Mortellaro cures

liam7831

What do people use for this? i see in an old thread someone mentioned Lincospectin 100, any other suggetions or is this the best option? Thanks,

freedominacup

liam7831 wrote: »

What do people use for this? i see in an old thread someone mentioned Lincospectin 100, any other suggetions or is this the best option? Thanks,

Wash hooves spray on linco with knapsack or garden sprayer. Footbathing with blue stone or formalin regularly helps a lot. Hard to cure but easy to treat iykwim. Easy enough to keep on top of too. Plenty of footbathing. Healmax seems to be the new treatment of choice.

White Clover

freedominacup wrote: »

Wash hooves spray on linco with knapsack or garden sprayer. Footbathing with blue stone or formalin regularly helps a lot. Hard to cure but easy to treat iykwim. Easy enough to keep on top of too. Plenty of footbathing. Healmax seems to be the new treatment of choice.

It's important to vary treatment too.

liam7831

Will buy the Healmax, it aint cheap though 220 euro for 20 litre, but cheap if it works i guess

White Clover

liam7831 wrote: »

Will buy the Healmax, it aint cheap though 220 euro for 20 litre, but cheap if it works i guess

If they're very bad they'll need paring first. No point trying to harden rotten hoof horn, this needs to be taken off first to get good horn coming back. Footbath then to harden hoof and keep mortellaro out.

liam7831

White Clover wrote: »

If they're very bad they'll need paring first. No point trying to harden rotten hoof horn, this needs to be taken off first to get good horn coming back. Footbath then to harden hoof and keep mortellaro out.

Thanks ya we pared them already, was using blue stone in the footbath. Is the best option Lincospectin and Healmax both sprayed on after washing the foot. Could buy the 20L Healmax and use in footbath too you think?

White Clover

liam7831 wrote: »

Thanks ya we pared them already, was using blue stone in the footbath. Is the best option Lincospectin and Healmax both sprayed on after washing the foot. Could buy the 20L Healmax and use in footbath too you think?

Was the bluestone not hardening the hooves?

liam7831

White Clover wrote: »

Was the bluestone not hardening the hooves?

Ya but only released we had this in the last week or so, new bull recently brought it in id say

White Clover

liam7831 wrote: »

Ya but only released we had this in the last week or so, new bull recently brought it in id say

The bluestone should do the trick now that they've been pared. Or as others have recommended, use Healmax.
Hygiene in cubicle houses is important too, don't allow dung to build up in corners, behind scrapers etc.

greysides

White Clover wrote: »

If they're very bad they'll need paring first. No point trying to harden rotten hoof horn, this needs to be taken off first to get good horn coming back. Footbath then to harden hoof and keep mortellaro out.

I don't follow this. Keeping hooves well shaped is always a good idea but Mortellaro is a disease of the skin.

Keepgrowing

greysides wrote: »

I don't follow this. Keeping hooves well shaped is always a good idea but Mortellaro is a disease of the skin.

Correct and is evident between the claws and easily visible from the back.
Healmax gel spray in parlour, some may need paring and a bandage applied. These need to be put in a paddock and oad milked till they recover.

Slurry heel, interdigital dermatitis or Mortelarro are highly contagious so a foot bath is recommended. There's a school of though that it can spread even more due to foot bathing.

Max 180 cows through a foot bath per milking and mix fresh for each milking. I've attached a label and if you follow this you'll be well on your way to control though I suspect it'll never disappear

Keepgrowing

Label

whelan2

Where can you get heel max

Keepgrowing

whelan2 wrote: »

Where can you get heel max

Our glanbia store sticks it. Get a gel spray aswell for parlour. It comes ready to use in applicator

White Clover

greysides wrote: »

I don't follow this. Keeping hooves well shaped is always a good idea but Mortellaro is a disease of the skin.

Mortellaro aka strawberry foot rot. Gets its name as it looks like the inside of a strawberry on the hoof, no doubting the smell tho.

liam7831

White Clover wrote: »

Mortellaro aka strawberry foot rot. Gets its name as it looks like the inside of a strawberry on the hoof, no doubting the smell tho.

yes paring aint going to get you far in this occasion

orm0nd

whelan2 wrote: »

Where can you get heel max

locally here Centenary Co-Op

or online

https://www.greggcare.ie/category/animal-health

Chris.

Hoof trimmer by trade here. My advice: Anything that has it foot needs to be lifted, infection cleaned and dried. Use a topical product containing copper and zinc (hoof-fit gel or solka hoof gel) and wrap with a bandage. Remove after 48 hours.

Keep anything with the mortellaro out of the footbath until there healed because it only really irritates, inflames the lesion. Causes alot of pain too.

On the footbath id recommend a copper bath as being the best (also being one of the most economical) but it needs an acidifier (bit of peracetic acid will do). The acidifier keeps the copper suspended in the bath stops the majority of it from lying on the bottom of the bath.

My motto on hoof products is if i cant spell the ingredients off the top of my head i dont use it. On healmax i have no experience with the footbath solution but i have tried the gel solution and i found it very hard on healthy skin and horn.

Just my two cents hope this helps.

Chris.

greysides wrote: »

I don't follow this. Keeping hooves well shaped is always a good idea but Mortellaro is a disease of the skin.

On paper mortellaro is a disease of the skin but in recent years its infecting any lesion on the hoof ( ulcers, white line disease, sole fractures etc) preventitive hoof care is very important as it stops these problems before they start. A properly modelled out hoof will stop alot of the build up of dung between the claws helping to stop a mortellaro infection from starting.

White Clover

Chris. wrote: »

On paper mortellaro is a disease of the skin but in recent years its infecting any lesion on the hoof ( ulcers, white line disease, sole fractures etc) preventitive hoof care is very important as it stops these problems before they start. A properly modelled out hoof will stop alot of the build up of dung between the claws helping to stop a mortellaro infection from starting.

This is exactly my experience of mortellaro. Injecting/spraying/footbathing before paring away the nasty stuff from the hoof is akin to pissing against the wind.