dehorn debacle

[MarkM]

I purchased some weaned steers last fall including one that had been recently dehorned. The dehorn(vet performed) was very deep and the owner said that one had been infested with flies but that he had killed them with a pyrehtrin spray. The hole in the stumps was about the size of your little finger.

One stump has never healed/sealed and now has flies again. What to do? The other side has healed.

 

[greybeard]

Probably used a Barnes dehorner on them, which is why I don't like them much. A steer......prices have gone up since last fall...
If it doesn't look like it's going to heal over at all, I'd get rid of the maggots/flies and daub it up good with pine tar--then haul it to the salebarn, or send it to freezer camp. Fly season is just starting here, so it's going to get worse pretty quick.

 

[jerry27150]

spray some screw worm spray into it for a couple of days, then put some coppertox on it the third day

 

[MarkM]

Thanks guys,

greybeard, I hate to send him to the salebarn, I tend to want to fix everything and he is not big enough yet for freezer camp.

Jerry, How generously would I apply the coppertox?

 

[Texas PaPaw]

How about filling the hole with the minimally expanding foam to fill it up and keep bugs out. When filled with the foam, use salebarn tag glue and glue on a piece of cloth cut out of denim jeans over the hole. The cloth will come off in a few weeks and the foam will have hardened. Wouldn't over do it with the foam, just enough to fill the hole. Wouldn't use the triple expanding foam just the minimally expanding.

Kind of a wild idea but hopefully will plug the hole and allow it to scab/hair over.

 

[bird dog]

Good idea Brock. I thought kill all the bugs and fill it with caulk

 

[Lucky_P]

Really? Honestly? Please. NO!!
Don't go pumping expandable foam into a body cavity.

If it hasn't closed over yet, you're just gonna have to deal with flies/maggots until it does.
I suppose you could clean it up good and glue a patch over it - but if the maggots get under your patch, you won't see 'em.

 

[Aaron]

Really? Honestly? Please. NO!!
Don't go pumping expandable foam into a body cavity.

If it hasn't closed over yet, you're just gonna have to deal with flies/maggots until it does.
I suppose you could clean it up good and glue a patch over it - but if the maggots get under your patch, you won't see 'em.

X2. Ship the animal as is before you start doing things like that.


Flush any maggots out with hydrogen peroxide and cover with pine tar. If you keep it, put under cover so flies can't get to it until it heals over. If not, ship it.

 

[Bez__]

Really? Honestly? Please. NO!!
Don't go pumping expandable foam into a body cavity.

If it hasn't closed over yet, you're just gonna have to deal with flies/maggots until it does.
I suppose you could clean it up good and glue a patch over it - but if the maggots get under your patch, you won't see 'em.

Lucky,

I have been watching this and decided I would not respond unless you did.

And I will not be as politically correct as my northern neighbour Aaron.

Slap me if you like folks folks but I do not give a dam

This thread is a perfect example why some people should not be allowed to own animals - we all get bad names because of folks who do these type of things.

Now go and ask the people who eat your beef if they would continue to do so if they found out about this assinine problem created by someone who probably did a hack job on dehorning - and the assine solutions presented.

Finally - no matter what anyone tells you - unless you see the actual receipt - who was it that REALLY did the job?

I shake my frigging head .........

Bez

 

[greybeard]

what would you do Bez?

 

[jerry27150]

apply coppertox liberally til it runs off

 

[highgrit]

Wash it out good with bleach and then put Coppertox on the wound. Blu-Kote spray works good also.
Yes what would you do Bez?