INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 2

Surgico-Therapeutic Management of Hoof Affections in Cattle

  • Author:
  • R.V. Raulkar, M.G. Thorat, S.V. Kuralkar, S.D. Chepte, M.V. Ingawale
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 475 to 479

Post Graduate Institute of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University (MAFSU), Krishi Nagar, Akola-444104 (Maharashtra)

*Corresponding author E-mail: rvraulkar@rediffmail.com

Online published on 18 April, 2018.

Abstract

Total 120 cattle with different hoof affections of sole, heel, white line, coronet, abaxial wall as well as interdigital space were surgico-therapeutically managed using foot bath, trimming, antibiotic therapy and application of hoof block. The surgicotherapeutic strategies were evaluated by measuring the lameness score recorded on 10th, 20th, 30th and 45th day after treatment.

Keywords

Foot bath, hoof affection, lameness score, toe length, trimming