Foot rot

[Newcutter]

Is there some thing you can buy and put out to help prevent foot rot

 

[kenny thomas]

I use dehydrated lime. Comes in 50 lb bags. Spread it around areas where they get water.

 

[wbvs58]

Copper sulphate foot baths can help if you can make something in a gateway for them to walk through. The lime that KT suggested sounds the easiest.

Ken

 

[TCRanch]

Mineral with CTC. Requires a VFD and is intended for anaplasmosis but can help curb foot rot.

 

[Ebenezer]

Check the level of iodine in the minerals and the availability.

 

[ChrisB2]

Not what you asked for, but there is also a vaccine.

 

[Mark Reynolds]

Is there some thing you can buy and put out to help prevent foot rot

Two very important questions for you to answer for me to respond. Where are you? Do you have fescue in your pastures? If you do have fescue, how mature is it? Does it have seed heads? I'm thinking the possibility of fescue foot. If it's that, get the animals off the pasture until after a hard freeze. If it's not the pasture, a copper sulfate based application of sort to the hoof/foot may help.

 

[kenny thomas]

Two very important questions for you to answer for me to respond. Where are you? Do you have fescue in your pastures? If you do have fescue, how mature is it? Does it have seed heads? I'm thinking the possibility of fescue foot. If it's that, get the animals off the pasture until after a hard freeze. If it's not the pasture, a copper sulfate based application of sort to the hoof/foot may help.

Im pretty sure no matter where he or she is, the fescue would have seeded months ago and the seedheads would no longer be an issue.
Actually Newcutter didn't even say they had a cow with a problem, just ask what to do to prevent it.

 

[Mark Reynolds]

Im pretty sure no matter where he or she is, the fescue would have seeded months ago and the seedheads would no longer be an issue.
Actually Newcutter didn't even say they had a cow with a problem, just ask what to do to prevent it.

I wouldn't expect seedheads to be the issue, but it's worth observing. Also though, realize that the endophyte causing problems is found throughout the plant, more so in mature plants. Seedheads usually are the culprit in creating acute problems such as fescue foot, but not exclusively.