HELP

[Silent Steve]

I have encountered a problem i haven't seen before with about two months till my first jackpot show. One of my steers had, what looks to me like a 'wart cluster' (i don't know if thats what its called) i hadn't noticed cause of his hair but i ran my hand down his top and felt a bunch of lumps going from just under his shoulders to his mid back. when i sprayed water on it his hair and i think skin started sliding off so I rubbed it with the tip of the hose andeverything just started peeling off. Since all my shows are slick shows im not too worried about hair but the naked-raw looking back worries me and chances of it gowning back,if in fact it is a fungus. Anyone have any ideas or should i just take him to a vet. so far all ive done is spray some fungi remover and iodine.

Thanks in advance,
Steve

 

[bcosu]

it sounds like you have rain rot. i had the same problem on a steer a couple years ago. he never had good hair but had a decent amount so you never really saw it. he got it in december though when i wasn't able to wash for a few days at a time. anyways, i used the medicated main n tail shampoo and it seemed to knock it out very quickly. i also used iodine as well and together it was cleared up within a few days. i am not sure if it helps but i did this as well, i scraped all the fungus off because it did not seem to hurt him and that might allow the medicine to penetrate faster.

 

[Silent Steve]

it sounds like you have rain rot. i had the same problem on a steer a couple years ago. he never had good hair but had a decent amount so you never really saw it. he got it in december though when i wasn't able to wash for a few days at a time. anyways, i used the medicated main n tail shampoo and it seemed to knock it out very quickly. i also used iodine as well and together it was cleared up within a few days. i am not sure if it helps but i did this as well, i scraped all the fungus off because it did not seem to hurt him and that might allow the medicine to penetrate faster.

thanks cbc I've already scrapped the fungus off. ill try out that shampoo.

thank you.

im all ears for more suggestions.

 

[Diamond]

I had this happen with a show heifer I purchessed, I used a horse product made by equis called coat rebuilder and it cleared the problem in less then two weeks, awsome stuff. it comes in a small flat container, not in a shampoo looking bottle, they make two products and the one in the shampoo lokking bottle stinks.