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Big footrot outbreak in Minnesota

I normally treated 15-20 head a year for footrot until I started mixing Aureomycin with the mineral last year. I'm a little worried about immunity problems but sure is nice not to have to treat footrot!
 
Sure Aaron but I will need to take my computer into get fixed as it crapped out on me.. Using my wife's Apple, which is supper nice, but I don't want to load all the software programs on it and make it die too, lol because than I will have to dead computers and a made wife....

I don't like to put ctc or anything in my mineral that calves consume but that is just a persoal preference... I have to say though, the foot rot is bugging me a bit having to treat. One as already been double treated as his was reall pretty bad. Going to have to scout again today for any limpers, amazing how they limp so bad until you try to catch them and than they are off to the races.
 
The only real problems we ever had with it was when we would have bulls come down with it.. Seemed that at least 50% of the critters that got it in a year would be bulls and always a hind leg which would knock them out for a season basically. We started vaccinating the bulls for it last year but in discussing it with the vet for the rest of our herd she told us it probably would have almost no affect for the cow herd as the incidence in the cowherd was low in general and that most places that she vaccinated for it would still get 2-3% incidence.. I agreed and last year didn't have a single case of it so I guess this year is catchup.. Now, I wouldn't dream of not vaccinating for pinkeye.
 
We just got in from gathering the 200 + head bunch and we've got over 12 head sorted off to treat. Quite a few yearling bulls in this sort.

We will go out after lunch and doctor them and I am going to keep them in the corral and doctor all of them again in a couple days. With massive amounts of Oxcytet. Hopefully it will help. They are going to new pasture so maybe that will help also.
 
I must have miscounted earlier. We ended up treating about 25. some were probably on the mend, but I'm sick of this, so anything that showed the slightest sings of it got a big shot. 2 who were real bad, got Micotil. Hopefully, it will help. Going to fresh pasture with a dry base around the waterer might help also.

Salebarn man came and looked at the other bunch and if he knows anything about what cattle weigh (and I kind of think he does) they have been gaining 2 pounds a head a day. Not too bad fort noe mineral, just grass salt and water.

He claimed the peavine or beans that is growing this year will really put the pounds on after they dry up, so our gains should stay good through the normally dry period. I'll hope so anyway. :-)

Now if we could catch a good inch or two of rain with no lightning, why everything would be so fine, I'd probably smile more and grump less. :wink: :lol:
 
JB, we have covered this ground before, and I know feeding mineral is out of your hands since others own the cattle. But one of my customers who runs 1500 yearlings has had ONLY ONE with hoofrot this summer.
They weighed 700 head of those yearlings this week and they are gaining over 3 lbs./day.

I sure wish the folks who run yearlings on your place would see the light.
When cattle have hoofrot, they sure aren't gaining and it is so hard
on those who have to doctor the buggers. I remember in W. Montana, when our cattle got hoofrot, sometimes they didn't respond to treatment and would have to have a toe cut off, or even be sold because the infection would get in the bone and go up the leg.

Hoofrot and navel ill...I positively HATE both those problems.

Good luck to you, I hope you are getting over the hump. And let me
know if you think the owners of the yearlings would like to find out how NOT to have hoofrot. I know my customer would sure talk to them. He's a happy camper and has been for years, not having to doctor cattle.
(Course his horses aren't as good as yours anymore... :wink: )

I just read all the posts under this thread. It is my experience that if you have to treat anything more than once, the immune system isn't up to par. Now if that happens on one individual animal, I wouldn't worry about it, but if you get several that need doctored more than once, your mineral isn't doing the job it should be. And just because cattle eat mineral readily, doesn't mean it is good mineral. Check to see how much grain is in it for flavor.

Good luck to all of you who are having hoof rot problems. NOT FUN!!!
 
IL Rancher wrote:
I gotta tell you, everytime I see this post the first thing that I read is bigfoot outbreak instead of big footrot outbreak Laughing Laughing Laughing
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And I thought I was the only one!
 
Jinglebob said:
I must have miscounted earlier. We ended up treating about 25. some were probably on the mend, but I'm sick of this, so anything that showed the slightest sings of it got a big shot. 2 who were real bad, got Micotil. Hopefully, it will help. Going to fresh pasture with a dry base around the waterer might help also.

Salebarn man came and looked at the other bunch and if he knows anything about what cattle weigh (and I kind of think he does) they have been gaining 2 pounds a head a day. Not too bad fort noe mineral, just grass salt and water.

He claimed the peavine or beans that is growing this year will really put the pounds on after they dry up, so our gains should stay good through the normally dry period. I'll hope so anyway. :-)

Now if we could catch a good inch or two of rain with no lightning, why everything would be so fine, I'd probably smile more and grump less. :wink: :lol:
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i wouldn't send them to the new pasture too quick unless u have too- we have had to treat about half of our cases this year more than once.
 
So glad to hear that I wasn't the only one.. Than I hear today that there was a bigfoot expedition in the UP of Michigan recently.. 300 bucks a person for a 4 night camping trip, sold out.. Actuall, 75 bucks a night probably isn't that bad in the grnad scheme of things, they were probably lucky they didn't get taking for 3000 for the 4 days.
 

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