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