Half a cows foot amputated

[Farmer Fin]

I’m a retired vet and have done countless over the years. Knocking out is not necessary and can easily be done in a half decent crush especially back feet. As for dressings, change 2 or 3 times and can normally be done by the farmer after first vet change if competent. Some vets appear to like then fully granulated before stopping the dressing but in my experience it makes no difference.

 

[Optimus]

Has anyone had this done? A rear foot in this case and outside half.
Vet says they do about 4 per yea
she will need knocking out every 3 days to change the dressing for over a month. The bill will be exciting
Favorite old cow so we wouldn’t be doing it otherwise... current calf 9 months old and not in calf.
Just as well this is t a business

Brother does some for the vet every now an then.they use his roll over crate.don't hear any issue's after they've done it.

 

[bobk]

If she can walk in to a trailer it's au revoir I'm afraid .

 

[Netherfield]

I've seen one done on the TV, near certain it was Peter Wright on the Yorkshire Vet.

 

[shearerlad]

Brother does some for the vet every now an then.they use his roll over crate.don't hear any issue's after they've done it.

He did one for me last year. Turned her from a shot on farm casualty case to being worth £650. Put her out to a clean grass field and fed her for 6 weeks.
Certainly worth doing in her case

 

[neilo]

She’ll be grand. Obviously the other clay has more weight & pressure on it, so will be more prone to ulcers and other problems. If you then get a problem in that clay then you’ve run out of options of course.

Amputating the infected clay has put years on many cows over the years, and certainly better than shooting an otherwise healthy animal.

 

[czechmate]

She’ll be grand. Obviously the other clay has more weight & pressure on it, so will be more prone to ulcers and other problems. If you then get a problem in that clay then you’ve run out of options of course.

Amputating the infected clay has put years on many cows over the years, and certainly better than shooting an otherwise healthy animal.

I was/am wondering if she can support a bull with the one (inner) clay, to get in calf?

 

[czechmate]

If she can walk in to a trailer it's au revoir I'm afraid .

Plenty of differences between us

 

[bobk]

Plenty of differences between us

It'll be August before she's owt like , if everything goes to plan , as for bulling her ....

 

[Muddyroads]

Had a store bullock done the same here a couple of years ago. Local anaesthetic and cheese wire at the time and a couple of changed dressings that I did. Obviously lighter weight than your cow but showed no ill effects. Sold as a strong store through the market and nobody noticed.
I called him 6 inch, because he only had half a foot!

 

[TheRanger]

Done 2 here in recent times (Dairy cows). £250 total cost including meds. Takes under an hour. Vet popped back out to check and change bandages 1st time, we changed thereafter.

Both cows done another 1-2 years in the herd then we put them away.

Done one years ago that was sold as a cull through the ring a few years after the operation, neighbour bought it, calved it again and kept it for another 8 years.

 

[czechmate]

Your lucky to have them out still, we are swimming over here now.

certainly gone wet now

 

[Matthew Britton]

certainly gone wet now

It has rained solidly since I wrote that. Génisse are still out but they are going to need armbands if it doesn’t leave off for a while!

 

[czechmate]

It has rained solidly since I wrote that. Génisse are still out but they are going to need armbands if it doesn’t leave off for a while!

it’s all gone a bit Pete Tong

 

[czechmate]

Well, someone said she won’t be out untill august, she’s been out two weeks now and just while I was looking at them this evening I remembered this thread.
Walking next to the bull, she was “with him” a few days back
seems a distant memory now and it was my wife’s project, but I think she was knocked out 6 to 8 times.
She’s making moving the herd around easier already as she was always the leader

 

[MRT]

Done a few. Some walked off happier with no claw than with the rancid thing they had.

 

[neilo]

She’ll be fine on one claw….. until that one gets infected (or bruised from the extra pressure on it), then it’s a bullet job.

 

[czechmate]

Calved today