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foot rot

  • 20-02-2016 10:17pm
    #1
    Tomjim
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    I bought ewe lambs last August. I noticed them with footrot last September.

    I only injected them with alemicen last weekend Did I leave it too late to cure them


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  • #2
    The man in red and black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 668 ✭✭✭The man in red and black


    You might have for some of them. They may have turned into chronic cases at this point and if don't respond to one round of long acting antibiotics then very unlikely to do well long term.


  • #3
    IH784man
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    If you saw them limping about in September would you not sort it out instead of leaving it to now?

    Did you clip the feet on them?


  • #4
    Tomjim
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    The infection is gone out of the feet but some of their hooves needs to be clipped, as some are still lame (my opinion due to the length of their hooves)

    I take it I will do no harm by clipping, I see in other posts that sheep with foot rot should not be clipped


  • #5
    fanadman1
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    Goin to hijack this thread. I have one ewe with serous infection around her feet its defo not footrot i think it may be lamitus or c.o.d.d could someone offer help on this


  • #6
    tomwaterford
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    fanadman1 wrote: »
    Goin to hijack this thread. I have one ewe with serous infection around her feet its defo not footrot i think it may be lamitus or c.o.d.d could someone offer help on this

    Have she lambs??

    If not factory.....assuming codd is same thing dairy cows get (V.infevtious)


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  • #7
    fanadman1
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    She has 2 lambs. If she was mine it would be out the gate but it belongs to my younger cousin who runs a few sheeo in my flock.


  • #8
    tomwaterford
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    fanadman1 wrote: »
    She has 2 lambs. If she was mine it would be out the gate but it belongs to my younger cousin who runs a few sheeo in my flock.

    Emm put her in and trim back I guess/treat with alamycin spray??

    And penstrep....though I'm sure there'll be someone along who knows much better than me for best treatment here


  • #9
    Jack180570
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    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Emm put her in and trim back I guess/treat with alamycin spray??

    And penstrep....though I'm sure there'll be someone along who knows much better than me for best treatment here

    Oxipra 20 LA would be the best injection for footrot... its a long acting oxytetracycline which means you do not have to inject every day. We are gone organic so we mostly focus on prevention... standing sheep in warm bluestone footbath for 3-5min every couple of months... have gone from around 20 cases of footrot a year to 2 or 3... We do almost no foot trimming now


  • #10
    Ard_MC
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    Jack180570 wrote: »
    Oxipra 20 LA would be the best injection for footrot... its a long acting oxytetracycline which means you do not have to inject every day. We are gone organic so we mostly focus on prevention... standing sheep in warm bluestone footbath for 3-5min every couple of months... have gone from around 20 cases of footrot a year to 2 or 3... We do almost no foot trimming now

    Why warm bluestone? And what temp/concentration do you use?


  • #11
    Jack180570
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    Ard_MC wrote: »
    Why warm bluestone? And what temp/concentration do you use?

    The main reason its warm is because we use 70-80 degree water when we are making up the bluestone solution to make sure the bluestone dissolves properly and we make it up on the day so it is warm when using it.
    The second reason is that when its warm the pores of the skin between the claws open more and the solution can penetrate deeper.
    It would not be more than 35/40d when we are using it.

    We use a 10% solution... 2kg in a 20ltr drum..

    We get the stove piping hot
    half fill the drum with v hot water - add 2kg bluestone and put on cork - shake very well for about 20 sec taking care to release the hot air a couple of time so the drum doesnt burst... then fill up the rest of the drum with v hot water.

    Stove will have enough hot water for about 5 drums which is enough for about 80 sheep... if you have more then its just to top up the footbaths so another 3 drums would do another 80-100 sheep.

    Like I said above, I think the most important thing is to sand them in the footbath for about 5 min per batch.

    Earlier this year I brought back a batch of ewes from the hill that we were feeding on the hill and about 20 of them were lame... footbathed when they came back with the warm solution and 4 days later put them through again...
    within a week not one of them was lame.


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