There you go,never believe what a vet tells you,can’t get lincospectin from my vet!
Just looked lincospectin up,all it says is not approved for cattle footbath.
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Just looked lincospectin up,all it says is not approved for cattle footbath.
lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
To cure chronic dermi you need to look at the wider picture,slurry pooling,regular footbathing etc.. I have cured cows successfully by wrapping with copper for 48 hrs.
Linco has never been licensed for footbathing.
Happy hillbily
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- Uwchaled, North Wales
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- M6 Hard shoulder
Never was but when first used in the early 00s it was a revelation through the footbath, our hoofie wrapswith a 50/50 copper sulphate/ cylicitic acid which seems to do the job, personally terramycin spray for 3 days is my preference. But as said environmental conditions are the big driver to control
dinderleat
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- Location
- Wells
It’s all about breaking the cycle of dermi the reinfection is the problem point.
True,my success isn't just wrapping its the whole approach.
I keep records of every cow I trim so when they come back in the crush I know what's worked and what hasn't.
Scholsey
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- Herefordshire
Those two words are the cattle farmer equivalent of spinage to Popeye, makes you super alert, stamina of a marathon runner, speed of a sprinter and the quad/truck rallying ability of Colin McCrae!
Princess Pooper
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- Location
- East Mids
Ours are making us very nervous at present as they are clearly not happy with rain-drenched grass and mud. Very vocal and unsettled. Their grazing field, split into paddocks, has road on 3 sides, and only barb inside the hedge not leccy. /One of the roads is busy and fast 
Spudley
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- Pembrokeshire
I hope you got your cows back safe!
Woken at 5 by an ex dairy farmer neighbour beeping his car horn on the yard,instantly realised what had probably happened,down to field on the quad,some cows wandering in but could see plenty on the road having amazingly opened a new gate
,pushed out,so if we’d left it open it would have been pushed round the other way and catches on the field. Anyway high speed quad bike retrieval of the cows was successfully achieved from one of my relief milker’s fields which he has been clearing with a digger,cows love freshly dug soil!
Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
Grazing the long acre ?
So glad i farm on a quiet back road.
A mate a couple of weeks back had a freshly calved heifer escape on to the A5 as i was passing, luckily traffic was quiet, i phoned him and his son came down the fields on the quad, opened the gate and we got her back in the field without much drama. Wouklnt like to think what would have happened if she got out at night
Spudley
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Ours got out a month ago, I was home alone with the kids, neighbor blasted into the yard, our cows had escaped into his farm. 30 cows had pushed over a fence and walked up a trench, across a field, turned onto his lane, passed an open gate into a freshly mown silage field and into his yard where two promptly fell into his slurry pit. Luckily we got them out before they drowned and they were safely returned home. The other 120 cows didn't reven notice they'd gone!
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Ours are making us very nervous at present as they are clearly not happy with rain-drenched grass and mud. Very vocal and unsettled. Their grazing field, split into paddocks, has road on 3 sides, and only barb inside the hedge not leccy. /One of the roads is busy and fast
That is fairly typical for us. I see photos of how tight the boys in the SW can get away with grazing. If we did it here there'd be break outs galore. Especially with heifer that spend a week at a time in a field. The last couple of days can be very dodgy as they start reaching over the fences for fresh grass. This weakens the fences obviously. The skill is in when to move them on before they break out, even if it's not very cleanly grazed. It's also why grazing standing hay with dry cows doesn't work here. Last summer was awesome. Despite the lack of grass cattle were so content, they gave no trouble.
Tucking into standing hay. Chilled 7 weeks ahead
