Help for foot rot?

[Andy]

Last year in the feedlot we had a steer that got a single strand off of a 3/8s cable around his foot. And somehow it got tangled and acted like a snare. It had cut in to the flesh right above the hoof to the point where you couldn't even see it. If it had been there much longer i think that calf may have lost a foot. Most likely not what happened to your cow, but i thought i would share.

[Aaron]

I agree with BMR. We treat over 3 days with full dose, low-pain oxytetracycline. We currently have our old bull recovering from a bad case of foot rot in his left back leg. His son, is now having problems with cracks in his hooves, and has slowed him down considerably.

[Big Muddy rancher]

We should start a thread with all the things that we have found on cattle and horses feet.
Once we picked up a yearling that was limping and it had a broken quart sealer jar around it's foot and another time a bull had half hitched a peice of fine eletic fence wire around it's leg. Could not figure out what was cause this until felt in the cut and had to dig in with a pair of side cutter to cut the wire.
We had a horse the that had some thing shiny on the sole of its foot, turned out to be a ledger plat off a mower guard wit the rivet still in it and stuck in the foot.

[Mike]

[Kato]

Here's our favourite secret remedy.

First make sure it's not an abscess or crack problem though. We use this on chronic footrot, and it also works on joints that get swollen from haemophilus. Everyone says you can't cure swollen joints, but we've never had it fail. It's more of a horse style remedy than cow style, but it works. We've been doing this for fifteen years now.

Soak the foot for about a half an hour in warm water with some hibitaine or other such antibacterial soap. They really like this, and you'd be amazed at how they will just stand there. Then mix about a third of a tube of Domoso gel with 50 cc of Liqua LA. (Any kind of Oxy will work, but it needs to be water based) Take a roll of 4 inch gauze, and roll out enough soak up the mixture. Then wrap it around the leg, using up all the gauze. Cover it with vetrap. Give him a big shot of some long acting antibiotic. We use Nuflor if the LA has failed in the past. Then let him go.

If you put the bandage on properly, it will stay on a very long time. Wear gloves. Otherwise you will taste the domoso! This stuff is a powerful anti-inflammatory, but also has the ability to carry the LA right into the tissues. It takes a few days, but you should see an improvement. The secret to a good bandage is to wrap it so that if you are looking down from above, the bandage goes clockwise on the right legs and couterclockwise on the left legs. Done that way they usually stay on for us until we catch the animal and cut them off.

[frenchie]

[PPRM]

If it is footrot,


have had best luck with Tylan and Copertox. I generally like to give something other than Oxytet or LA if I can. It is a matter of medicine rotation in my book. If I treat everything with tetracyclines, pretty soon it could be less effective. Plus, Tylan deal has always worked for me,

PPRM

[Denny]

We usally just rope them and give them 60cc's of LA 200 has been working well all summer have had alot of it this summer.

[Border rancher]

Thank you for the suggestions everyone!
We have been waiting to see what the last antibiotics, the Propen LA and the sulpha boluses would do and the cow is better. The hind hoof wasn't cracking above the toe like the front was. The hind is much better and the leakage from the front foot has almost stopped. I don't know if the drugs, all or any of them, caused the improvement. Should I re-dose with any of them or hope the hoof rot has run it's course and will get better now?

[DOC HARRIS]

[TLC Farms]

The best thing that we have found to treat footrot with is Nuflor. Usually we see results by the next day.

[DOC HARRIS]