serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
It has sorted mild scald early on in lambs I found .
CODD and other sheep ailments that pee you off
- Thread starter JSmith
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- Location
- north Wales
[PDF] Towards a greater understanding of contagious ovine digital dermatitis (CODD): an epidemiological approach | Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Towards a greater understanding of contagious ovine digital dermatitis (CODD): an epidemiological approach" by J. Angell
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That's the most indepth research into codd I know about....but Its about 370 pages long!!
- Location
- north Wales
Sorry, useless for CODD I meant
- Location
- N.Lincs
Never had CODD here until I bought it in with some store lambs the year before last
We've about 10 or 12 ewes isolated at the moment. Vet suggested Oxytet and formalin footbath - waste of time (and Oxytet).
Done 'em with Draxxin and formalin footbath twice this last week and all but 1 are sound now
. The one that's still a bit lame is ten times better than it was
We've about 10 or 12 ewes isolated at the moment. Vet suggested Oxytet and formalin footbath - waste of time (and Oxytet).
Done 'em with Draxxin and formalin footbath twice this last week and all but 1 are sound now
. The one that's still a bit lame is ten times better than it was 
- Location
- Devon
They can remain a bit lame almost permanently if there's damage to the bone.Never had CODD here until I bought it in with some store lambs the year before last
We've about 10 or 12 ewes isolated at the moment. Vet suggested Oxytet and formalin footbath - waste of time (and Oxytet).
Done 'em with Draxxin and formalin footbath twice this last week and all but 1 are sound now
- Location
- N.Lincs
- Location
- N.Lincs
- Location
- north Wales
You are right, as this xray shows it can penetrate deep into the flesh and even the bone, which is why footbaths (not even double strength formalin
) or antibiotics in footbaths will cure it. Probably helps with slowing down the spread rate though
- Location
- north Wales
Bit of a task!!!Care to 'give us the gist'? - just to save us all having to read it
Off the top of my head,it's 4 years since I last read it They think it's caused by something called treponemes but not 100% sure. VERY infectious, seems like it can live in the soil for a long time but not sure how long. It can live on foot shears for a few days if you trim feet.
Scald or footrot causing wounds on the foot seems to allow it access to infect a foot, it then Spreads along the top of the hoof called corony band, which leads to the horn detaching in the end.
In laboratory tests micotil worked best at controlling it. Whole flock treatment with micotil to eradicate it doesn't work brilliantly though, about half the flocks treated got reinfected, so whole flock treatments are not recommended.
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
Why ?
Had CODD here in the spring just before I started too lamb... from memory I think I had roughly 90 ewes for down with it and cost me about £9 a head too get rid of [emoji24] took about 3weeks to rid the flock of it...
every other day I footbathed everything in formalin double strength.. .. then let them onto an open concrete yard ... walked them round.. pulled out anything lame and put them in the isolation pen that was mucked out every day... at its height I had 40 ewes in this pen.. they would be footbathed last... for the first week anything lame got alamycin LA but it didn’t touch it then I went on too zactran and anything lame was walking fine within 3 days and from looking at its foot you’d barely know had a problem, was then followed up with alamycin and released back too the main flock again generally 6 days from going into isolation touch wood my only foot issues since have been a spate of maggots in feet in the last 2 weeks
every other day I footbathed everything in formalin double strength.. .. then let them onto an open concrete yard ... walked them round.. pulled out anything lame and put them in the isolation pen that was mucked out every day... at its height I had 40 ewes in this pen.. they would be footbathed last... for the first week anything lame got alamycin LA but it didn’t touch it then I went on too zactran and anything lame was walking fine within 3 days and from looking at its foot you’d barely know had a problem, was then followed up with alamycin and released back too the main flock again generally 6 days from going into isolation touch wood my only foot issues since have been a spate of maggots in feet in the last 2 weeks
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
God so much drug use...and we are all supposed to be using less....Tylan...Pharmasian...can you get it from your vets because my buggers wont let me have it.....its works a treat in a hand held 1 litre garden sprayer with some fairy to make it stick....my vets.....well no comment and no help
If you’d seen CODD rip through your lambing shed like the plague you’d understand the drug use... I had the vets out 4 times in a week because I was panicking that sh!t was going so wrong so fast it’s heart breaking stuff every time you open the shed door there’s another 4-5 ewes walking round with a leg in the air and youv only been gone a few hours it’s unbelievable how fast it takes hold
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
Yes i totally understand that...just making a comment ..my vets wont give anything these days...put there hrly charges up to £150 now.. to compensate
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
Alamycin spray is pretty successful at treating CODD, you have to clean up and trim first though and yes I dared to say trim!
- Location
- North Antrim
Are you sure you know what codd is?
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
Oh yes I know what Codd is, it first appeared here 5 or 6 years ago!
primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
Didn't we sheep keepers once have access to a service that would make inoculations from the strain of foot harming bacterium that was affecting the flock?
Edit to add: from reading upthread, it appears CODD is caused by something other than bacteria, so is there research into phages or similar that prey on these critters?
Edit to add: from reading upthread, it appears CODD is caused by something other than bacteria, so is there research into phages or similar that prey on these critters?
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Never had CODD here until I bought it in with some store lambs the year before last
We've about 10 or 12 ewes isolated at the moment. Vet suggested Oxytet and formalin footbath - waste of time (and Oxytet).
Done 'em with Draxxin and formalin footbath twice this last week and all but 1 are sound now
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i know what you mean about trimming, the mrs went on a one day vet thingy on lameness an they were dead against foot bath and trimming!! We must have the worst strain because they’re lame before it breaks out of the coronet band, you can feel that it’s gone soft within the hoof, formalin won’t help it at that stage, jab an spray once erupted! I wish I could get mine better in three days, we’ve been dealing with it for 12 months
Part of me is glad I had it at lambing as atleast it was contained too the shed and not spread all over the farm and being passed around at uncontainable points