Author Topic: Soreness between cleats (Read 2073 times)

moprabbit · « **on:** July 27, 2017, 11:48:24 am »

One of my ewes has had some soreness between her cleats on one front foot for sometime now. I've sprayed with Alamycin on a regular basis and have foot bathed her with zinc sulphate every 3 or 4 days and still can't seem to clear it up. She's not lame. I wondered if anyone could suggest anything else I could try. Thank you.

bj_cardiff · « **Reply #1 on:** July 27, 2017, 04:20:45 pm »

Could you take a photo?

moprabbit · « **Reply #2 on:** July 27, 2017, 04:32:49 pm »

I'll try tomorrow when I've got my camera!

Marches Farmer · « **Reply #3 on:** July 27, 2017, 05:11:52 pm »

If it's redness then it may be scald. If the bottom of the clees becomes smelly and has a coating of cheesy gunk then it's turned into footrot.

twizzel · « **Reply #4 on:** July 27, 2017, 05:23:45 pm »

If it's scald a jab of oxytetracycline (alamycin) antibiotics along with blue spray will help. But normally with scald or footrot they are noticeably lame

shep53 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 27, 2017, 07:19:29 pm »

The treatment you've used would clear scald , have a look at interdigital fibroma

moprabbit · « **Reply #6 on:** July 27, 2017, 10:50:57 pm »

Thanks for the replies. I'll look that up Shep.I might try a jab of Alamycin Twizzel. I don't think there's any cheesy gunk on her sole as I've been checking her hooves regularly, but I'll check again. But she's definitely not lame. So I'll keep checking and try some of these ideas. Thank you

twizzel · « **Reply #7 on:** July 27, 2017, 11:31:50 pm »

I had a bit of scald go through some ewes I bought last summer. Ended up treating them all with alamycin and blue spray all 4 feet. Since then touch wood not had any problems :-)

moprabbit · « **Reply #8 on:** July 28, 2017, 09:03:07 am »

Twizzel, did you just give your ewes one shot of Alamycin or a course and if so how long between the jabs? Thanks.

Womble · « **Reply #9 on:** July 28, 2017, 11:18:18 am »

Whenever ours have had scald, it has always cleared up pretty quickly following either footbathing (if a few are affected), or blue 'cyclo' antibiotic spray if it's just one or two. If you try that first, you probably won't need to inject at all?

moprabbit · « **Reply #10 on:** July 29, 2017, 11:28:22 pm »

Sorry can't get any photos. I'm going to perservere with the foot bathing and Alamycin spray as there seemed to be some improvement today. Thanks to everyone who replied.