Geoffreywrc
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Any ideas on how to treat cattle with ringworm or if it can be treated when housed at winter time.
Ringworm on cattle/ bullocks
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betweenthelines
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Just leave it.
After winter clean all walls etc it lives in buildings and reinfection next year. Use products in feed to encourage Exelent skin condition. There is or used to be fulling of the vet but it most likely have a meat with hold time.
Little squeak
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In the past I have tried cleaning and disinfecting all the buildings at considerable expence, it didn't work, last year I gave the cattle access to mollased mineral buckets and had no ringworm for the first time in years. When I looked what they actually contained it did list vitamin D which is the same as you absorb through you skin from sunlight this MAY be something to do with why cattle loose the ringworm in summer and why my cattle currently haven't got it and didn't get it last winter. I will have to see if ringworm occurs in future years as I do intend to carry on with the mineral buckets. Needless to say this is NOT a sientific trial.
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Lincs Lass
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Back in the day ,when the store bullocks had gone to burger land ,,we spent spare days creosoting everything that was wood ,the crew yard gates ,all the feed tumbles and hay racks ,,all the stantions got bitumen ,the brick work was washed and disinfected ,,if any did develop ringworm next time round ,,they got put through the crush and the infected bits got brushed with creosote ,,it soon cured it
We actually have some hanging up from about 15 years ago, funnily enough in the shed where we have a bit of ringworm.
We have bulls in during the summer so it's never empty and it does seem to pass on to the next group so on the gates/feed barriers I reckon. Passed on to me a few weeks back as well!
Crosot would do the trick don't know about this new stuff now.
Maybe you need to replace it
At what cost!
muleman
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Nowt if your on tax credits and take your card to the chemists with you!
Lincs Lass
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The look on the pharmacist face when you say ,,Ive got ringworm on my bullocks ,,can I have some canestan cream please .
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Cowabunga
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For the first time in some years I had a batch of in-calf heifers get ringworm while out grazing last Summer. Now at the same farm a batch of young bulling heifers that were housed late November but did graze some of the fields the older cows did, late in the season, have varying degrees of ringworm.
The older batch were vaccinated in late July and have now all calved and show little sign of ever being infected. As far as I can tell they didn’t have ringworm while housed last Winter.
The bulling heifers had PRIDs today and we got ringworm vaccine for them today as well. They will be vaccinated after the New Year bank holiday and I expect them to be clear of infection within a month or so after the second dose. The hairless patches should be gone by March or so.
Good animal welfare costs. How much? I didn’t even ask. It’s more important to limit their discomfort, although I can’t actually tell that it causes them any discomfort, only assuming that it does. There’s also the human health and safety aspect of course and I don’t want anyone that handles them, including myself and the AI people and vets catching the infection.
The older batch were vaccinated in late July and have now all calved and show little sign of ever being infected. As far as I can tell they didn’t have ringworm while housed last Winter.
The bulling heifers had PRIDs today and we got ringworm vaccine for them today as well. They will be vaccinated after the New Year bank holiday and I expect them to be clear of infection within a month or so after the second dose. The hairless patches should be gone by March or so.
Good animal welfare costs. How much? I didn’t even ask. It’s more important to limit their discomfort, although I can’t actually tell that it causes them any discomfort, only assuming that it does. There’s also the human health and safety aspect of course and I don’t want anyone that handles them, including myself and the AI people and vets catching the infection.
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Never heard of that before ,Exelent.
muleman
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Its not good!
Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
I should mention that ringworm infection in humans on farms can be treated by topical application of thiabendazole which some farms might have in stock as a worming drench. It would probably work on cattle as well but I have no idea of its economics.
muleman
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How many mls do you need and can it be mixed in with your cup of tea or best dosed separately?
Cowabunga
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It’s a topical application and probably needs repeating every couple of days for two weeks or more, just like the azole-based creams available at the chemist.
The vaccine seems to be more convenient for cattle.
Thiabendazole is very commonly used as a dip for fruit preservation for human use and is ingested in small quantities by virtually everyone who eats fruit and some vegetables.