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