Bull with growth/wart over his eye

[Whitepeak]

We have a young bull, 12mths old, with a growth or a wart over his eye. It's not on his eyelid but more like just under his eyebrow. Vet had a look at it a month ago and said it was a wart but wasn't effecting his eye and he could take it off of we wanted. It's now grown quite a lot since and is starting to irritate him. Someone else has said its excessive scar tissue so could grow back.
We have shown the bull and on his only two times out got a reserve junior and a male champion. We were planning on selling him next spring at a society sale (unless we sold him privately before hand). So my question is do we take the growth off and keep him until spring or beef him in the near future?

 

[Henarar]

make it bleed

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Just get the vet to remove it

 

[Davy_g]

Purely from a buyers point of view it may put some folk off, whilst it should not effect his performance it might annoy him.

If you had the choice between 2 bulls and they were similar in every way and the same price, you would buy the one without the growth.
I would definitely try and remove it rather than beef him though - taking vets advice.

Strange looking growth.

 

[M-J-G]

If he's a good bull with no other fault, remove it and give him a chance to heal before spring.

 

[Stephen E]

I have used a lamb ring on warts on cattle bellies with good results, as long as they are big enough for the ring to,constrict the blood flow.

 

[Doc]

Wart. Chop it off, 5 minute job.

 

[Sir loin]

put a lamb ring on

 

[Henarar]

pull it about and make it bleed [sometimes you can pull them off] it makes the animal make immunity to it instead of excepting it and it will fall off in time, not a nice job but there you go

 

[Whitepeak]

Thanks for all the replies, we'll ring the vet tomorrow to have it removed.
We've been reluctant to try the other methods mentioned due to it being so close to his eye and also the risk of flies on the wound at this time of year.
@Davy_g we definitely wouldn't have sold him for breeding with the wart

 

[Whitepeak]

Just an update on the bull. We tied a piece of string tightly around the base of the wart. After a few days we tightened the string then after about a week it had gone really manky and almost rotten so we pulled it off and a root came with it. We left it for a few weeks to fully heal over but he'd got another forming next to the first so we did the same as the first but this one came away as dad was putting the string on. Also any tiny ones elsewhere on his body have also disappeared.
So it looks like he won't be made into burgers just yet after all

 

[Henarar]

yep once you upset them they all go

 

[Whitepeak]

yep once you upset them they all go

We're amazed at how well they've disappeared, to look at him you would never know he's had them.

 

[choochter]

this lad has lots of warts on his face and neck, some quite big, noticed one bleeding today as they were walking past to get weighed, I'm not worried about them, but how long do you think it would take for them to disappear @Henarar

 

[Henarar]

this lad has lots of warts on his face and neck, some quite big, noticed one bleeding today as they were walking past to get weighed, I'm not worried about them, but how long do you think it would take for them to disappear @Henarar

We usually pull several off and they go in a month or so