Scabs on teats

[supercow]

Called our vet and what starts as what looks like a blister on the teat then ends up a total scab and she won’t milk out, vet says it’s a form of herpes. We cream and spray with rapiderma spray as soon as we see it but we get nowhere with our treatments! The picture is the end product. Got a cow with similar symptoms as this heifer just tonight. Anyone got any remedies? Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is a heifer about 29 days in milk, worried they are getting it from the calving pen

 

[supercow]

We are stripping her leaving that quarter for a day or so with the hope it heals a bit

 

[coomoo]

Nightmare thing nothing to suggest other than service parlour to double check there isn’t undue stress on teats to allow it to get a hold?

 

[supercow]

It is a bit of a nightmare cos we are catching them early but still feels useless what we are doing cos nothing seems to work! Had to put a nose ring on the new cow tonight cos she kept licking the f Ing cream off!!!! They certainly keep u grounded

 

[supercow]

Had one heifer chew her whole tit off in the summer and that was with a nose spike!!!

 

[FarmerWasty]

Vacuum? Lime? Standing on each others teats? Chemical?

 

[Riggy]

Bovine herpes mamilitus. We just stop milking the affected quarter until it heals. Sometimes you can restart milking it again in the same lactation. No treatments seem to work well. youll definitely need to stop milking it to allow it to heal though.

 

[Blofeld]

Sovirax the cold sore cream worked for me, although it needs to be applyed when it's at the blister stage

 

[Spudley]

So is she licking the teats and causing the blisters?

If so, put a couple of tires around her neck so she can't reach around to get at herself.

 

[supercow]

So is she licking the teats and causing the blisters?

If so, put a couple of tires around her neck so she can't reach around to get at herself.

Never heard of that one!! The nose spike didn’t work with the heifer in the summer il try that if the cow doesn’t stop licking! Nah the blisters come first then it will be like an itch they have to scratch.

 

[supercow]

Sovirax the cold sore cream worked for me, although it needs to be applyed when it's at the blister stage

Really! Il be taking a trip to Tesco tomorrow! We moved onto sudacreme, I actually think that works better than the normal udder salve

 

[supercow]

Vacuum? Lime? Standing on each others teats? Chemical?

The parlours slightly overdue a service but it’s almost done now. We had limescale in the milk line and increased the amount of acid but I can’t imagine it’s that or we’d have more. Seems to come when under stress after calving

 

[Dead Rabbits]

We very occasionally get a case at calving. I’m told hemorrhoid cream can help once scabbing starts. But as suggested above the cold sore stuff if caught early might help. For some reason I’ve never had one go that severe

 

[Old apprentice]

I would sugest you put some antibiotic in with the creams that have been sugested. Used to have a small tub of tube antibiotic for cows that had damaged a teat it is not unknown to have a cow that has damaged a teat to dip the teat after every milking not to get mastitis.

 

[Headless chicken]

Used piles cream on one of the kids when they had nappy rash so bad they were screaming constantly. Stopped itchy almost instantly so maybe worth a go

 

[Spudley]

Nah the blisters come first then it will be like an itch they have to scratch.

I'm just thinking of that issue when heifers lick and lick for no apparent reason and in the end lick the teats right off. Hemorrhoid cream sounds like a very good idea.

 

[Surface Tension]

There's some suggestion that Povidine Iodine might help clear this up,

http://www.veterinaryworld.org/Vol....Treatment of Bovine Ulcerative Mammilitis.pdf

Available on ebay,

Click

 

[supercow]

Trip down to Tesco this afternoon for some heameroid cream and Zovirax. The later is seriously expensive I know which one is rather help! Hopefully see results. Thanks for everyone’s suggestions, the forum is great for a bit of help where anyone Iv asked is stumped!!!

 

[Morris Moss]

Thats what you need for that, you'll have to apply it twice a day and it'll take at least a month to get improvement, also you can't get it of a vet, you'll have to get a prescription from a doctor

 

[supercow]

I think the heameroid cream has definitely helped, the heifer I posted is a lot better, stopped milking the quarter and tubed her with synulox (she would definitely have taken mastitis) and used the cream. Keeping the teat canal from closing up is the bother but tubing and opening it up helps. The scab has fallen off and should heal up nicely. Stopping them licking it is crucial too.
Once again thanks for your input folks.