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<blockquote data-quote="simme" data-source="post: 1765274" data-attributes="member: 40418"><p>Agree with Buck. Foot rot gets bad and swollen pretty quick and needs a quick response. Treated early, it gets better/cured pretty quick as well. Chronic hopping - I tend to think abscess or injury or structural issue with the foot. People tend to think foot rot for most hopping and treat with an antibiotic. An abscess may respond to an antibiotic initially, but the hopping will soon return. Best to raise and examine the foot - foot rot is pretty easy to recognize. If a quick visual of the raised foot does not show foot rot, look at foot scoring. A foot angle score of 8 or 9 (cow walking on heel) can result in long claws and a gimpy walk. Sometimes the feet make a "clicking" noise from overlapping claws. Solution on those is culling. An abscess is generally due to a puncture injury. Clean the underside of the hoof very well and look for dark/black spots. Start digging with a hoof knife and follow the black to find the abscess. Dig until the blood drips to drain the abscess. A good set of hoof tools is needed. If there is a vet school nearby, they have the tilt table and work pretty cheap on hoof work.</p><p></p><p>Then there is the tenderness from founder when overfeeding corn or ramping the rate up too quickly. That will present as tenderness on all feet along with going off feed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="simme, post: 1765274, member: 40418"] Agree with Buck. Foot rot gets bad and swollen pretty quick and needs a quick response. Treated early, it gets better/cured pretty quick as well. Chronic hopping - I tend to think abscess or injury or structural issue with the foot. People tend to think foot rot for most hopping and treat with an antibiotic. An abscess may respond to an antibiotic initially, but the hopping will soon return. Best to raise and examine the foot - foot rot is pretty easy to recognize. If a quick visual of the raised foot does not show foot rot, look at foot scoring. A foot angle score of 8 or 9 (cow walking on heel) can result in long claws and a gimpy walk. Sometimes the feet make a "clicking" noise from overlapping claws. Solution on those is culling. An abscess is generally due to a puncture injury. Clean the underside of the hoof very well and look for dark/black spots. Start digging with a hoof knife and follow the black to find the abscess. Dig until the blood drips to drain the abscess. A good set of hoof tools is needed. If there is a vet school nearby, they have the tilt table and work pretty cheap on hoof work. Then there is the tenderness from founder when overfeeding corn or ramping the rate up too quickly. That will present as tenderness on all feet along with going off feed. [/QUOTE]
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