Foot Rot

[mamahen]

Never, ever, ever had this in all my years of goats (over 18 years!).

Yesterday had one goat favoring his leg. Smelled that smell. So bought Dr. Naylors Hoof & Heel. Also copper bolused everyone!

He is doing better today.....but 2 more are limping!

It's soooo wet & soggy, but their pen is dry. They can come & go, but stay in the barn.

What can I do to stop the spread to the cows & mule? They are in seperate parts of the barn, but the stalls they are in are soaked. Now they are usually they are dry, but it's been raining non stop for 2 days, and before that it rained & snowed & rained somemore. Now we are getting 8 inches tomorrow.

[Alice In TX/MO]

It's in the soil, all the time, everywhere. One year, we had a HORRIBLE outbreak in the cattle. Never have had a case since.

Just treat and keep going!

You could go ahead and treat the cows and mules with Koppertox.

[Backfourty,MI.]

Can you also put pallets or something down to keep the goats off the barn floor? Just trying to think of ideas to keep their feet dry. The dryer the better.
I'd also do like Alice suggested & treat the cows & mule too just to be safe.

Been really wet, rain, snow, etc. here too. Sure will be glad for some warm dry weather!

[steff bugielski]

It does not live in the soil every where always. You can have it die off if you remove the host, your animals, for 3 weeks.
You must put all animals in separate pens in which no animals have been for at least three weeks. Put infected ones in one pen and clean animals in another.
I did this by sectioning off the barn itself with cattle panels and made some small pens with them outside. They don't have to be big just big enough for them to go out.
Leave the infected barn and pasture completely empty for three weeks not even you can walk in it. You can transmit on your shoes.
Change all bedding daily and treat infected animals daily. If you go into the infected pen wash off your shoes real good before going into the uninfected pen.
After three weeks the clean animals, provided they are still clean, can go back into the now clean pasture and barn.
As the infected get better and by that I mean going weeks without any symptoms, move them to the pen you had the clean animals in. Keep them there to be sure they do not reinfect. for a few weeks.
It is a real hassle but it can be done. I dealt with hoof rot for years. It came here on a rescue sheep. I treated with hoof and heel forever but until I bit the bullet and separated them in this fashion it did not go away.

[mamahen]

The goat stall is completely dry. But the cow & mule stalls, I can't keep the water out of. We have dirt floors in the barn, and with this extreme rain/snow fall - there is water seeping out of places that were never wet before.

Unfortunately, we only have the one barn, with 3 seperate areas for the critters: cows, mule stall & goat stall. No way I can move them to a new area right now. We do have a chicken coop about 100 feet away, but no fence or electric there (and these buggers need electric!)

I guess I will keep treating everyone & keep everyone as dry as I can. 2 cows are being shipped withing the month. That frees up some space.

My little goat "herd" is so bonded, that when one is pulled or seperated for some reason, the other ones go crazy! Throwing themselves against the stall doors, trying to jump partitions, screaming & crying! Such drama queens!

Thanks for the help!