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Lame heifer

  • 17-11-2015 11:28am
    #1
    bogman_bass
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    I have a heifer with a large bleeding ulcer between her toes on her front foot. I sprayed it with alamycin spray and gave her a shot of Antibiotics. Is there any other treatment I should do with her?


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  • #2
    Bullocks
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    bogman_bass wrote: »
    I have a heifer with a large bleeding ulcer between her toes on her front foot. I sprayed it with alamycin spray and gave her a shot of Antibiotics. Is there any other treatment I should do with her?

    I was into the vet this week with a heifer that had just calved and went lame between the toes , they gave her 40 ml of LA Alamycin and the same 2 days later . She is still a bit lame but better than she was


  • #3
    bogman_bass
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    Was that for a foul though?


  • #4
    Milked out
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    Have a similar issue here with a cow, front lef one of the vets said the best job might be for him to remove it surgically. Will try the spray first awkward yoke to treat on front leg


  • #5
    bogman_bass
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    Milked out wrote: »
    Have a similar issue here with a cow, front lef one of the vets said the best job might be for him to remove it surgically. Will try the spray first awkward yoke to treat on front leg

    Yeah this is a front left too. Thank Christ it was the left one that I could get at it


  • #6
    Base price
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    Over the years we would have had cattle with foul.
    I found that the best treatment was antibiotics prescribed by the vet and a bran poultice.
    Cut the corner off a fertiliser bag or hessian sack (fertiliser bags are best as the plastic is thicker) about a foot up. Fill the base of the bag with a mixture of warm soaked bran with epsom salts (3 to 1 dry weight) and put the bag over hoof. Not an easy task unless you have the animals leg held rigid in the crush. Fill more of the mixture into the bag to cover the hoof. Get some cotton wool and place around the animals leg - on the inside of the bag. Wrap the bag around the cotton wool and seal with silage tape to keep it from slipping off. Be careful now to wrap the tape too tightly on the leg as it could cut off the blood supply to the joint. Cut another larger corner from a fertiliser bag and fill the base with hay or straw - this acts like a cushion. Fit over the first bag (already on the leg) add more straw to cover the hoof/crubes and warp with silage tape.
    Change this dressing twice daily if you can but at least once per day.
    You could use Animalintex or a babies nappy but I find that they are too cumbersome to get between the clefts (sp).


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