Ringworm in cattle

[juliand]

I have noticed a number of infected cattle in my herd.

I rent about 30 acres of ground from a friend who has 3 horses. Can anyone tel me if it is transmittable from cattle to horses?

if so what is the best treatment? years ago we used a feed suplement but i gather this is now band.

J D

 

[BC]

It is a fungus. You can get the cattle up and spray the spots with captan or squit a little strong iodine on the spots. Takes about six weeks fro hair to grow back. Most commercial operators just let time heal this.

If you could still find the old cattle wormer TBZ that was popular in the early 70's you could smear some of that on the spots. Overuse caused worms to build an immunity, but it wouod work on ring worms still.

 

[milkmaid]

BC -- why would a wormer help this? ringworm is a fungus, not a worm.

 

[dun]

BC -- why would a wormer help this? ringworm is a fungus, not a worm.

I think waht was alluded to was that TMZ had lost it's effectiveness against worms so it may have been taken off the market, BUT, it would still work on ringworm. I don;t know why it would unless it was soimply the effect of putting something on it that covered it the same as putting pinetar on it would.

 

[BC]

I don't know what was in it, but it wouldn't work pn worms anymore but did work on ringworm.

 

[chippie]

Yes the horses can get it from the cattle.

 

[dun]

Yes the horses can get it from the cattle.

So can people