foot rot

[cattleluvr18]

how do you treat it and is there anyway to prevent it? have my first case of it...well atcually three. was told LA200 and penn. sounds good to me but just needing another opion before i do it.

 

[denoginnizer]

Excenel will cure it with one dose in most cases. Without a doubt the best stuff for foot rot , in my opinion.

 

[msscamp]

how do you treat it and is there anyway to prevent it? have my first case of it...well atcually three. was told LA200 and penn. sounds good to me but just needing another opion before i do it.

Treating: LA200, Pennicillin, long-acting sulfa boluses, iodine on the foot - take your pick.

Prevention: Do not let your tanks run over, keep the area around your tanks dry, keep your corrals as dry as possible, keep weeds mowed around your tanks in pastures, keep trash picked up in pastures, and iodine in your mineral.

 

[dun]

I'll second Excenel as our preferred treatment.


dun

 

[msscamp]

I'll tuck that away for possible future reference, dun. We don't have any experience with Excenel, so I was reluctant to suggest it. Thanks!

 

[Aaron]

Any low-pain oxytetracycline for 3 days straight will bring them around. 5 days for a severe case. I did treat one severe case that recovered after 2 treatments, but that was dumb luck (dumb being me, luck being the cow)

Prevention is near impossible. Wetness has nothing to do with it. On real dry ground, the skin around the toes will crack and split and be open to infection when they finally go to a water hole.

Obviously, keep wire and junk eliminated from your pastures. But other than that, it's just luck.

 

[msscamp]

But other than that, it's just luck.

If that is true, we had one helluva run of luck! We've had exactly one case of foot rot in 50 years, and that was on rented pasture with weeds around the tank, and tanks overflowing continuously. This article also states there are preventative measures that can be taken. It also states that I was incorrect on the iodine in the minerals, and that it should have been CTC. My mistake, and my apologies.

http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/exten/cc-co ... otrot.html

 

[mnmtranching]

All my pastures have ponds and mud holes, cattle are using them all the time. In this country we all use a Brand name Hi-Mix salt.
With CTC, and other additives. I had some foot rot problems, then started using this year around and not 1 case since, that was about 5 years ago.

 

[cattleluvr18]

k thanks guys. i will look into excenel. they have an automatic waterer which sits on cement so there is never any mud or weeds around it. they are in a lot, not pasture unfortunetly. if wetness has nothing to do with it, then i have no idea how they got it. evidentally its just my luck, which doesnt surpise me. thanks again.

 

[Outrigger2]

nuflor and sulfa-bolus work real well. trimming the black stuff out of the hoof and getting it to bleed a little will help in killing the bacteria.

 

[cattleluvr18]

vet gave me some excenel. said if its not better in 48 hours give it another dose. he said i shouldnt need sulfa-bolus. i'll just see how it goes.

 

[racekannon]

Nuflor is labeled for foot rot and clears it up fast

 

[Susie David]

Had two cases this winter...cleaned the hoof, antibiotic ointment, bandaged and wraped water tight with duct tape.
Single dose of Nuflor and kept them in the barn for ten days.
Hoof all healed about the time the duct tape wears off.
DMc

 

[Jeffro]

sprinkle barn lime around the water tanks for prevention, making sure you have it in an area that they will all step in it.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Increase your iodine supplement also fill a pump up sprayer with 10% clorox solution and spray there feet down.

 

[somn]

how do you treat it and is there anyway to prevent it? have my first case of it...well atcually three. was told LA200 and penn. sounds good to me but just needing another opion before i do it.

Treating: LA200, Pennicillin, long-acting sulfa boluses, iodine on the foot - take your pick.

Prevention: Do not let your tanks run over, keep the area around your tanks dry, keep your corrals as dry as possible, keep weeds mowed around your tanks in pastures, keep trash picked up in pastures, and iodine in your mineral.

One case in 50 years and you could remember exactly what to treat with. It must have been a recent case or something.

 

[cattleluvr18]

thanks guys. the excenel really worked.

 

[msscamp]

how do you treat it and is there anyway to prevent it? have my first case of it...well atcually three. was told LA200 and penn. sounds good to me but just needing another opion before i do it.

Treating: LA200, Pennicillin, long-acting sulfa boluses, iodine on the foot - take your pick.

Prevention: Do not let your tanks run over, keep the area around your tanks dry, keep your corrals as dry as possible, keep weeds mowed around your tanks in pastures, keep trash picked up in pastures, and iodine in your mineral.

One case in 50 years and you could remember exactly what to treat with. It must have been a recent case or something.

It was - roughly 2 years ago. The reasons I remember it so well - she was a bitch who weighed apprx 1300 lbs, Dad didn't put a halter on her, and she came within an 1/8 on an inch of killing him - literally. For whatever reason, that case of foot rot was also the turning point in his and my relationship.

 

[Moocow11]

It was - roughly 2 years ago. The reasons I remember it so well - she was a be nice who weighed apprx 1300 lbs, Dad didn't put a halter on her, and she came within an 1/8 on an inch of killing him - literally. For whatever reason, that case of foot rot was also the turning point in his and my relationship.

he should have had a scope on that gun

 

[msscamp]

It was - roughly 2 years ago. The reasons I remember it so well - she was a be nice who weighed apprx 1300 lbs, Dad didn't put a halter on her, and she came within an 1/8 on an inch of killing him - literally. For whatever reason, that case of foot rot was also the turning point in his and my relationship.

he should have had a scope on that gun

Dad knew the temperament of that cow, and it was his choice to not use a halter - I can't blame the cow for that.