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Micotil can clear up foot rot, but it is lethal to humans.

I was listening to a man talk about a former student that died from a dose of Micotil. Scary stuff. Anyone use it?

Had an area that stayed wet one year really bad.

I'd rope the calves that had foot rot, throw them, and rope burn the infected area between the hooves so that it bled well. Then they would get a spray that was for wounds, and a shot of Combiotic.

The vet lobby took away Combiotic though. It was costing them too much business by curing too many animals.

rockinbar, Combiotic was just procaine penicillin, and strepomycin in combination.
The feds outlawed all combination drugs year ago.

Life was simpler back when, a quarters worth of the drug would whip pasteurella pneumonia if you caught it soon enough.

Do you use any Draxin, $480 per 100 ml, better than dead calves!

Not tried that.

Yeah, combination drugs took a hit. Had a vet tell me that was due to their effectiveness, and nothing else.

I used a lot of TYLAN for foot rot. That and dexamethasone for the swelling if she wasn't pregnant.
A copper sulfide footbath kept it in check quite well.

We had a bunch of yearlings get it a couple years ago.

Spring time, soggy feedlot before they went out to pasture.


LA 200.


Iodized salt/mineral seems to help prevent it.

Haven't had any experience with foot rot here. It's so dry here we don't even go on daylight savings time. Another hour of daylight would burn up whatever is left.

I use LA 200. It has worked well on the type of foot rot that shows up around here.

For years we had it in our cattle, until a neighbor told me what caused it.

Low iodine is the cause... so I started buying extra iodine and putting it in the feed in the winter time and in the salt during the summer. There is not enough iodine in the mineral salt blocks. Solved the problem = no more foot rot.

We treated the cattle by moving them to a dry lot, catching them every day and pouring coal oil in the foot. 4-5 days of this and the foot was ok. Might be old fashioned, but it worked.

Used to be a similar problem where they went to fescue pastures, called fescue foot. No one around here ever had fescue pastures and that was mostly a NW Arkansas thing that I read about. I am right on the edge of cattle raising country and most to the East and South of me is the Grand Prairie with rice, Corn and soybeans raised. miles

Isn't it more of a sustained wet terrain thing?

Can't say but the fescue foot and foot rot are similar, but fescue foot was a problem in the mountainous region of Arkansas, where there was good drainage. It was linked to fescue pastures but do not know the details. miles

Here is a link about it. miles

fescue foot

Thanks!

Interesting article. I never stop learning...

New one for me, too.

Had problems with foot rot my families farm this winter and my nephew tells me that he used Oxytetracycline, but he said another option was nuflor, what ever that is.

No foot rot problems but shipping fever was an annual issue with incoming 5 weights in the fall. We used Micotil, Draxxin, and Nuflor. They all worked well although I think the Nuflor required 2 doses, 2 days apart IIRC.

You had to be careful with the Micotil, I used to use my left hand to 'tent' the neck skin for a sub Q shot, the vet said not to do that, keep my left hand away so as to decrease the risk of injecting myself. Also said never to use it in an auto injector. But it worked pretty well. Like a lot of other things on the farm, it'll kill you if you ain't careful.

Dale