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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1845632" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>Well her is a photo of my bull, well his feet anyway. If you blow it up you will get a pretty good picture of his foot. Basically he has laminitis. He went out with the cows mid October just on grass, very sound, I noticed him always walking slowly about mid November but was still working the cows. I pulled him and took him back to the bull paddock early December and then over Xmas he really got lame with bleeding ulcerations around the coronet. At the moment he is getting around reasonably well but slow. You can see where there is some smooth hoof growing down about an inch and then you come to all the rings and then distorted toes. I am hoping good hoof will continue to grow down over winter and that he will shed the old hoof.</p><p>I had something similar happen the year before last to a heifer calf over the summer, she was a twin and got very sore in her feet in the 2nd half of summer and by weaning time she was mostly grazing on her knees. I was going to shoot her a couple of times but she still had a good appetite so perservered. By spring her new feet had grown down and she started shedding the old hoof. I have had changes in pregnant heifers when they are in good condition prior to calving, they haven't been lame but badly distorted feet which have eventually grown out into very sound feet.. I have no experience with Fescue and don't think I have any in my summer pasture though early on I did drop some out behind deep ripping. I do think this is caused by some form of endophyte or something similar in my summer grasses that the occaisional animal may selectively graze. Any ideas?[ATTACH=full]42360[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1845632, member: 16453"] Well her is a photo of my bull, well his feet anyway. If you blow it up you will get a pretty good picture of his foot. Basically he has laminitis. He went out with the cows mid October just on grass, very sound, I noticed him always walking slowly about mid November but was still working the cows. I pulled him and took him back to the bull paddock early December and then over Xmas he really got lame with bleeding ulcerations around the coronet. At the moment he is getting around reasonably well but slow. You can see where there is some smooth hoof growing down about an inch and then you come to all the rings and then distorted toes. I am hoping good hoof will continue to grow down over winter and that he will shed the old hoof. I had something similar happen the year before last to a heifer calf over the summer, she was a twin and got very sore in her feet in the 2nd half of summer and by weaning time she was mostly grazing on her knees. I was going to shoot her a couple of times but she still had a good appetite so perservered. By spring her new feet had grown down and she started shedding the old hoof. I have had changes in pregnant heifers when they are in good condition prior to calving, they haven't been lame but badly distorted feet which have eventually grown out into very sound feet.. I have no experience with Fescue and don't think I have any in my summer pasture though early on I did drop some out behind deep ripping. I do think this is caused by some form of endophyte or something similar in my summer grasses that the occaisional animal may selectively graze. Any ideas?[ATTACH type="full"]42360[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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