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estspx

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Have a good heifer with a group of warts that began formaing around her eye.  Sugestions on treatments?
 

willow

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estspx said:
Have a good heifer with a group of warts that began formaing around her eye.  Sugestions on treatments?

If it is a single wart, which yours doesn't sound like it is, you can rip a single wart off it will bleed and then usually you are good to go.  However, if it is the cauliflower, or cluster kind of warts I really don't know the best way to treat them.  We had a steer that got the cluster kind in his ear last year and we did our best to rip of the bigger more singular ones and they eventually all went away.  The eye seems like a pretty sensitive location.  Good luck.
 

PinkOil Princess

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I've had a lot of trouble with warts and sometimes ripping off warts doesn't get the whole growth and you won't want to rip off anything around the eye anyway. A wart product I swear by it's a "warts off" creams by Sullivan supply. If you apply it morning and night and cover the warts with it they will burn off in the corse of a week and will get the whole growth not just half as ripping them off sometimes does. Good luck!
 

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Are you showing this heifer? If not they'll go away on their own & she'll be immune from getting warts later on in her life.
 

obie105

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CAB said:
Are you showing this heifer? If not they'll go away on their own & she'll be immune from getting warts later on in her life.


Not always. One of my first steers pry 15 years ago got warts around his poll they spread down on his face we let them go for awhile because thats what the vet said to do. Eventually they were so bad the vet came out and removed some they came back worse the next time.  The vet told us
To take some sand paper and file on them every night. No dice. At this point it was so bad the vet did a surgery to remove a huge cluster. They still came back. We ended up just shipping him warts and all. When I am at my parents house this weekend I will have to find the pictures to put on here. It was insane and I have never seen anything like it since.

That being said we have had good luck ripping off single warts no matter where they are at. Sometimes we might use the clippers and get the top of them ripped open and bleeding they seem to go away.
 

korytm

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If you can get your nail right under the wart you should be able to just pop it right out.
We had someone show us this last year and it works great!!
Barely bleeds at all.
 

CAB

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obie105 said:
CAB said:
Are you showing this heifer? If not they'll go away on their own & she'll be immune from getting warts later on in her life.


Not always. One of my first steers pry 15 years ago got warts around his poll they spread down on his face we let them go for awhile because thats what the vet said to do. Eventually they were so bad the vet came out and removed some they came back worse the next time.  The vet told us
To take some sand paper and file on them every night. No dice. At this point it was so bad the vet did a surgery to remove a huge cluster. They still came back. We ended up just shipping him warts and all. When I am at my parents house this weekend I will have to find the pictures to put on here. It was insane and I have never seen anything like it since.

That being said we have had good luck ripping off single warts no matter where they are at. Sometimes we might use the clippers and get the top of them ripped open and bleeding they seem to go away.
If you would have kept your steer for a year, the next yr. they would have been gone and he would have immunity built up. That's why I asked if it was a show animal. You would need to address the issue if it were a show animal. Warts are caused by a virus that's why you can't take an animal with warts to a show. They are contagious and that is also why cattle become immune to them after they have once had warts.
 

obie105

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What was weird is the heifer and 2 other steers with him never got a single wart. I did a ton of research after the fact on warts and causes. I dont think these would have ever went away. They got to the point it went from his poll back 6 inches solid and down on both sides of his neck. Not saying that it wouldnt work but I think its a case by case basis. Wish I had the pictures of him here. I was just thinking about it the other day and was going to ask on here if anyone had seen something that bad before. I know our vet was baffled when we couldnt get rid of them.
 

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Find a suitably sized wart and crush it with a pair of fencing pliers.  Don't pull it off but make sure that it is mangled and bleeds.  The other warts will drop off shortly thereafter!  Results guaranteed!
 

willow

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PinkOil Princess said:
I've had a lot of trouble with warts and sometimes ripping off warts doesn't get the whole growth and you won't want to rip off anything around the eye anyway. A wart product I swear by it's a "warts off" creams by Sullivan supply. If you apply it morning and night and cover the warts with it they will burn off in the corse of a week and will get the whole growth not just half as ripping them off sometimes does. Good luck!

We have had very good luck with the ripping off process.  Yes, I probably would be very careful with any treatment around the eye including the rip off method and especially an acid that EATS THE WARTS OFF.
 

PinkOil Princess

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I've used warts off around the eye and haven't experienced any problems. I find it's the easiest method actually. So long as you are careful when applying it, it has worked flawlessly for me for a long time. I do find success ripping off warts as well however find it more effective and easier to use warts off.
 

obie105

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I just remembered something the neighbor used... he did the human wart freeze off compound on very small warts around the face on his.
 
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