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Heifer with growth's on foot

  • 01-07-2020 11:27pm
    #1
    jeffrey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭


    Any idea what this is or how to treat it. Asked a vet who is doing relief work for my regular vet, her answer was she had never seen it before & maybe try burnt engine oil on it. The heifer is approx 15 months old & otherwise healthy.


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  • #2
    Anto_Meath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Anto_Meath


    I had a heifer a few years ago that had a massive wart on her head, vet wasn't to concerned about it, but the flies were busy at it. I got this spray from Argi Direct (https://www.agridirect.ie/product/bactocyde-500ml2) and after applying it 3/ 4 times over a month or so it disappeared. Might work for you.


  • #3
    forgottenhills
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 441 ✭✭forgottenhills


    jeffrey wrote: »
    Any idea what this is or how to treat it. Asked a vet who is doing relief work for my regular vet, her answer was she had never seen it before & maybe try burnt engine oil on it. The heifer is approx 15 months old & otherwise healthy.

    Isn't this what used to be called "angleberries" i.e an outbreak of some sort of cattle warts? I heard of a farmer of many years ago who bizarrely applied mustard to an animal with these on its neck. I assume that there is a more scientific treatment available!

    I'd be concerned about a vet who hadn't heard of cattle warts (I imagine descriptions of these are in veterinary manuals) or was too lazy to spend a minute to google it.


  • #4
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    Years ago, my Dad was advised by the Vet to apply castor oil to warts on a dairy cow.


  • #5
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Lime Tree Farm wrote: »
    Years ago, my Dad was advised by the Vet to apply castor oil to warts on a dairy cow.


    Big difference between burnt oil and castor oil.

    Surely a vet should know.

    Our vets office/animal shop is great, they know treatments even without vet around.


  • #6
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    Big difference between burnt oil and castor oil.

    Surely a vet should know.

    Our vets office/animal shop is great, they know treatments even without vet around.

    That Vet is part of my childhood memories, he was highly regarded by my parents. I thought he was ancient, jolly with a big bushy moustache, wearing check tweeds. I looked up his obituary just now to see that he was 68 when he died.


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