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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 1435899" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>Don't feel guilty about not checking cows every day. Real Ranchers who make their living raising cattle don't have time to look at every cow every day. They are usually running 100's or thousands of animals in multiple locations. The cattle are checked as often as is practical, usually when it is time to move them to new pasture. </p><p></p><p>I would bet your bull will get back at least partial vision. I have had plenty of eyes turn completely white and sometimes get so bad that they poke out like a cone with the middle draining yellow goop. Some of these have ended up with eyes that are permanently cloudy in the middle, but I have never had one lose the eye or go completely blind. Checking cows every day does not always help. One of my worse cases I spotted the day after I had run every cow thru the chutes checking and treating eyes. I must have missed that the eye was weeping the day before and by the next afternoon her eye was completely white.</p><p></p><p>We battle Pinkeye most years. About every 4 or 5 years it will hit close to 100% of the calves. The older cows are less affected. I assume they have some immunity. The worst years are usually followed by a few good years. We are very aggressive about controlling flies. We use Fly salt, pour-on repellents, ear-tags, dust bags, but we still have problems. Our local Farmers Coop gave me a Spray bottle of Vetrimycin to do a test on its effectiveness a few years ago when we had about 40 calves with weepy eyes to treat. We sprayed it in the eyes of half and left the rest as a control. We also gave a shot of LA300 to the worse calves. There was no noticeable difference between the two groups. We had to pull in about the same number of calves from each group and give them LA300 a few days later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 1435899, member: 9933"] Don't feel guilty about not checking cows every day. Real Ranchers who make their living raising cattle don't have time to look at every cow every day. They are usually running 100's or thousands of animals in multiple locations. The cattle are checked as often as is practical, usually when it is time to move them to new pasture. I would bet your bull will get back at least partial vision. I have had plenty of eyes turn completely white and sometimes get so bad that they poke out like a cone with the middle draining yellow goop. Some of these have ended up with eyes that are permanently cloudy in the middle, but I have never had one lose the eye or go completely blind. Checking cows every day does not always help. One of my worse cases I spotted the day after I had run every cow thru the chutes checking and treating eyes. I must have missed that the eye was weeping the day before and by the next afternoon her eye was completely white. We battle Pinkeye most years. About every 4 or 5 years it will hit close to 100% of the calves. The older cows are less affected. I assume they have some immunity. The worst years are usually followed by a few good years. We are very aggressive about controlling flies. We use Fly salt, pour-on repellents, ear-tags, dust bags, but we still have problems. Our local Farmers Coop gave me a Spray bottle of Vetrimycin to do a test on its effectiveness a few years ago when we had about 40 calves with weepy eyes to treat. We sprayed it in the eyes of half and left the rest as a control. We also gave a shot of LA300 to the worse calves. There was no noticeable difference between the two groups. We had to pull in about the same number of calves from each group and give them LA300 a few days later. [/QUOTE]
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