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Foot foul

  • 02-06-2016 12:17pm
    #1
    tanko
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    Six weeks ago i got a fella with a hoof crush to pare the feet of three cows who weren't lame but had long toes, they were fine afterwards but this week two of them developed foot foul and had to be treated with antibiotics. I've never seen foot foul here before.
    I'm assuming that the fella who pared them infected the cows because he used dirty knives. Would I be correct in thinking this?


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  • #2
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,046 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    Fusobacterium necrophorum is considered the major cause of footrot. It can be isolated from faeces, in which it may survive as a saprophyte, which may explain why control is difficult. It can also survive in moist soil. Injury to the interdigital skin provides a portal of entry for infection. Maceration of the skin by water, faeces, and urine may predispose to injuries.

    I'd be slow to blame anyone given how ubiquitous faecal matter is.

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  • #3
    Milked out
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    Is it mortellaro?


  • #4
    tanko
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    Milked out wrote: »
    Is it mortellaro?

    I don't think so, three days of Tylosin cured it anyway.


  • #5
    Milked out
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    As greysides said could be any number of reasons it appeared. We got mortellaro when the new herd was bought never had it in old herd that was cleared out. It can get in very easy but very hard to get rid off.
    Anyway If it's not that I was talking to neighbour a few wks back about paring and he said years ago they used to do preventative hoof timing but they eventually stopped as the found it actually made the hoof soft for the few days after paring and caused more issues so they just go when noticed now. Perhaps that's how you're two got it after


  • #6
    Count Mondego
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    Strange to get it in this weather. Last may I was plagued with it, 3 cows in one week. It was hot with heavy rainfall. The masterject is the job for doing them out in the field.


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  • #7
    Miname
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    The master ject would make a great job of sucklers, they'd be fair sharp in the field if you went around sticking them while walking through them.


  • #8
    Count Mondego
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    Miname wrote: »
    The master ject would make a great job of sucklers, they'd be fair sharp in the field if you went around sticking them while walking through them.

    You need to be cute. Sneak up in them when they're lying down. You'll get them for 2 of the 3 days and on the last day the hoors are wary of you and hoof almost better, so they'll scoot off alright. That still saves you bringing them into the crush 2/3 of the time.


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