“Foot rot can lead to cattle lameness, resulting in lost performance and profitability for your cattle operation,” says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri Extension livestock field specialist.
Foot rot is a costly frustrating condition, which results in extra labor and expense on your operation. Keep in mind that it is necessary to have a break in skin integrity for foot rot to occur, and ...
Foot rot is an infection that causes swelling, heat, and inflammation in the foot, resulting in severe lameness that occurs suddenly. Dr. Randall Raymond, Director of Research and Veterinary Services ...
“Foot rot can lead to cattle lameness resulting in lost performance and profitability to your cattle operation,” says Patrick Davis, Regional University of Missouri Extension livestock field ...
Cattle grazing in flooded or muddy fields have a higher risk of contracting the bacterial infections foot rot and pinkeye, Purdue Extension veterinary specialist W. Mark Hilton says. (Purdue ...
Mary Irungu, a livestock farmer from Kiharu, Murang’a County recently noticed that three of her high producing animals had developed a ‘limping problem’. Ms Irungu who has kept cattle for years, was ...
I am a regular reader of your weekly columns in the Smart Harvest magazine. I am a dairy farmer in Turbo which is near Eldoret town. This year we had above-average rains and that came with a disease I ...
Mud or a wet weather that leaves pastures and pens wet and boggy can present challenges for hoof health in cattle. If feet are continually wet the hoof horn and skin of the feet become softer and more ...