Dealing with Foot Rot with Dr. Chris Clark

The Beef Cattle Health and Nutrition Podcast

Dr. Chris Clark joins the podcast to discuss foot rot and sole abscesses. Dr. Clark is a faculty member and large animal medicine clinician at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine. He has a special interest in lameness and discusses two of the common causes of lameness in cattle: foot rot and sole abscesses. We'll discuss the differences in how they develop and how they have to be treated in a very different fashion.

00:00 – 02:45 Introduction

02:46– 05:20 Costs and productivity losses associated with lameness

05:21 – 07:12 Importance of lameness in cow-calf industry

07:13– 09:33 General lameness categories

09:34– 11:02 The 90:90:90 rule

11:03 – 14:32 How foot rot cases develop

17:18 – 18:55 How to identify a case of foot rot

18:56 – 20:46 How to identify a sole abscess

20:47 – 29:30 Treatment differences between these conditions

29:30 – 31:09 Concluding thoughts

31:10 – 31:58 Closing comments