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Livestock => Cattle => Topic started by: The_Hawthorne_Pack on March 11, 2019, 10:01:53 pm

Title: dry skin in calves
Post by: The_Hawthorne_Pack on March 11, 2019, 10:01:53 pm

  :wave:  Does anyone have experience of dry skin on calves?  I have two Dexter Angus X who I recently treated for lice with Dectospot and now they have dandruff!  I can brush it off, but it keeps coming back, so I am guessing the lice treatment has dried their skin.  Should I put some oils in their feed or something on their skin? :cow: ???

Title: Re: dry skin in calves
Post by: YorkshireLass on March 12, 2019, 05:12:18 pm

I see no harm in offering a glug of oil on some feed, to see if it helps, but I'd also offer non-oily feed so they have a choice.
Definitely no signs of other creepy crawlies? I'd presume the dectospot would kill off everything though.

Title: Re: dry skin in calves
Post by: The_Hawthorne_Pack on March 17, 2019, 01:26:42 pm

All the lice appear to have gone, YorkshireLass,  it's just when I give them a rub or a scratch they're scurfy.  I have screwed some broom heads to the corner of their shelter so that they can give themselves a scratch if they want to. :farmer: