Other calves are ok.

Kovu

Could they be sores from rubbing himself off bars/gates etc? Lice/mange could be a factor if so. Only sores I ever seen on cattle from concrete were thin animals with no flesh to pad their bones when lying down.

tellmeabit

struggling with uploading the images there, but should get them up in a min. thanks

tellmeabit

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Kovu

Oh! Yea that looks like the concrete alright, they're all at contact points with the floor. Strange that he's the only one with it but you're right to tell him to put him out, that won't heal inside and is at risk of infection.

tellmeabit

I see some puss coming from one of them, and she isn't thriving like the others.

thanks,,

dunlopwellies

We had similar in a calf a few years back. The cause was too slippery of concrete floors and as the calf got up and down the constant rubbing and the result was exactly the same. He got joint ill and eventually died.
I would clean and treat wounds, injectet for joint ill too and put him out too.

tellmeabit

Joint I'll?, joins swell up? Her back knees looking big enough.

howdee

If they were mine they would be in a field asap, it's raw from the concrete and they look fairly painful.

tellmeabit

I left her and mother out. Will have to see what neighbour says when he gets back tomorrow. Thanks all.

dunlopwellies

tellmeabit wrote: »

Joint I'll?, joins swell up? Her back knees looking big enough.

That's it exactly. I don't recall the treatment, possibly norbritton or something along those lines. Might be worth a call to the vet whenever the man gets back.