Footbath

[Scotty]

Looking to put a footbath in for beef cattle.
My thoughts are 8ft wide that I can clean with the forklift bucket concrete panels on the sides.
What length should I make it ? do I split it in two , with clean water then solution in the second?
Looking at foot bathing as a prevention rather than a treatment.
Have tried a single plastic trough in race but took far too long and needed refilled constantly.
Looking at putting the cattle back to courts/slats after handling and letting them walk through this every time but not always bathing them every time.
any one got some photos of there's?

 

[Farmer Fin]

Looking to put a footbath in for beef cattle.
My thoughts are 8ft wide that I can clean with the forklift bucket concrete panels on the sides.
What length should I make it ? do I split it in two , with clean water then solution in the second?
Looking at foot bathing as a prevention rather than a treatment.
Have tried a single plastic trough in race but took far too long and needed refilled constantly.
Looking at putting the cattle back to courts/slats after handling and letting them walk through this every time but not always bathing them every time.
any one got some photos of there's?

Mate built one out of steel. Its two wide plastic footbaths next two each other effectively on a cage that he can move around with the telehandler and fills it with an IBC. He found that a single width one was two slow for the handling and leg to injuries. Sorry I don’t have a pic. He’s happy with it.

 

[HasthorpeGrange]

The idea is the cow needs to put it’s foot in the water at least twice if not three times. If you go 8ft wide it might take too much solution to fill it to the correct concentration making it expensive and impractical. I think about 9ft long should get their feet in it three times and if you go 4in deep water to get a good covering it will cost a lot to fill at 8ft wide. That equates to just over 500 liters to fill it and when using something like copper sulphate takes 25kg to get a 5% solution costing around £55 plus water for every foot bath. That would do 500 cows though technically