Ringworm

[downey beef]

My show string of livestock has all just come down with ringworm. Some are just getting it around their eyes and others have it worse. Last year I tried scrapping it with a wire brush then putting iodine on it. I have a show in a little less than two months. Is there any other stronger ways that can help me out????

 

[frostback]

This is what I have done for years. There are dozens of ideas that work for others but this works for me. Dont scrap it that just prolongs the healing time. Fry a pound of bacon, eat bacon, put fat in a bowl. Cool the bowl in fridge, put on a latex glove apply the grease to the ringworm. Do it a few times. It will kill it and keep the skin moisturised and help heeling time.

 

[ingramcattle]

I washed with betadine/iodine shampoo, let it set for awhile. Blow dried them and applied a fungus medication. Took about two weeks for hair to start growing again.

 

[johnmetzger]

Fluid Film from John Deere works for me. Spray on watch it fizz and notice hair growth shortly later. Cover calfs eye when applying.

 

[GoWyo]

We had it horrible last summer even on the pasture cattle (which seemed odd) and the most effective thing after trying every remedy was Shapley's MTG.  Didn't try the bacon grease though.

 

[Angusboy]

Fluid Film from John Deere works for me. Spray on watch it fizz and notice hair growth shortly later. Cover calfs eye when applying.

Thats what i use, works everytime

 

[firesweepranch]

We had it horrible last summer even on the pasture cattle (which seemed odd) and the most effective thing after trying every remedy was Shapley's MTG.  Didn't try the bacon grease though.

Glad you said that! We bought a heifer, and when she arrived she was covered in it! of course, it spread to the rest. We had been using the Sullivans pink paste, but it is not kicking it. Got a bottle of the MTG Wednesday, so I will let you know how it works. I know it stinks like nasty yuck! I apply it with a syringe. That way I keep it off me!!!

 

[jspring]

We had ringworm terrible 10 years ago.  Tried everything to get rid of it, but nothing worked until I read a post on CattleToday.com about running goats with cattle to help with ringworm.  I had nothing to lose by trying it.  Within a couple of weeks the ringworm had cleared up.  A couple of years later a heifer came down with ringworm.  Again I tried the goat trick and it worked.  I don't know if there is anything scientific to this or not, but it has worked for us. Sounds crazy, I know. <cowboy> 

 

[3dfarms]

I've never tried the bacon trick...interesting.

 

[BlkAngus]

We had ringworm terrible 10 years ago.  Tried everything to get rid of it, but nothing worked until I read a post on CattleToday.com about running goats with cattle to help with ringworm.  I had nothing to lose by trying it.  Within a couple of weeks the ringworm had cleared up.  A couple of years later a heifer came down with ringworm.  Again I tried the goat trick and it worked.  I don't know if there is anything scientific to this or not, but it has worked for us. Sounds crazy, I know. <cowboy>   

It's funny you say that. someone told me this same thing just today at a cattle show.

 

[CWshorthorns]

We had ringworm bad last year and was told about the goat trick and i will be if it didnt clear it up. i hace  young bull that came down with it and i put him in the show pen were the goat makes his home on our farm and boom with in a week or 2 hair is growing back. I cant tell you why it works but it does work.

 

[jspring]

We had ringworm bad last year and was told about the goat trick and i will be if it didnt clear it up. i hace  young bull that came down with it and i put him in the show pen were the goat makes his home on our farm and boom with in a week or 2 hair is growing back. I cant tell you why it works but it does work.

OK....so I'm not crazy....other folks are having success using the goat trick on ringworm.  Anybody (vets or other PhD's) out there know why or how this works?

 

[PPH]

Waste motor oil works very well and is cheap

 

[carter o]

We use the sullivan paste too. Scrap it so it bleed and apply that. Then when u see a littke hair coming through apply mtg. Cleared our heifer up in a week and a half

 

[steerjock07]

ringworm is a self healing fungus. you can treat it and it will take 6 weeks to heal. you can also let it alone and do nothing to it which will take a month and a half to heal up. it seems hard to believe and it is hard for people to not "treat" ringworm on their show calves but it will make no difference either way

 

[DLD]

We had ringworm bad last year and was told about the goat trick and i will be if it didnt clear it up. i hace  young bull that came down with it and i put him in the show pen were the goat makes his home on our farm and boom with in a week or 2 hair is growing back. I cant tell you why it works but it does work.

OK....so I'm not crazy....other folks are having success using the goat trick on ringworm.  Anybody (vets or other PhD's) out there know why or how this works?

Ringworm is actually a fungus, and it lives in the soil.  I've always been told that a billy goat's urine will kill the fungus in the soil - not wether or doe goats, though.  That doesn't explain how goats could cure ringworm already on the cattle, either.

We use fluid film, but pretty much any oily substance that softens it up will speed healing somewhat, anyway.

 

[HeiferShower14]

Has anyone tryed WD-40?

 

[marku]

tea tree oil from walmart.  works and grows hair within a week.

 

[marku]

The vet can also give an IV that will take care of it.  I know tea tree oil works and works fast. 

 

[renegadelivestock]

i have always put Vics Vapo-Rub on it, and it seems t work. My vet says sunlight is the best thing to kill it. the goat idea is interesting....