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The older man I help out alot has a cow that is about 7 months bred. Anyway, she is limping on her back left foot, we got her up last Wednesday and pulled the foot up and it looks totally normal and good in between toes and all. He wanted me to give her some LA 200 so I did (it's his cow). She wa better for about 5 days and now limping again. She raises a great calf and breeds back fast so he wants to keep her if he can. Any ideas? Maybe she just stepped on something the wrong way?
 
May be an abcess. The LA200 will mask it for a while as you described. Found one showing the same symptoms this p.m.


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Next time you get her up clean her foot good with bleach and warm water. Then rub Turpentine on the shin and hoof.
 
Look real close at the foot, I treated one like that for two months only to find a bent nail in her foot, don't know how I missed it before but I did.
 
My experience with hoof infections is that it takes 2 to 3 doses of LA 200, (72hrs. Apart). If you underdose you will see a relapse of symptoms/infection.
 
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highgrit":3vmqagsy said:
Next time you get her up clean her foot good with bleach and warm water. Then rub Turpentine on the shin and hoof.
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We did do the bleach and water treatment--maybe do it again?
 
I seem to always have at least one cow limping. Unless I can see something wrong or feel sure that it is footrot, I just leave them alone and they heal up. Maybe yours' just had a injury similar to a bruise or sprained ankle and it was on it's way to healing up and it was reinjured. I'm not saying to just ignore it, but if it was mine I would give it a week or even two before going through the trouble of running here into the chute.
 
Caution, just don't under dose or not treat long enough with your antibiotics, or you develope resistant organisms. Getting better after the LA 200 tells me it was probably an infection. A relapse of symptoms tells me that you did not treat long enough.
 
The cow I'm talking about had a calf back on Feb. 11 and dropped another healthy calf 2 days ago! She is walking around fine now! My friend who's cow it is swears she had that calf back on Feb. 11 and now she had another one 2 days ago. The calf is healthy, nursing and following mama everywhere she goes.
 
tncattle":1uoaafhb said:
The cow I'm talking about had a calf back on Feb. 11 and dropped another healthy calf 2 days ago! She is walking around fine now! My friend who's cow it is swears she had that calf back on Feb. 11 and now she had another one 2 days ago. The calf is healthy, nursing and following mama everywhere she goes.
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Hmmmmmmm.....
 
tncattle":6bvnsals said:
The cow I'm talking about had a calf back on Feb. 11 and dropped another healthy calf 2 days ago! She is walking around fine now! My friend who's cow it is swears she had that calf back on Feb. 11 and now she had another one 2 days ago. The calf is healthy, nursing and following mama everywhere she goes.
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Theoretically possible if the new one is a month premature :?:
I thought for a moment there you were talking about twins. Time does fly as you get older.
 
tncattle":1bzfapp9 said:
The cow I'm talking about had a calf back on Feb. 11 and dropped another healthy calf 2 days ago! She is walking around fine now! My friend who's cow it is swears she had that calf back on Feb. 11 and now she had another one 2 days ago. The calf is healthy, nursing and following mama everywhere she goes.
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If she was heavy in calf, it was probably pressing on a nerve causing the limp. Or simply due to the extra weight she was packing around. Won't comment on the "calving" dates.......something's off.
 

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