Smurfing a calf

[dun]

Had a calf born this morning. With the flies I decided to spray it's navel and butt with screw worm spray to keep them off. While I was at it I also sprayed her body lightly. Turns out the screw worm spray has a blue coloring in it. By the time I finished the poor little thing looked like a Smurf. Momma apparantly didn;t think much of the paint job since a little while later the calf was back to being red but with a bright blue umbilical cord

 

[M-5]

They really don't like it when you try and change their color.

 

[callmefence]

Had a calf born this morning. With the flies I decided to spray it's navel and butt with screw worm spray to keep them off. While I was at it I also sprayed her body lightly. Turns out the screw worm spray has a blue coloring in it. By the time I finished the poor little thing looked like a Smurf. Momma apparantly didn;t think much of the paint job since a little while later the calf was back to being red but with a bright blue umbilical cord

Hilarious

 

[TCRanch]

No pics? Never had a blue calf but my friend brought over metallic blue glitter hoof paint when she was helping me trim Steamroller's hooves (BCS 8 at least).

 

[talltimber]

dun, after the calf last fall getting maggots so bad, the scarring (still not completely healed), the pain and irritation he's endured, I think that will be my sop from now on when it's still hot and flies are a problem.

 

[dun]

dun, after the calf last fall getting maggots so bad, the scarring (still not completely healed), the pain and irritation he's endured, I think that will be my sop from now on when it's still hot and flies are a problem.

Our vet recommended it. He says for any calf born in June or through the beginning of September he recommends it.

 

[JMJ Farms]

Not familiar with screw worms. I treat all navels with Triodyne7 at birth but what's screw worm spray? May need to add it to my arsenal.

 

[ez14]

I think the spray just fades because we sprayed some heifers when we dehorned and a hour or two later they we`re not blue any more

 

[dun]

I think the spray just fades because we sprayed some heifers when we dehorned and a hour or two later they we`re not blue any more

Could be. May have to spray some and watch to see what happens.

 

[Lucky_P]

JMJ,
Screw-worm spray (usually a coumaphos product), harkens back to the days when the pest, Cochliomyia hominovorax, was the scourge of livestock producers, but it has long since been eradicated from North America - since the 1960s.
Back in the day, I used it on every knife castration or dehorning performed during 'fly season'(even though there were no longer any screwworm flies around)

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications ... ewworm.pdf

 

[JMJ Farms]

Thanks you LuckyP. Now it makes sense why I wasn't familiar with them.

 

[Lucky_P]

Even though the pest has been gone from the US for 50 year or so, Screwworm bomb/spray is still out there, and marketed under that name - and, as noted earlier in the thread, it's got a blue or purple dye in it.

Accidental reintroductions happen from time to time, when people &/or their animals return from areas of the world where it's still endemic. Animal health professionals have to constantly be on the lookout for it. You don't want to be the vet that 'misses' that case of screwworm infestation in the dog/horse, etc. that your client recently returned from South America with.

 

[JMJ Farms]

I guess people have their reasons but I personally see no reason to drag critters around the globe. Or to go myself for that matter.

 

[Cross-7]

Had a calf born this morning. With the flies I decided to spray it's navel and butt with screw worm spray to keep them off. While I was at it I also sprayed her body lightly. Turns out the screw worm spray has a blue coloring in it. By the time I finished the poor little thing looked like a Smurf. Momma apparantly didn;t think much of the paint job since a little while later the calf was back to being red but with a bright blue umbilical cord

Hilarious

X2
I saw this earlier today but didn't have time to read it.
Cracked me up when I read it :clap:

 

[Cross-7]

JMJ,
Screw-worm spray (usually a coumaphos product), harkens back to the days when the pest, Cochliomyia hominovorax, was the scourge of livestock producers, but it has long since been eradicated from North America - since the 1960s.
Back in the day, I used it on every knife castration or dehorning performed during 'fly season'(even though there were no longer any screwworm flies around)

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications ... ewworm.pdf

Heard the stories of the cowboy's that rode every summer "doctoring" screw worms
I bet after a summer your string was pretty much automatic.

They are bigger, taller, faster than back then but I'd bet they wouldn't last a day