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Comment on Foot rot? by devkota

devkota — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:57:47 +0000

hi this dewkota from almarai compani aldanah dairy frma in ksa /
is that problem usually occured in high cow what is main cause ?

Comment on Korean Veterinarian – Gi Ung by Daniel Z.

Daniel Z. — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:16:59 +0000

Recently I read about Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak in South Korea, Could Gi Ung explain us what kind of biosecurity measures they are enforcing?
regards
Daniel Zalduendo

Comment on Korean Veterinarian – Gi Ung by Daniel Z.

Daniel Z. — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:09:52 +0000

Recently I read about Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak in South Korea, Could Gi Ung explain us what kind of biosecurity measures they are enforcing?
regards
Daniel Zalduendo

Comment on really chronic!! by Anka

Anka — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:11:29 +0000

I translate to English Dominique comment:
This deep dermatitis is ata 5 yr old cow lame long ago, i had to trim 10 cm (4 inch) of horn and find the stinky necrosis along the horn. Limb muscles deformed. I treated with a HOOF FIT GEL dressing.
dominique Bernier Bi Pediluve innov'space

Comment on really chronic!! by dbernier

dbernier — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:55:45 +0000

cette dermatite profonde est sur une vache âgée de 5 ans , elle boite depuis de très longs mois, sa corne à couper est de 10 cm, et la nécrose nauséabonde suit l'allongement de la corne. Sa musculature est toute déformée. Je l'ai traitée avec un pansement de HOOF FIT GEL.
dominique Bernier Bi Pediluve innov'space

Comment on really chronic!! by Anka

Anka — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:20:59 +0000

True those deep pododerma necrosis are tipically found at farms with poor hoof trimming program, during the first years we started in bussiness we found often among new clients, most of the times long deformed toes with stinky damaged corion, but p3 necrosis was not so usual. I am asking Dominique if in this case p3 was damaged. More cently consulting in Mexico and Uruguay farms we could also find this kind of chronically lame cows with lesions 1 or more years old and never treated.

Comment on White line healing after bandage by Gerard

Gerard — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:01:32 +0000

Adrian, thanks for response and I completely agree, your suggestion has been my approach for our smaller herds, except prior to this discussion I've been trying to convince farmers to have me out every 6 weeks and call me in between these visits for the other lame cows. Its a struggle but some are starting to buy in, but I think I need to be on farm more often yet. I charge hourly not per cow and have a set up fee so that helps from my end, but its the perception of high cost that is peoples first response. They easily forget the cost of the lame cow.
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Comment on really chronic!! by Gerard

Gerard — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:52:07 +0000

Nice toe necrosis, picture, was P3 necrotic too?
I see too many of these in new clients herds, but have good success being aggressive using local block and resecting toe and part of P3 back to healthy tissue. I have video and pics if interested in seeing.

Comment on White line healing after bandage by Anka

Anka — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:19:02 +0000

Gerard:
In fact I think the cow of the picture got only one treatment the day the banadge video was taken, then one week later the farmer removed the bandage and applied antibiotic spray at the parlor. is it so loris?

Comment on White line healing after bandage by Anka

Anka — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:24:07 +0000

good question Gerard!
It is very rare to find a farmer willing to pay twice for treating the same cow in a short delay of time. But I am more and more convinced this is really cost effective. Prevalence express real cash flow losses and it is very much linked to poor healing and in consequence chronic cows.. So lame cows and chronic cows treatment conditionate the hoof trimming program. For me the most cost effective hoof trimming program is the one based in satisfying the lame cows needs, then I organize non lame cows. The more often you go to the farm to deal with few animals the more chances has the lame cow of getting what she needs at an affordable price. I have observed in farms we visit once a week that the number of chornic cows is very low; even though lameness incidence can be high, prevalence keeps low, this means few lame cows in the farm small cash flow repercussion The bigger is the farm the easier is to do that. but how to get once a week to one 100 cows farm? if you get 5 cows in the crush every week you trim every cow an average of 2.5 times a year what seems to me OK Some cows get almost i trim7yr others can get 10), you can even trim 6 cows/visit. This can take to you around 2 hours including the time for installing and washing the chute + traveling expenses. How much you need to charge for that? May be you can manage visiting those farms once every 2 weeks and lame cows still get a non bad follow up.
adrian