Ring Worm??

[Double R Ranch]

This doesn't look like ringworm to me either. It does look like after our horses or cattle are bit by biting flies or stung by hornets.

 

[Mark Reynolds]

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=0281...sZXMvdXJ0aWNhcmlhLWFuZC1hbmdpb2VkZW1hLw&ntb=1
https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=ce69...G9kYXkuY29tL3RocmVhZHMvaGl2ZXMuMjA1ODEv&ntb=1
I would have doubts about ringworm as it appeared widespread over the whole body of the whole animal (2 animals, right?) overnight. I don't really have any good ideas but hives in people can appear suddenly and cover the whole body. So I googled hives in cattle and found these. I apparently didn't have to go very far for the 2nd one listed here.

 

[Chuckie]

My money is on a dermatophylus infection occuring where the skin is broken by fly bites.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure...sions-of-dermatophilosis-arrow_fig1_266049601
Ken

Thanks Ken. I think he may need to load them up and take them to the vet. Or have him come to the farm.

 

[kenny thomas]

The OP mentioned thin hair on the cattle. My vet/daughter had a call to look at some calves that had an odd skin condition. Covered in little spots of irritated skin. Insect bites? Allergic reactions to plants or chemical or something they ate? Screwworm/maggots? Only on the young calves. Those calves were sired by a senepol bull. Senepol have sparse hair and thin skin. After looking around, she noticed that the calves had to go through a patch of spiny amaranth (a pigweed) to get to the good grazing. The pigweed was tall and thick. The stickers on the pigweed were irritating the skin. Owner mowed the pigweed and the problem went away.

Simme, is it possible for it to be fire ants on the thin skin cows? That woukd explain the number of bumps and it happening overnight

 

[simme]

Simme, is it possible for it to be fire ants on the thin skin cows? That woukd explain the number of bumps and it happening overnight

Maybe, not sure. I have plenty of fire ants, but don't recall any reactions on any of my cows.

 

[kenny thomas]

Maybe, not sure. I have plenty of fire ants, but don't recall any reactions on any of my cows.

None of yours have hair that short.

 

[wbvs58]

Thanks Ken. I think he may need to load them up and take them to the vet. Or have him come to the farm.

It should be fairly self limiting, scabs pulled away and lime sulphur scrubbed into it and and over the rest of the body and pennicillin can help too as it is a bit like a cross between bacteria and fungi from memory.

Ken

 

[Chuckie]

I never did come back and give the rest of the story. The cows did not lose hair in those areas. I think Kenny Thomas may have nailed it when he said fire ants. Just my guess. He said the lumps went away by the second day he was at the farm. It had warmed up a little bit, for a few to surface from a hill as some will come out when the sun is out and the temps rise in the 50's.

We did not have fire ants until a few years ago. I always heard about them, and was told they were in McNairy County around Selmer. The first hill I was was against the side of my horse barn. How did they get there? None in the pasture so they had to ride in on something.. Took a small glass bottle and caught a couple in the jar and got a magnifying glass to see if they had the two extra segments in between the abdomen and thorax.
I see pictures of them as red mostly, but these are black with a tinge of red.
First time I stepped on a small mound with short socks and shorts on; Immediately start slapping your leg as hard as you can and stomping. And repeat.....
Now I always have a bag of Fire Ant killer in the back seat of the truck in case I am at the other farm and see a hill. I take it everywhere I go once it warms up. I am surprised to see hills in pasture land and not being treated where people have cattle.

 

[Bum Steer]

Mites or warts?

 

[RDFF]

Glad that we don't have to deal with them up here in the frozen tundra! ;)

 

[Warren Allison]

As long as I raised cattle, never have seen this. I think it must be ringworm. Pour on Ivermectin is what I am reading that will kill it. Any other suggestions?

Ringworm is a fungus,, not a parasite. Treat it with a fungicide, not an insecticide or pesticide. But this doesn't look like ringworm..it looks more like bug bites.

 

[Chuckie]

Ringworm is a fungus,, not a parasite. Treat it with a fungicide, not an insecticide or pesticide. But this doesn't like ringworm..it looks more like bug bites.

Wonder who named a fungus, "Ring Worm?" :p

 

[wbvs58]

Wonder who named a fungus, "Ring Worm?" :p

On our clean skin the fungus starts in the center and works its way outward leaving a ring of active inflammation around the edge and the center then heals leaving clean skin. I think there was a myth from our grandmothers suggesting that it might be a worm burrying under the skin and we might have caught the worm from the dirty kid down the road who never got wormed.

Ken

 

[RDFF]

Wonder who named a fungus, "Ring Worm?" :p

Historical Context
The name has its roots in ancient medical terminology. Early physicians in ancient Greece and Rome observed the round, scaly patches on the skin and mistakenly believed they were caused by worms crawling under the skin.

Dr. Google knows everything!

 

[wbvs58]

Historical Context
The name has its roots in ancient medical terminology. Early physicians in ancient Greece and Rome observed the round, scaly patches on the skin and mistakenly believed they were caused by worms crawling under the skin.

Dr. Google knows everything!

My grandmother wasn't that old.

Ken

 

[Tailwinds Land & Cattle]

We had a couple cows and horses show up with something very similar. marble to maybe 1/2 size golf ball welts all over. We assumed bees. Went away on its own.

 

[Chuckie]

Same with chiggers. People think the chigger is buried up in the skin. They put fingernail polish on it to smother it. :)

We had a couple cows and horses show up with something very similar. marble to maybe 1/2 size golf ball welts all over. We assumed bees. Went away on its own.

That's the best kind. Something that shows up and then disappears pretty quickly.