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Lame yearling heifer, your thoughts please?
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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 1085458" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>thoughts?</p><p>Feet look poor for a yearling but I probably have one or two just as bad in the dairy herd, getting nothing but grass.</p><p>It's been a very good spring for both quantity and quality of grass production. I'd probably look at conformation issues before laminitis, but not rule it out. </p><p>But first of all, look for injury. There was an old saying, "even if you think a cow is lame in her head, look at the foot"</p><p>If she's stiff/lame on more than one foot sole bruising could be the issue. If she's walking back on her heels I'd look very closely at the toes - heifers and bulls are especially susceptible to toe abscesses compared to cows.</p><p></p><p>Depending on your experience level working on feet, what I'd probably do is check first for injury and if nothing obvious is discovered, trim the worst feet back to a correct walking surface (I've done a lot of this but I still sometimes get the vet to do any tricky ones) and if they grow out again mark her as a cow you're not going to keep replacements from.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 1085458, member: 9267"] thoughts? Feet look poor for a yearling but I probably have one or two just as bad in the dairy herd, getting nothing but grass. It's been a very good spring for both quantity and quality of grass production. I'd probably look at conformation issues before laminitis, but not rule it out. But first of all, look for injury. There was an old saying, "even if you think a cow is lame in her head, look at the foot" If she's stiff/lame on more than one foot sole bruising could be the issue. If she's walking back on her heels I'd look very closely at the toes - heifers and bulls are especially susceptible to toe abscesses compared to cows. Depending on your experience level working on feet, what I'd probably do is check first for injury and if nothing obvious is discovered, trim the worst feet back to a correct walking surface (I've done a lot of this but I still sometimes get the vet to do any tricky ones) and if they grow out again mark her as a cow you're not going to keep replacements from. [/QUOTE]
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