Pearl

restive

I have a Bullock with a pearl in his eye. What is best treatment nowadays?

amacca

restive wrote: »

I have a Bullock with a pearl in his eye. What is best treatment nowadays?

Do you mean a far on infection like pink eye?

If so Ive always found a couple of opticlox syringes administered over a couple of weeks and patience done tge trick. Its a pain retreating them every 4 or 5 days though. One the eye stops streaming tgeyre usually on the mend.

Unusual this time of year...i used get it with calves in long grass in summer time when lots of flies around.

restive

amacca wrote: »

Do you mean a far on infection like pink eye?

If so Ive always found a couple of opticlox syringes administered over a couple of weeks and patience done tge trick. Its a pain retreating them every 4 or 5 days though. One the eye stops streaming tgeyre usually on the mend.

Unusual this time of year...i used get it with calves in long grass in summer time when lots of flies around.

Not red eye. Just a white pearl in the middle of the eye. My uncle used to say that they got it from pushing their heads into the silage and consequently poking themselves in the eye with stems of silage.

Lady Haywire

Sound like what I call a feather in the eye. We normally get the animal eating at the barrier, then squirt antibiotic straight into the eye from a syringe a few feet away. Do that over a few days and should clear up.

bogman_bass

Get him in the headgate and opticlox into the eye. It’s made of the job

kollegeknight

We call that peral eye- your local vets office should have a tube of antibiotics for it

Mushy06

if the eye is still seeping then infection is still active then you need to go with opticlox. if eye is dry it could be a case the animal had it before and infiection is clear. The "pearl" will remain for a very very long time after. i had it here before where animal had pearl in eye till they left the yard.

Farmer

restive wrote: »

Not red eye. Just a white pearl in the middle of the eye. My uncle used to say that they got it from pushing their heads into the silage and consequently poking themselves in the eye with stems of silage.

....and that's why I never feed ration on top of silage as they chase it to the bottom through the silage. Got plagued one year with it but have had very little bother since I stopped doing it

KatyMac

I had a cow and then a couple of days later her calf with pearl eye. The cow cleared up quickly with one dose to the eye, but the calf was harder to clear up. Had to get injections (in all when through 4) and several applications to eye. Vet said it was probably the silage in the ring feeder. Never had it before this time of the year. The calf still has a white spot in the middle of his eye and I'm assuming it is there for the rest of his life. He's not blind on that side, so it could be worse.

wiggy123

had young calf same, happened back end of year-stemmy grass to blame, no ways getting her caught(laziness on my part) she was doing proorly-so didn't reg her(she is pb angus)he mum is 15 years old-for the chop asap... but calf doing good-on grass still+getting meal... eye is blind-just a quick(silly) question.it will never come good.... had a cow 2 years back-eye was running/grey looking--I did nought to it-she never loss eye--its prefect since

patsy_mccabe

Years ago when I started in suckling, I was at marts buying heifers. Spotted this fine simm x Lim heifer in the pens, but she had a pearl in her eye from pink eye.
Wrote down her number and 'pink eye' written beside it so I wouldn't bid on her. Ended up buying her then by accident. Turned out to be the best cow I have. So morale of the story, it does them no harm apart from looking unsightly.

KatyMac

It really doesn't make any difference to them as long as it is cured and no longer teary or sore.

restive

Just to update I went to the vet for a tube and he gave Oxytetracycline, 40cc into the hip.

Bass Reeves

If it gets to pearl eye and there is no weeping you are more than likely ok. There are IMO two forms of it and lads keep treating it beyond the need to. If the dot is a soft white blob like a the head on a soft pimple with weeping you need to treat it. I would never throw salt in an animals eye.

Oxytetracycline is a generic name for a injection (blue allymicin spray contains it as well used for sheep foot infections ). It all depends on when you spot it. IF you get it early enough as a tear on the eye in a shed the blue spray will work applied at the feed barrier. But if it develops, as in the eyes weep you need to remove the animal from the pen especially if feeding ration as it spreads on contact. More than likly you will have to remove more than one. If you remove an animal use eye tubes, oxytetracycline ones, dry cow tubes or mastitis tubes will all work, but it takes time to heal 10 days to two weeks. Get the eye tube under the the upper eye lid. When it dry's up the infection stage has passed.

It is all about time in the healing process. Pen&streap will sprayed into the eye will also work if you have a bottle in hand but it is not as effective as eye tubes.

greysides

Mod: Folks, I've removed a pair of posts I regarded as' beyond the pale' in regards to proper justifiable treatment. That they seem to work isn't being being questioned but the suggestions go beyond the scope of what's allowed in the Charter.

Mild infections will cure themselves.

Very damaged looking eyes can over time become very close to normal again. But not all of them. I'd suggest sustained early topical treatment, to ensure a quick recovery from pain and prevent the development of antimicrobial resistance, while it's still possible.

Once it goes deep injectable antibiotics are the only option.

Base price

On the few occasions when our stock got pink eye/pearl eye in the past we have used a duocycline/dexmeth injection in the upper and lower eyelids.
Hopefully your Vet will advise...