Cow has a DEEP CHASM in her HOOF — Transcript

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1. 0:00all right guys on today's video we are
2. 0:02bringing you two different trims both
3. 0:04are on front feet from one of my pasture
4. 0:07herds welcome back to neat the hoof
5. 0:12guy first in the shoot is this girl
6. 0:15favoring her left front foot and I think
7. 0:17it's pretty obvious which claw this is
8. 0:19on it's be on the medial claw you can
9. 0:21see we've got some cracking here got
10. 0:23some loose horn here that's all going to
11. 0:26be connected so let's get started
12. 0:34so where do you start when trimming a
13. 0:36claw like this what I like to do is
14. 0:38start to remove some of the debris start
15. 0:40taking some of these layers down so I
16. 0:41can get an idea of what it looks like
17. 0:43underneath a lot of times there's going
18. 0:45to be loose horn there's going to be
19. 0:47debris on pasture cows you could find
20. 0:49rocks in there so I like to get a good
21. 0:51assessment of that before I just start
22. 0:53grinding on it with my grinder you're
23. 0:54going end up if there is a rock in there
24. 0:57wrecking those carbides so what I like
25. 0:59to do is just get a general assessment
26. 1:01kind of clean this claw up a little bit
27. 1:02before I get started with the actual
28. 1:15trimming you hear that cow grumbling in
29. 1:17the background it's not actually a cow
30. 1:20that's a bull we've got him separated
31. 1:22he's in a different pen because well I
32. 1:24just don't want to have to mess with
33. 1:25them when I'm trying to trim these cows
34. 1:27but he's not too happy about that
35. 1:48once I've got that General assessment
36. 1:49done I can go and start trimming this
37. 1:51foot what I'm going to do here is just
38. 1:53try to get this cow back to where normal
39. 1:55hoof angles and normal sole thicknesses
40. 1:58not going to take too much off of that
41. 1:59other claw because I'm going to put a
42. 2:01block on that I want that claw a little
43. 2:03bit deeper to take the weight off this
44. 2:05medial claw so we're going to get it all
45. 2:07trimmed up and then we'll go to work on
46. 2:09the problem itself
47. 2:43now with this one there's nothing too
48. 2:44tricky here when it comes to locating
49. 2:46the problem it's going to be under there
50. 2:48that separation up above is going to
51. 2:50connect to that so that's the next step
52. 2:52we're going to tackle that remove all of
53. 2:54the separated hoof horn and see what we
54. 2:56got underneath that
55. 3:10now the good part about separating that
56. 3:11bull is I don't have to worry about him
57. 3:13sneaking up on me when I'm trimming the
58. 3:15bad part is I have to listen to him the
59. 3:17rest of the day as he
60. 3:19protests that other noise that's a cow
61. 3:22with a cowbell on her collar the
62. 3:24cowbells used for when they're grazing
63. 3:25they're easier to locate out in the
64. 3:27Hills when they're grazing you can't see
65. 3:29them all the time
66. 3:30that cowbell gives that
67. 3:50away so what are we dealing with here
68. 3:53well it could be a white line issue but
69. 3:55what I think happened is she had a rock
70. 3:57caught in there at one point because
71. 3:59that ho was pretty big that's not
72. 4:01something that normally is there just
73. 4:03from a white line issue occasionally you
74. 4:05can but typically there's something must
75. 4:07have been up in there kind of eroded
76. 4:09that area down as it went either way
77. 4:13we've got a little bit of a lesion under
78. 4:14there now so we got to get this area
79. 4:16completely cleaned out get it trimmed
80. 4:18down get all the loose horn removed from
81. 4:20that and then we shouldn't have any more
82. 4:28problems so how common are foot problems
83. 4:31in pasture cows well you've heard me
84. 4:33talk a lot about how a lot of these hoof
85. 4:35problems are caused by pressure from
86. 4:37cows standing on concrete walking on
87. 4:39concrete and things like that and yet
88. 4:42some pasture cows still have problems
89. 4:44too so why is that well for pasture cows
90. 4:48those problems are a a lot of the times
91. 4:50a result of changes in feed when it
92. 4:53comes to cows in confinement or cows
93. 4:55that are in Barns all the time a lot of
94. 4:57their feed stays pretty consistent
95. 4:59they're fed a total mixed ration they um
96. 5:04all the nutrients and things that they
97. 5:05need stay at about the same levels all
98. 5:08year long their feed doesn't change when
99. 5:11it comes to pasture cows it changes
100. 5:13quite a bit from just from the seasons
101. 5:15in the pastures from the cows in the
102. 5:18wintertime being fed a lot of hay and
103. 5:21preserved feeds and then going out onto
104. 5:23fresh grass those changes end up
105. 5:26translating into problems in their feet
106. 5:28they're just not good at being able to
107. 5:31handle those things all the time here
108. 5:33you can see what we've got going here
109. 5:35there's a little bit of Aion under there
110. 5:36yet so we're going to get that cleaned
111. 5:38up we're going to get it wrapped and
112. 5:39we're going to get Block on that other
113. 5:40claw but going back to what we're
114. 5:42talking about the changes in the feed
115. 5:45while we don't see that a lot anymore
116. 5:47with um conventional farming or cows in
117. 5:51confinement it's just because of that
118. 5:54consistency pasture cows go through a
119. 5:56lot of different changes when they're
120. 5:58out on pasture so that can translate
121. 6:00into laminitis and other other problems
122. 6:02in the feet that allow that that petal
123. 6:05bone to move a little bit more than they
124. 6:07would normally that is why we have the
125. 6:10problem we're going to get this foot
126. 6:11wrapped up then we're going to move on
127. 6:13to cow number
128. 6:26two no I did not forget the Block it's
129. 6:29going on here in a
130. 6:38second you thought that bull was loud
131. 6:41before wait till I let this cow go and
132. 6:43he can't get to her
133. 6:50mhm now on to cow number two a little
134. 6:53while back I did a video about how I
135. 6:55became a hoof trimmer and how much hoof
136. 6:57trimmers make and in that video we
137. 6:59featured this hoof but I got a ton of
138. 7:02comments about hey you got to talk us
139. 7:04through this we want to know what
140. 7:05happened with that foot so here we go
141. 7:09what she had was a white line defect you
142. 7:11can see where that original Mark was
143. 7:13down below and up above we now have
144. 7:17digital dermatitis in there that's why
145. 7:20you see me wrap almost all of the white
146. 7:22line issues that I work on with
147. 7:24salicylic acid is exactly for this
148. 7:27reason while there may not not be or I
149. 7:30may not be able to see dermatitis on it
150. 7:32at the time A lot of times that bacteria
151. 7:35is there and that can keep this problem
152. 7:37open for an extended period of time
153. 7:40that's exactly what's happened here this
154. 7:42originally was a white line issue that
155. 7:44white line issue has healed but now we
156. 7:46have digital dermatitis to deal with so
157. 7:48now we still have to put a block and a
158. 7:51wrap on this cow to take care of that
159. 7:53now if you missed that first video or
160. 7:55you want to watch this Trim in its
161. 7:56entirety I will put a link down below
162. 7:59that's going to do it for today guys
163. 8:01thanks for watching