Re: Advice for pinkeye in cattle?
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I am not trying to argue but not everyone has easy access to a vet. I was reading in Acres USA (Farming magazine) about somebody that had to get out of raising sheep. This sheep farmer could not get a vet to come out to treat his sheep. There's a shortage of large animal vets that treat farm animals in certain areas of the USA.
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Re: Advice for pinkeye in cattle?
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We treated our sheep with pink eye ...with straight penicillin in the eye...think eye drops
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Re: Advice for pinkeye in cattle?
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06/13/19 08:24 PM
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Yes sir
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Please don't treat with salt. Call your vet. There is a vaccine available. Crumbles and feed antibiotics require a VFD not a prescription. Same thing in this part of the world
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Re: Advice for pinkeye in cattle?
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06/13/19 08:27 PM
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Yes sir
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Please don't treat with salt. Call your vet. There is a vaccine available. Crumbles and feed antibiotics require a VFD not a prescription. And anyone who calls the vet over pinkeye is a hobby farmer or amateur
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Re: Advice for pinkeye in cattle?
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White face or bronco faced? Need color and pigment around the eyes We AI for club calves, so we have all kinds of markings. What does bronco faced mean? We've been raising cattle for over 40 years and not had this kind of trouble. We keep Purina mineral out free choice. We've done nothing different. We had a rough, muddy, wet winter. The pasture they have been in the last few weeks has high grass, but nothing unusual from what we normally do. Typically we will get a couple cases a year out of 40 calves. This year is being rough.
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Re: Advice for pinkeye in cattle?
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Please don't treat with salt. Call your vet. There is a vaccine available. Crumbles and feed antibiotics require a VFD not a prescription. And anyone who calls the vet over pinkeye is a hobby farmer or amateur Yeah, you're right. Probably best to just to ask on the internet instead of call your vet who will help you with the problem and help you prevent it in the future. Good advise.
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Re: Advice for pinkeye in cattle?
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Baby calves a lot of times will get it first, ma's tail whips them in the eye while they are eating. Next in line many times are male calves that are following cows in heat. I think flies are the main problem with full size cows. Once you get it you will have it again, but I think maybe most or all of them carry the bacteria but may never get an infection. Once a cow gets it once guys will tell you she won't get it again, that's baloney. Seven different strains, that's part of the problem with vaccines they don't cover every strain.
Calves that get it and get bad enough to lose vision, many times will go backwards or go forward slowly. My best advice is to treat it with best available method, that gives quickest and best results. It gets worse in a hurry, a watery eye or a little haze is much much easier to handle than the same eye a week later is going to be.
Spoker get a vet to show you how to give eyelid injection, better still if he leaves you enough medicine to keep doing them yourself. Big difference between that method and just a blast of la200 in the neck. If you can handle them you could use other topicals, but the injection works continually for multiple days which is why it works so well.
The salt cure is based on salt being an antibiotic which it is, but there are multiple drugs you can use topical that are way better.
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Re: Advice for pinkeye in cattle?
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06/13/19 11:52 PM
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Yes sir
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Yeah, you're right. Probably best to just to ask on the internet instead of call your vet who will help you with the problem and help you prevent it in the future. Good advise.[/quote] Its probably the cheapest and easiest thing to treat your cattle will get. I've treated more myself than a lot of vets will treat in there life time. LA 200 and it's that easy. My bosses brother is a Vet and they tried everything they could to both figure out what was causing and to stop it from happening. Went as far as have their own vaccine made. Even tried giving three different vaccines at the same. Accept it and treat with LA 200 and go on is what they got out of 2 years of trying. I had 3 years in a row I've treated over 100 a year. So u bet it's good advise.
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Re: Advice for pinkeye in cattle?
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Please don't treat with salt. Call your vet. There is a vaccine available. Crumbles and feed antibiotics require a VFD not a prescription. And anyone who calls the vet over pinkeye is a hobby farmer or amateur Well thank you for calling me a hobby farming amateur... We milk over 700 head on a rotational grazing system and recently called the vet for pinkeye. It was not responding to penicillin in the eye lid or LA200. Its not always "that easy". They sent samples to Cornell for analysis as the Vet is at a loss also. If you are at a loss as to what to do call a vet if needed and don't worry about what Yes sir says.
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Re: Advice for pinkeye in cattle?
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Over the years I have treated thousands of bad eyes. Currently we use LA200 or any long lasting Oxy product in the muscle, and 1cc of Resflor gold in the eye. Pen or LA in the eye is good, but the Resflor gold has a anti-inflammatory in it that really helps. Keeping a Chlorotetracycline product in their feed or mineral really helps. They changed all the FDA rules a few years ago on feeding it so ask your vet on that one. Good luck.
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