Foot bathing.

[lazy farmer]

Quick question. Has anybody heard of or is Adding fairy liquid to their foot bath to help the solution stick to the cows feet?
If yes does it work and how much?

 

[deleted user 436632456]

Quick question. Has anybody heard of or is Adding fairy liquid to their foot bath to help the solution stick to the cows feet?
If yes does it work and how much?

Anna Truesdale on youtube has a video up about it, if thats any help to you.

 

[surprisefarmer]

I have been doing it now for 3-4 weeks. I could not swear that it is working, but I have been having minimal foot problems.

 

[dinderleat]

What are trying todo? What product are you using

 

[Davy]

I put a generous squirt in with copper sulphate. Meant to help it stick so I was told

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

Quick question. Has anybody heard of or is Adding fairy liquid to their foot bath to help the solution stick to the cows feet?
If yes does it work and how much?

Discussed this with our vet a few weeks ago, according to her you alternate the bath, foot bath solution for a few days then fairy liquid for a few days, according to her it does nothing towards treating lameness, but simply washes their feet inbetween footbath solutions, there by helping prevent new infections and lowering the cost of footbathing overall.

 

[surprisefarmer]

I do a week on Copper sulphate then a week on formaldehyde, cleaning the footbath out twice a day and refilling. I put the fairy liquid in with every new bath. I think it keeps the feet cleaner. Who knows.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Also heard of folk running cows through foot baths of hypo to clean feet, never tried it myself though

 

[Ducati899]

Has anyone ever thought of just trying a week or longer on Just fairy liquid if it keeps the feet cleaner and see what happens rather than continually using formalin? We only footbath once every 10-14 days in housed months using formalin and don’t do anything when out grazing,I just put it down to auto scrapers keeping feet clean during winter months

 

[dairyrow]

did read on twitter once liquid soap and bleach.

 

[TheRanger]

I think it was at one of the AHDB Rosy Lane talks that they said they footbathed in Hypo