Digi on udders.

[Rascal]

Hi all.
Have some cows with what i presume is Digi on their udders. Does anybody know what is the best way to get rid of it?

Thanks.

TIm

 

[surprisefarmer]

Its a torture, I bought a few cows in that had it. I clean daily with Hibi scrub, dry thoroughly and then spray with terramycin or the purple foot spray, do this for for about 3 days. Afer that if i ever see the affected cows in the robot I will hit them with spray again. Has worked for most of my cases, or at least improved them dramatically.

 

[Mr Mackay]

We buy aspirin powder and Sudocrem - after tip from our vet (They get the digi usually in the cleft of the fore udder ,by tranferring it from their affected feet !
So if you have didi you will get cows with it !! The thing is , if its not treated will affect the milk vein by erosion and cows can bleed out and die ,or it will affect them by allowing infection into the bloodstream )

Mix some aspirin into a small pot of sudocrem ,and stir (it does not like mixing and can go a bit hard sometimes but just add a bit more Sudocrem in that case )
Smear it into any open sores and it will get rid after a few treatments (we tend to do them once a day if you can remember !!)
I dont like spraying under cows udders as it can end up with a trip to the dentist

 

[som farmer]

between us, and the vet, on a Saturday afternoon, we managed to stop a terminal didgi udder bleed, lots of cotton wool, plastic sheet, all held in place with baler twine, and inner tube to keep pressure on, she kept going, and went as an emergency casualty on the Monday ! the didgi was right in the udder cleft, and not enough solid to stitch together! another lesson learn't. now we keep an eye out for it, and use a/b spray or purple spray,

 

[Mr Mackay]

between us, and the vet, on a Saturday afternoon, we managed to stop a terminal didgi udder bleed, lots of cotton wool, plastic sheet, all held in place with baler twine, and inner tube to keep pressure on, she kept going, and went as an emergency casualty on the Monday ! the didgi was right in the udder cleft, and not enough solid to stitch together! another lesson learn't. now we keep an eye out for it, and use a/b spray or purple spray,

Yes , we had one like that but she died

 

[Blue.]

Spray daily with blue spray before milking (the udder is still tight) a week and of this she should be cleared up.

 

[Llmmm]

Its a torture, I bought a few cows in that had it. I clean daily with Hibi scrub, dry thoroughly and then spray with terramycin or the purple foot spray, do this for for about 3 days. Afer that if i ever see the affected cows in the robot I will hit them with spray again. Has worked for most of my cases, or at least improved them dramatically.

Got some cows doing same got milk tested for antibiotic just in case all come back positive be carefull

 

[WillM]

Naval Dip iodine after scrubbed clean every milking.

Tylosin Sulphate powder mixed with some Vaseline on a dry cow works well too. Too nervous to use Tylosin on a milker.

 

[Fergieman]

Would it not be better to cure/treat the digi in the foot before it gets on the udder?

Tin hat on, I Know!

 

[WillM]

Only enough.... I had more a number of cows with digi on the Udder and never had a case digi on the feet with 800 milkers.

I sometimes think the sand is an irritant and cows on sand are more prone to digi on the Udder compared to other bedding materials.

 

[jimmer]

But, if you are footbathing then you are treating the issue regularly, the infection gets onto udder and festers away for a month before it breaks out

 

[som farmer]

I think once you have digi, is nigh on impossible to get rid. We first had it in the late 80's, and we hadn't bought a cow in for at least 5 yrs, bulls never ran with the cows, so how did we get it ? The udder digi, as I quoted, was the first case we had seen, and it was right up in the udder cleft, and very difficult to see !! we now watch out for it !!!!, but very few cases.

 

[Blue.]

The cow doesn’t need to have digi on its own feet to get it,mainly because its environmental,I find it’s early lactation when the udder is taught when they come down with it.

I’ll see 4 or 5 with it in a year,wiping cows before milking is the time you find it,also a bad case you’ll smell it.

 

[Homesy]

We buy aspirin powder and Sudocrem - after tip from our vet (They get the digi usually in the cleft of the fore udder ,by tranferring it from their affected feet !
So if you have didi you will get cows with it !! The thing is , if its not treated will affect the milk vein by erosion and cows can bleed out and die ,or it will affect them by allowing infection into the bloodstream )

Mix some aspirin into a small pot of sudocrem ,and stir (it does not like mixing and can go a bit hard sometimes but just add a bit more Sudocrem in that case )
Smear it into any open sores and it will get rid after a few treatments (we tend to do them once a day if you can remember !!)
I dont like spraying under cows udders as it can end up with a trip to the dentist

Where do you get the aspirin powder from ?.

 

[Mr Mackay]

Where do you get the aspirin powder from ?.

I will have a peep at the container - from our vet I think. We were put off antibiotic spray because of the milk vein , and Lyncosin powder is a no no now , (we put that with salve before )
I have an old car mirror on a stick ,about a foot long and a little headtorch . Put the mirror under the cow and shine the torch on mirror till you get a really good look at the cleft on the cow

 

[Agrifool]

My vet says they are easiest treated in a tip over crush, mush safer.

 

[Mr Mackay]

My vet says they are easiest treated in a tip over crush, mush safer.

Fair enough , but if you grab the tail and talk to them ,you can easily reach the cleft from between the back legs (we back leg milk so they are used to that ) As I say , spraying stuff on it can be a bit more dicey , you can t see where its going either . But with a gob of mix on your rubber glove and fingers ,you can feel for the area you are looking for ,plus ,it wont just come off .