Help for Bull's legs?

[countrygal12]

We have a beautiful braford bull, he is tall and built but not huge, however he keeps injuring his legs, he limps more often than not so we are wondering if maybe he is lacking something in his diet. Maybe some vitamin? We have black gumbo which is hard to walk on but he just injures his legs way too often. Does anyone have any suggestions, please?

Thanks

 

[dun]

What kind of injuries? Foot rot, just lame, what exactly are they?

 

[Caustic Burno]

What kind of injuries? Foot rot, just lame, what exactly are they?

I will put my dollar on foot rot

 

[Galloways1]

What kind of injuries? Foot rot, just lame, what exactly are they?

I will put my dollar on foot rot

or an abcess, when it breaks they don't limp.

Worked on a place that had a yearling bull with a chronic limp. Wound up having a finishing nail in his hoof. Didn't find it for months, finally did an X ray as the owner had paid big $$ for him

 

[countrygal12]

He just comes up lame, limping. Right now his right front knee is swelled up, usually he just limps but this time there is swelling.

 

[jerry27150]

if you can't find anything in it, have vet check

 

[Richardin52]

countrygal12

What state are you in?

 

[medicinewoman]

Countrygal,

Now correct me if I am wrong.
You are having a lameness problem with a bull in multiple legs over a period of time, correct? But you are not having the same problem with the rest of your animals, correct?

To me it sounds like you are dealing with a white tissue joint (s) problem, not an injury which could be caused by a copper/selenium deficiency.

The lameness condition often shows up in a bull first, vs. the cows, due to his weight and physical/mounting activities.

Here are two sites that can explain it better then I.
Vigortone's Tec Bulletin 06-5
http://www.vigortone.com/tech_library/t ... oncept.pdf

Note: ( Table 1. ) a copper deficiency can cause lameness and a selenium deficiency can cause white muscle disease, which is what I am reading in your posts.

If you are not already feeding, free choice, an inexpensive mineral block, I would recommend it.

If you already are feeding minerals, see "Table 2" and note: Sulfur ties up both copper and selenium and is an antagonistic to both copper and selenium .

For additional help see Vigortone's Tec Bulletin 06-44 Last paragraph.

http://www.vigortone.com/tech_library/t ... y%20Su.pdf

Hope this helps

 

[medicinewoman]

Countrygal,

Now correct me if I am wrong.
You are having a lameness problem with a bull in multiple legs over a period of time, correct? But you are not having the same problem with the rest of your animals, correct?

To me it sounds like you are dealing with a white tissue joint (s) problem, not an injury which could be caused by a copper/selenium deficiency.

The lameness condition often shows up in a bull first, vs. the cows, due to his weight and physical/mounting activities.

Here are two sites that can explain it better then I.
Vigortone's Tec Bulletin 06-5
http://www.vigortone.com/tech_library/t ... oncept.pdf

Note: ( Table 1. ) a copper deficiency can cause lameness and a selenium deficiency can cause white muscle disease, which is what I am reading in your posts.

If you are not already feeding, free choice, an inexpensive mineral block, I would recommend it.

If you already are feeding minerals, see "Table 2" and note: Sulfur ties up both copper and selenium and is an antagonistic to both copper and selenium .

For additional help see Vigortone's Tec Bulletin 06-44 Last paragraph.

http://www.vigortone.com/tech_library/t ... y%20Su.pdf

Hope this helps

 

[Richardin52]

Don't know what state your in but you might want to check this out.

http://www.michigan.gov/emergingdisease ... --,00.html