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Ticks can be controlled with insecticide chemicals used as sprays, dips or dusts.
Ear ticks can be controlled directly applying an approved insecticide into the animal's ears.
SKIN PROBLEMS
Cattle are subject to various skin problems such as ringworm that is a fungal infection and causes scaled patches of skin, worms and mange caused by mites that feed on the skin. These conditions can be easily remedied. Prompt treatment is essential as they may spread through direct contact.
Ringworm:
This is a fungus common in winter and is characterized by round, hairless areas of 1 to 2 inches wide. The affected skin is crusty or scaly. Ringworm is spread by direct contact with infected animals or by rubbing on the same objects. Confine the infected animal in a chute and treat with a fungicide such as iodine on the hairless areas.
Warts:
These are skin growths caused by a virus and often appear where the skin has been broken. They can occur in the ear after tagging. They affect calves and yearlings more than adults. Although they are unsightly they usually go away after a few months.
Scabies mites:
This kind of mite deposits eggs on the skin. They attack any part of the body covered with hair, pricking the skin to obtain food from tissue fluids. If they are allowed to multiply many wounds are made that cause inflammation, intense itching and small sores. The sores ooze and mix with dirt, creating a scab that subsequently becomes infected, hardens to a gray or yellow color. Scabs increase in size as mites feed on healthy skin on shoulders or tail head and eventually infest the entire body. As with other parasites scabies mites cause loss of weight and the animal may die if not controlled.
Mange mites:
Mange mites establish themselves where the hair is thin and the skin tender, such as inner surface f legs, testicles, or the top of the udder. Where as scabies mites are active on the surface of the skin mange mites burrow into the skin and lay eggs. If not controlled they spread under the bellow to the brisket (the front of the cow above the legs) and upward to the tail-head and eventually over the whole body causing loss of hair and heavy dry scabs. Infested animals have thick wrinkled skin.
Ear ticks can be controlled directly applying an approved insecticide into the animal's ears.
SKIN PROBLEMS
Cattle are subject to various skin problems such as ringworm that is a fungal infection and causes scaled patches of skin, worms and mange caused by mites that feed on the skin. These conditions can be easily remedied. Prompt treatment is essential as they may spread through direct contact.
Ringworm:
This is a fungus common in winter and is characterized by round, hairless areas of 1 to 2 inches wide. The affected skin is crusty or scaly. Ringworm is spread by direct contact with infected animals or by rubbing on the same objects. Confine the infected animal in a chute and treat with a fungicide such as iodine on the hairless areas.
Warts:
These are skin growths caused by a virus and often appear where the skin has been broken. They can occur in the ear after tagging. They affect calves and yearlings more than adults. Although they are unsightly they usually go away after a few months.
Scabies mites:
This kind of mite deposits eggs on the skin. They attack any part of the body covered with hair, pricking the skin to obtain food from tissue fluids. If they are allowed to multiply many wounds are made that cause inflammation, intense itching and small sores. The sores ooze and mix with dirt, creating a scab that subsequently becomes infected, hardens to a gray or yellow color. Scabs increase in size as mites feed on healthy skin on shoulders or tail head and eventually infest the entire body. As with other parasites scabies mites cause loss of weight and the animal may die if not controlled.
Mange mites:
Mange mites establish themselves where the hair is thin and the skin tender, such as inner surface f legs, testicles, or the top of the udder. Where as scabies mites are active on the surface of the skin mange mites burrow into the skin and lay eggs. If not controlled they spread under the bellow to the brisket (the front of the cow above the legs) and upward to the tail-head and eventually over the whole body causing loss of hair and heavy dry scabs. Infested animals have thick wrinkled skin.