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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1816963" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Unless she was foundered from too much grain for some reason (like a show animal) our experience has been that it tends to be hereditary... we kept a couple heifers out of the one cow we bought with the very long, fast growing toe, and 2 of the 3 developed "long toes".... so we do not keep any out of the cows now... But they put big strapping calves on the ground and other than the toe, are not any sort of problems.... so for terminal animals it is not a big deal. </p><p>Mind you, we do not go around "trimming feet" like so many dairies do because these animals are not stuck on concrete and fed all that high protein feed... don't get strawberry warts and foot rot and such like dairy animals are prone to with the concentrated walking in manure and on the concrete. But not a big deal for an otherwise productive cow to trim her foot/toe once a year or so. </p><p>To get a vet out special you would pay the vet call and all those fees....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1816963, member: 25884"] Unless she was foundered from too much grain for some reason (like a show animal) our experience has been that it tends to be hereditary... we kept a couple heifers out of the one cow we bought with the very long, fast growing toe, and 2 of the 3 developed "long toes".... so we do not keep any out of the cows now... But they put big strapping calves on the ground and other than the toe, are not any sort of problems.... so for terminal animals it is not a big deal. Mind you, we do not go around "trimming feet" like so many dairies do because these animals are not stuck on concrete and fed all that high protein feed... don't get strawberry warts and foot rot and such like dairy animals are prone to with the concentrated walking in manure and on the concrete. But not a big deal for an otherwise productive cow to trim her foot/toe once a year or so. To get a vet out special you would pay the vet call and all those fees.... [/QUOTE]
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