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Foot dipping dairy cows

  • 17-10-2013 1:32pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭


    Up North in my area all the farmers mainly have high yielding Holstein cows and foot dipping seems to be at least a weekly routine with the foot problems those ladies are prone to.
    Just wondering with the Friesien/jersy cross or indeed the straight forward Friesiens that are predominant in the South - do you have much feet bother at all and do you foot dip during the year?? My herd is lower yielding Friesien and i hardly ever foot dip and have few feet problems?? Not that i am looking for any either!!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    I send the cows through a copper sulphate bath about every 2/3 weeks, the amount of lameness depends on what the weather is like I find, and the distance the cows are walking. Alot of the lameness is with repeat offenders however, ladies who need to be culled, but not a luxury I have at the minute.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭Farfield


    Yea I use formaldehyde once every 6 weeks or but that's about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    All cows through bath for 2 milkings every two weeks
    Alternate bluestone and formal

    Lames kept in hospital paddock and OAD

    Hoof guy every month for summer and does last row


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭dar31


    one fill of the foot bath per 150 cows (formalyne)
    3 consecutive days once a month.
    lame cows oad beside parlour
    very few problems this year


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