Feet problems

So we have a big cow that has really bad feet. We feed ear meal all winter two years ago. We didnt notice anything abou her feet until that summer when she would just limp around, so this winter we trimmed her feet and she was 100% better. But now that she is back on pasture she is limping and we are wondering if she has foot rot or something. Does anyone have any ideas of what is wrong here or what I should do.

I don't know where you are located but I know around texas hoof rot has been pretty bad.  If that is what it is best way to treat is Micotil, Bio-Mycin, or LA 200.  Good luck.

I'm in new brunswick canada

My guess would be founder

orwell said:

So we have a big cow that has really bad feet. We feed ear meal all winter two years ago. We didnt notice anything abou her feet until that summer when she would just limp around, so this winter we trimmed her feet and she was 100% better. But now that she is back on pasture she is limping and we are wondering if she has foot rot or something. Does anyone have any ideas of what is wrong here or what I should do.

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Sounds like foot rot. I would get her up and give her a dose of excede, penicillin, and enough sulfa pills for her weight. I would also put a healthy dose of bentadine or kopertox on the foot, and try to get a hoof pick in there to discard any dead tissue. If she is not better in 5-6 days, I would repeat but use Draxxin instead of excede. This is a relativley expensive protocol, but I like it for foot rot.

After you get her back to normal, ship her off to the yards. Otherwise you need to do twice annual hoof trimmings.

Are you sure it is a hoof problem? If is a rear leg then she may have injured her stifle joint and that is not treatable.  I have a nine year old cow that injured her stifle joint and limps occasionally.  Just want to get one more calf out of her and then she is gone.

Bulldaddy said:

Are you sure it is a hoof problem? If is a rear leg then she may have injured her stifle joint and that is not treatable.  I have a nine year old cow that injured her stifle joint and limps occasionally.  Just want to get one more calf out of her and then she is gone.

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Good point, to identify foot rot get down and smell the foot. You will know if it is foot rot.

If it doesn't smell and there is no necrosis, then it is probably a stifle issue. Last year I had a 7 year old bull and a 12 year old cow go down in a breeding injury gone wrong. If I hadn't seen it myself, I would have never believed it. Bull mounted cow and his foot landed in a hole. This caused him to slip and hurt his stifle. The cow, somehow, went down from the jostle. She never got up, and I had to put her down. I put the bull down about 10 days later after he wouldn't get better.

we are thinking that she has a foot abcess

Does she have any up an down craxks in her hoof or she might have broke a pice of hoof of an will get well with time ....

I've sat here and read this thread quite a few times... and continue to wonder... could it be screw toe? The reason I wonder this is you said you had feet trimmed and she was fine again. Are her toes long and curling?... Just a thought.

Her toes were long and curling and because of this she was walking on the back of her feet, so we trimmed them and she was fine. But now she is limping but my dad said that he noticed an abcess

We had one with screw toe for 4 years but she got around ok on it so we never sent her to the sale until she lost a calf.  I think it affects em all differently