This is Foot Rot (goat), right?

[cassie]

We used to use Coppertox. I'm not sure of the spelling, but it comes in a metal container and you just squirt some on the affected area. Most feed stores and livestock supplies carry it.

 

[ValerieS]

Thank you. I am using a coppertox on the hooves but I was wondering if I should also be detoxing the floor? The barn is always pretty clean, it's the buck corral that is at the bottom of a hill and can hold the water muck for a while. I've put in 3 cement brick pads for standing and lying and he loves them as do the does who join him for a while to keep the hooves out of the mud. A couple of does brought the foot rot down to the barn.

Valerie

 

[cassie]

Thank you. I am using a coppertox on the hooves but I was wondering if I should also be detoxing the floor? The barn is always pretty clean, it's the buck corral that is at the bottom of a hill and can hold the water muck for a while. I've put in 3 cement brick pads for standing and lying and he loves them as do the does who join him for a while to keep the hooves out of the mud. A couple of does brought the foot rot down to the barn.

Valerie

I suppose you could but we never did. We simply did what we could to keep the animals out of the mud and the loafing areas clean and dry. It probably wouldn't hurt to wash floors down with a clorox solution, but as I said, we never did and we managed to keep foot fungus under control. However, I lived in a fairly dry area of California, and that may have made a difference.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Most often when foot rot is seen it is because hooves are left untrimmed from what i have seen. Keep the hooves trimmed, use coppertox on new goats with problems. I never used antibiotics on foot rot and it always cleared up and never spread. Just my experience.