Footbath Suggestions

[Beef farmer]

Same situation here I upped the rate for a week and footbathed every day certainly knocked the digi back. Back on the 3% rate but bathing every day. Going to build a longer bath this summer so more dunks per foot currently 10ft going to 15ft but keep it narrow so doesn’t cost a fortune to fill.

Worry about cost to fill, that is irrelavant when it comes to digi

 

[clem dog]

Worry about cost to fill, that is irrelavant when it comes to digi

A pound saved is as good as a pound earned.
Joking aside!
if it can be done effectively and cheaply it has to be a consideration.

 

[clem dog]

Bigger bath and use some copper

My bath is 10ft long but quite narrow so it does not hold as much water. It was made that way and worked well when we were in the parlour, maybe that's something to think about. I'd love an all singing and dancing auto foot bath but at the price it would hard to justify for my small numbers.

 

[Beef farmer]

A pound saved is as good as a pound earned.
Joking aside!
if it can be done effectively and cheaply it has to be a consideration.

Saving money when you have lame cows is easy. Cure the lame cows. Money saved. A bigger bath might do 2 milking instead of a small 1 doing 1 milking. Single cow width baths make cows sh1t as there is pressuse to move on.

 

[happycows]

@happycows had a volume washer rigged up on his robot years ago,I'd be rigging up something to spray linco on feet if really bad.

Despite all the crap saying its bad to bandage feet,I wrap with either copper or lincospectin for 48hrs,my records show they clear up fine.

Had a cow in the other day for trimming at drying off ,looked back at my notes and I'd trimmed her on thr 26th of October dermatitis on both rear,not a sign now.

I did but it used lots and lots of water. Don’t think I’d risk spraying antibiotics in robot either.

Im with you with bandage but I use intracare hoofit gel.

 

[dinderleat]

Saving money when you have lame cows is easy. Cure the lame cows. Money saved. A bigger bath might do 2 milking instead of a small 1 doing 1 milking. Single cow width baths make cows sh1t as there is pressuse to move on.

It’s more about using what you’ve got to do a better job where my foot bath is situated is only capable of being one cow width wide so making it longer seems a better idea to get more dunks. I’m not to bothered about the saving it’s just a bonus.

 

[Milkcow365]

It’s more about using what you’ve got to do a better job where my foot bath is situated is only capable of being one cow width wide so making it longer seems a better idea to get more dunks. I’m not to bothered about the saving it’s just a bonus.

What about a pre bath I like mines as it’s always filled with sh!t and the one with copper in it s clean?

 

[Headless chicken]

Controversially we stopped foot bathing this year due to construction not being completed resulting in cows having to go through more sh!t than I’d like so basically it would’ve been a total waste of time.

I’d be lieing if I said we had no DD but no where near as bad as it should have been. Making me think It either a) a fluke or b) I should spend the money I save on footbafhinf and get myself a proper crush setup that I can put cows through easily and lift more frequently

 

[Milkcow365]

Controversially we stopped foot bathing this year due to construction not being completed resulting in cows having to go through more sh!t than I’d like so basically it would’ve been a total waste of time.

I’d be lieing if I said we had no DD but no where near as bad as it should have been. Making me think It either a) a fluke or b) I should spend the money I save on footbafhinf and get myself a proper crush setup that I can put cows through easily and lift more frequently

I’d do both then you will have zero

 

[lazy farmer]

This is a very depressing thread.
There seems to be a lot of fire fighting and no prevention

 

[Beef farmer]

This is a very depressing thread.
There seems to be a lot of fire fighting and no prevention

Being a closed herd you dont have digi?

 

[pappuller]

We have had mixed results with formalin, are going to start with a copper/zinc/formalin liquid to be used through our auto footbath.

 

[Agrifool]

Anybody ever seen a foam solution for cows feet? Just wondered how it fairs out. I like the idea of the cows walking through fresh foam without dung on it. saw it on the internet a few years ago but never followed up on it at the time and now cant remember who sells the foam machine /solution.

 

[Headless chicken]

Anybody ever seen a foam solution for cows feet? Just wondered how it fairs out. I like the idea of the cows walking through fresh foam without dung on it. saw it on the internet a few years ago but never followed up on it at the time and now cant remember who sells the foam machine /solution.

I’m fairly sure it is Pruex that sells it

 

[dinderleat]

What about a pre bath I like mines as it’s always filled with sh!t and the one with copper in it s clean?

I thought there were trials done involving pre baths and it showed your better off just putting the same solution split between the baths

 

[dinderleat]

This is a very depressing thread.
There seems to be a lot of fire fighting and no prevention

Foot bathing is preventative surely used in conjunction with reduced pressure from sh!t and overall infectious material

 

[lazy farmer]

Being a closed herd you dont have digi?

Nope we have Digi it’s just we run systems that by accident( probably) and by design (maybe) means I might see 6 cases a winter.
Now I admit there are various kinds of Digi and we may have a less aggressive form of the disease but surely prevention is better than paying 1800 quid for copper sulphate

 

[Beef farmer]

Nope we have Digi it’s just we run systems that by accident( probably) and by design (maybe) means I might see 6 cases a winter.
Now I admit there are various kinds of Digi and we may have a less aggressive form of the disease but surely prevention is better than paying 1800 quid for copper sulphate

Better scraping of sh1t. What other preventative mesures?

 

[dinderleat]

Better tracks less damage to heels and more time grazing

 

[Blue.]

Nope we have Digi it’s just we run systems that by accident( probably) and by design (maybe) means I might see 6 cases a winter.
Now I admit there are various kinds of Digi and we may have a less aggressive form of the disease but surely prevention is better than paying 1800 quid for copper sulphate

If you read my post regards copper,I had bother with foul tracking down the hoof then developing into toe necrosis,nothing to do with dermi.

A ton of copper at £1800 is buttons to me.