I like watching the ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL movies. Much of what the veterinarians in the movies depicted about various ailments of the animals were true. However, I kept noticing that back then the farmers and the veterinarians kept having problems with the cattle and pigs in that area contracting foot and mouth disease.

In the early and right up to the mid part of the 20th century, (1900 to 1950) farmers in Europe were forever having problems with their cattle and pigs getting foot and mouth disease. If they would have fed their animals comfrey leaves before giving them their feed, this would have prevented the disease from ever starting in the first place. This horrible disease literally wiped out every farm around when one farmer had the problem. He would be quarantined and couldn't even leave his property, because this disease was spread on the farmers boots. I don't know if farmers have problems with this disease now, but if they do, they should invest in some comfrey plants. You just pull the leaves, put them in a bucket or something to carry them. Give each animal two or three of the leaves right before their feed. At first, they won't eat it, but, then they see that after they eat it, they get their feed. After a couple times, they are good about taking it. If they were my animals, I would give it to them at least every other day. Every day won't hurt.