Cures for warts on calves

[Ruebush Shorthorns]

Our show heifer has had warts now for over a month.  I have given her two sets of shots with wart vaccine and they still have not fallen off.  Our state fair is in a little over a month and they are strict on ringworm and warts.  We don't want to show up and then be sent home not able to show.  Is their anything that can be put on the warts directly to help them go away or a good anti fungal soap that we could use daily to prevent warts.  She won two grand champions at our fair so we have high expectations at the state fair.
Thanks

 

[kane1598]

They need to be cut or frozen off.  Giving wart vaccine for a heifer with warts already is not going to help. I would call your vet, ours cuts them off and they heal pretty quickly. Good luck at state fair.

 

[simtal]

Unfortunately, the anti-fungal soap won't do anything, since warts are caused by a virus not by fungus.  Cut them off and if there really big, maybe consider having a vet do it with some local and sutures.

 

[farwest]

cut them off, whether it be with clippers, scissors, knife, side cutters however, throw them in their feed, put iodione directly on the open sore several times for day,  realize might not be too good if it is on white.    call me stupid, ag teacher taught that back in college and saw it work

 

[BIGTEX]

I agree, cut them off and put it in their feed.

 

[chambero]

The wart vaccine didn't work because there are so many different viruses that cause warts.  As others said, pull them off and feed them to them.

We had a big group of heifers come down with a pretty bad case of warts two years ago.  Vet told us to leave them alone and they would eventually fall off.  Every single one of them did.

 

[Rocky Hill Simmental]

Dr. Scholl's wart remover works well on cattle. They take a while to fall off though so after they start getting loose, I go ahead and cut them off.

If they're around the eyes, I'd recommend taking them to the vet. You wouldn't want to put medicine on or cut around their eyes.

 

[DLD]

If the feeding the warts back to them thing turns you off,  alot of people will just squeeze a couple of them with a pair of pliers before (or while) they're cutting them off - it's supposed to put some of the virus back into their system and help create an immunity.  Personally,  I don't do either one - I just cut 'em off with a clean, sharp pair of scissors.  Be sure and get underneath the bulk of the wart and snip it off at the base - many won't bleed at all,  most of the ones that do will bleed very little.  They very rarely come back when you just cut them off.  If you think this sounds harder on the animal than putting the wart meds on them for weeks, try a little of that on yourself and see what you think - that stuff burns like the dickens - cutting them off doesn't seem to bother them hardly at all.  As others have said,  you might want to have a vet cut off any really big ones so they can suture them.

 

[Ruebush Shorthorns]

I was told to cut them off and burn them but I have never heard of feeding them to to animal.  I guess I have some dirty work to do today now that you all have helped.  Thanks Again

 

[redwingfarm]

We had a show heifer that developed warts in her ears about 1 month after we tattooed her, we tried the vaccine, and pulling them off, however the heifer really hated me for a while, and even after all the they grew back, so we pulled as many off with pliers as possible and stuffed as many as possible down her throat!!!  now 6 months later the warts in the ears are all gone, you can even read the tattoos.  We also hit our tattoo equip with a heavy shot of alcohol just in case.  As gross as it sounds to feed them to the calves, it works good luck

 

[steermaker]

We haven't dealt with warts in a long time.  If they are small enough we simple scrape them off with our fingernails.  Large toenail clippers (use on humans) work as well.  For bigger warts we douse them with iodine for a couple of days and then cut them off with sharp surgical scissors or use a scalpel.  Once the wart is off we continue to douse the area with iodine for a couple of days.  That has worked for us in the past.

Good Luck <cowboy>

 

[Diamond]

We had a show heifer that developed warts in her ears about 1 month after we tattooed her, we tried the vaccine, and pulling them off, however the heifer really hated me for a while, and even after all the they grew back, so we pulled as many off with pliers as possible and stuffed as many as possible down her throat!!!  now 6 months later the warts in the ears are all gone, you can even read the tattoos.  We also hit our tattoo equip with a heavy shot of alcohol just in case.  As gross as it sounds to feed them to the calves, it works good luck

I had the same thing happen after I tattooed one of our heifers ears, she developed a horrible cluster that took hours to get off. Also if you are pulling them make sure to get the root, it helps to prevent them from coming back.  the root is usually a pale white color and looks a lot like a maggot.

 

[Shorthorn_Junkie]

I was told to cut them off and burn them but I have never heard of feeding them to to animal.  I guess I have some dirty work to do today now that you all have helped.  Thanks Again

I've always cut them off with scissors myself, however I must admit that I  have not heard of feeding them to the animal either.  Interesting. 

I'll have to try that the next time one of them gets warts. 

 

[ratmama2]

I put lard on the warts. it makes them itchy so they scratch them off there is also less bleeding and the area seems to heal faster than if they are cut off. Apply it daily or everyother day depending on your washing schedule. I get my lard at Walmart, it has been the only place I can find it anymore cause of the don't cook with lard cause it is unhealthy.

 

[red]

I try to pull them off w/ tweezers to get to the root. Then just let them bleed out. we also feed them back to the calf.

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