Scald in lambs

[Sir loin]

Anyone use Iodine to treat scald instead of terramycin blue spray. Was thinking of trying it any reason why not and why it wouldn't work, what do you use?

 

[Al R]

Footbath, formalin.

 

[Rob Garrett]

Anyone use Iodine to treat scald instead of terramycin blue spray. Was thinking of trying it any reason why not and why it wouldn't work, what do you use?

Only difference is you get brown fingers instead of blue!

Used it for a while, even added half teaspoon of......... can't remember the name of that powder, supposed to be for chickens, vets don't like selling it much now??????

Anyway with the powder it was getting near the price of the large cans of Cyclo blue spray, so just us that now. Alway keep a few old can nozzles in case one your using blocks.

 

[Gedd]

Only difference is you get brown fingers instead of blue!

Used it for a while, even added half teaspoon of......... can't remember the name of that powder, supposed to be for chickens, vets don't like selling it much now??????

Anyway with the powder it was getting near the price of the large cans of Cyclo blue spray, so just us that now. Alway keep a few old can nozzles in case one your using blocks.

Lyncospectin??

 

[neilo]

Lyncospectin??

i would assume so, from the description. Incredibly bad practice for just a bit of scald, and why the vets ‘don’t like selling it much now’.

 

[Rob Garrett]

Lyncospectin??

That's the one, thank you.

Lyncosin was another, bit cheaper, but without the Spectin didn't have enough teddy.

 

[lou]

Lime around water troughs, works well here.

 

[sheepdogtrail]

Iodine works very well if you clean the muck out first. Just a splash should do it.

Downside is cost.

 

[beardface]

I use hoofsure and footbath. Find it a much nicer product to use than formalin, just need to be careful mixing it as its natural acids. Works aswell as formalin though, and at low temps too. In a low scald year I tend to just cyclo spray the bad ones when there in. It tends to start around first wormer/shearing time so can usually catch it early. Have a zero tolerance to foot issues in ewes too, which has massively reduced foot issues.

Also find if sheep get moved to a fresh paddock after treatment for a week or so it helps break the cycle.

 

[Woolless]

As above, provita Hoofsure endurance is good in a footbath if a lot have it. Normally don't have much bother but two or three years ago everything had it and a good soak in that made a big difference. Blue cyclo spray for sporadic cases.

 

[jack6480]

Why has no one said ‘golden hoof’?

 

[gatepost]

Golden Hoof, there now that's got that out of the way.

 

[Northern territory]

Always used formalin but as said not very nice stuff.

 

[neilo]

I had a cold call from a salesman a couple of weeks ago, offering me the deal of the century on a foot bathing product called Green Guardian. Apparently it sticks to the hoof and carries on working for a fortnight.
I didn’t bite and he was going to email me the details, but they still haven’t arrived.

He claimed that 4000 farmers were using it already, so there must be a few on here. Anyone heard of it, or is it oil extracted from a slippery reptile as I suspect?

 

[Agrivator]

Always used formalin but as said not very nice stuff.

A very weak solution might be ok, but if it's too strong, it can just cause more irritation. And if the footbath is indoors, evaporation tends to make it stronger, and if you top up with the normal proportions of water:formalin, it becomes even stronger, and even more of a cancer risk to the shepherd.

But it is certainly useful to preserve a dogfish which you can haul out each Friday afternoon to continue to dissect its cranial nerves.

 

[Northern territory]

A very weak solution might be ok, but if it's too strong, it can just cause more irritation. And if the footbath is indoors, evaporation tends to make it stronger, and if you top up with the normal proportions of water:formalin, it becomes even stronger, and even more of a cancer risk to the shepherd.

But it is certainly useful to preserve a dogfish which you can haul out each Friday afternoon to continue to dissect its cranial nerves.

It works you can’t deny that. Scald anyway, maybe not for footrot, CODD etc. I think most foot sprays are a waste of time. Tend to jab nowadays for severe cases.

 

[Al R]

It works you can’t deny that. Scald anyway, maybe not for footrot, CODD etc. I think most foot sprays are a waste of time. Tend to jab nowadays for severe cases.

Formalin works for everything including codd, eradicated it here by running ewes through 4 days in a row at double concentrate (like it says) and then stop for 2 days then another 4 days footbathing, stopped it dead after 20 odd days here.

Sporadic cases I’ll use nettex Septiclense violet for scald or if anything does actually need trimming...

Don’t you have to stand them in golden hoof for 20 minutes?
With the Provita Hoofsure endurance can you run through or do they have to walk or even worse stand in it?

 

[Northern territory]

Formalin works for everything including codd, eradicated it here by running ewes through 4 days in a row at double concentrate (like it says) and then stop for 2 days then another 4 days footbathing, stopped it dead after 20 odd days here.

Sporadic cases I’ll use nettex Septiclense violet for scald or if anything does actually need trimming...

Don’t you have to stand them in golden hoof for 20 minutes?
With the Provita Hoofsure endurance can you run through or do they have to walk or even worse stand in it?

Yes it’s a slow job standing sheep in footbaths.

 

[Woolless]

Formalin works for everything including codd, eradicated it here by running ewes through 4 days in a row at double concentrate (like it says) and then stop for 2 days then another 4 days footbathing, stopped it dead after 20 odd days here.

Sporadic cases I’ll use nettex Septiclense violet for scald or if anything does actually need trimming...

Don’t you have to stand them in golden hoof for 20 minutes?
With the Provita Hoofsure endurance can you run through or do they have to walk or even worse stand in it?

At least one minute contact for provita IIRC. I stood mine in it for two. Not a quick job certainly but it worked and without the drawbacks of formalin.

 

[Man_in_black]

Only difference is you get brown fingers instead of blue!

I just tried it on housed ewes....