dawnrogerl":3nnw32dc said:Sounds interesting Lucky_P, do you have any idea what a procedure like that could cost? I might add, they are on all four hoofs. The others are not as large as this one. She is also a $4,000. donor cow.
Treatment:
Systemic therapy, including the use of antibiotics, is not cost effective. In severe cases, the lesions should be cleaned and dried, after which a topical bacteriostatic agent is applied, eg, a 50% mixture of sulfamethazine powder and anhydrous copper sulfate. Alternatively, an animal can be confined in a footbath for 1 hr, bid for 3 days.
Control:
Good management and housing systems to keep claws dry and clean are most important. Regular foot trimming helps avoid complications. Foot bathing, beginning in late fall and before clinical cases can be identified during high-risk periods, is essential in herds known to be infected. Weekly foot bathing may be sufficient in the late fall, but the frequency may have to be increased in late winter.
Cheap cows don't get this condition. Just the expensive ones. :cowboy:dawnrogerl":3qgku7nr said:Sounds interesting Lucky_P, do you have any idea what a procedure like that could cost? I might add, they are on all four hoofs. The others are not as large as this one. She is also a $4,000. donor cow.
Not always. We bought a bargain heifer, bred her 3 times and got a dink the first time, a no tailed calf the second and a runt the third, but by then she was laying around more then she was eating. The good part was that as a kill cow she sold for almost twice what I paid for her originally.TexasBred":2irdbs8m said:Cheap cows don't get this condition. Just the expensive ones. :cowboy: