Cow with Eye Injury.

For pinkeye I used to use a tube of mastitis medication (Usually one called Quartermaster). It was oil based and would not wash out of the eye quite as quickly. After infusing this I took the old fashion route of putting a good heavy denim patch over the eye.

I'd say 99% of any eyes I have to treat are abrasions from stemmy bales or foreign objects (mainly seed heads) and fortunately rare. I generally just flush with Vetericyn and a hefty dose of LA300. I do have the luxury of seeing my cattle every day so follow up with spraying the eye a couple more days, primarily to produce more natural tears/flushing. Last time I took a bull to the vet for an eye abrasion, all he did was flush & treat with LA (I hated that bull & did NOT follow up with subsequent spraying/flushing!). One-n-done, he healed perfectly.

Can you get LA300 there? Impossible to get here.

Texasbred, I have a mastitis medication called "Today."  But the Quartermaster has a penicillin base and where as Today has cephaprin sodium.   I wonder if this can be used in the eye?   Hmmm?   
I do have Vetericyn spray as well.

I was reading where honey was used in the eyes for many problems which I keep a jar of honey around for cuts.   Bacteria will not grow in honey and when you place it on a new cut, then put a bandaid over it to keep from getting everything sticky, the cut heals very clean and never gets infected.  I change the bandage about three times and it heals without leaving an ugly scar.   

It states to mix equal parts honey with distilled water to treat.   

"... honey is a good salve for sore eyes" ~ Aristotle (350 B.C)

I cannot find any information about using the cephaprin in the eye.

Oh good grief!!!  I cannot believe they are doing this now.  I guess I need to go by Co-op and see if they have any bottles left.   I am sure the vets will jack the price up.  It is bad enough that the producer is scraping by to make a profit.  Going to the grocery store and looking in the meat counters is depressing to see that beef roasts are so expensive.   A double pack of roast in Sam's was right at $40.00  When a cow gets sick, it is easy to spend that on her to get her well.  

Contaminated bottles my azz. Its obvious the FDA is witch hunting OTC livestock antibiotics. The Drover's list is proof positive in short order you can kiss all OTC adios. What irritates me most is the over whelming majority of those offenses as well as downers & animal abuses stem from the dairy industry and yet the beef industry continues to stays mum.

Yesterday morning when I got her up, the eye was less cloudy as a whole, but still had a white film coating. In the center of her eye, it appeared to be a definite white center. I could not find anything in her eye.

She was given 60cc of LA300, as I am not sure what she weighs. My cows are larger framed and in good condition.

I also had some pink eye wash that is supposed to be soothing. I also made a 1/2 solution of honey and distilled water and squirted that in the eye. I read several sites about honey used in the eye, and it reported that it worked.
I usually feed at 1:00 p.m. each day here at the house and am anxious to see how she is doing.

Thanks for all the input given. I will give another report on her after I feed.

The hay this year was not what I wanted it to be. We had a high chance of rain each week, and often it did rain. Very wet conditions kept us out of the hayfield and the hay had a little bit of stemmy Johnson grass in places. I feel that it might have contributed to her eye injury. I hope this next season will not be so wet that we can spray the Johnson grass. It is a field of Vaughn's Bermuda, and does real well when we can get in the field every 30 days. We only got two cuttings that went way past the 30 day growth with fertilizer. So the protein is lower than ideal. It really bothers me to feed crap hay that is pretty much a filler. Once the Bermuda goes over the 30 days it is pretty much a filler. I am supplementing protein with the hay with Distillers grain and Supreme Mineral with Rumensin from Tennessee Farmers Co-op.

I do hope that this will be the only eye injury that I have.