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fifixx

  • Joined Mar 2010
  • Shillingstone, Dorset
    • Bere Marsh Farm
sore hocks
« on: December 01, 2010, 06:50:48 pm »
One of my youngsters had red, scabby bits above her hoof.  I was going to trim their feet yesterday but noticed this and gave it a good spray with iodine. they have been in the fields in the day with wet grass, so could it be foot rot - or something else?

 

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: sore hocks
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2010, 09:00:39 pm »
Is s/he limping? If it would be footrot - they would be limping, and there would be a characteristic smell (once smelt never forgotten!), but also footrot occurs in-between the toes (it starts usually as scald), and then starts to rot their sole, sometimes their heels.

If there is no limping, no visible abscess(??? spelling), I would wait a couple of days and see if anything develops, also - just on one leg or all four?


langdon

  • Joined Sep 2009
  • Pembrokeshire
  • The Happy Smallholder!
Re: sore hocks
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2010, 09:40:43 pm »
we have one nannie who is about 18 mths and she has the same thing that you have described.
the vet has tried treating for mange with antibiotics etc.
unfortunaly she is still the same, vet has given another dose again how has the iodine worked out for you?
i might try that myself.
langdon :goat:
 
Langdon ;)

fifixx

  • Joined Mar 2010
  • Shillingstone, Dorset
    • Bere Marsh Farm
Re: sore hocks
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2010, 05:54:21 pm »
All sorted by the vet - mange - yukky little mites....

We injected them today and if anyone had been passing they would have thought there was wholesale slaughter going on!!  what a raquet they made - just being caught, not even for the injection!!!

 

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