Her Hoof was NO MATCH for the ROCKS — Transcript

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1. 0:03Well, I think we've identified the
2. 0:05problem, so let's go fix it. Welcome
3. 0:08back
4. 0:09to Nate the Hoof Guy.
5. 0:21Whenever you come across these types of
6. 0:22marks in the sole of a cow's hoof,
7. 0:24you're pretty sure that it was caused by
8. 0:26rocks.
9. 0:34It didn't take long and I uncovered one
10. 0:36with my grinder.
11. 0:48While the carbides on my cutting wheel
12. 0:49are pretty tough, you still don't want
13. 0:51to hit too many rocks with them or
14. 0:53you're going to end up with dull
15. 0:54carbides.
16. 1:03A mark like that means rocks and bubbles
17. 1:06means it went all the way through.
18. 1:10Take a little bit more of this down with
19. 1:12the grinder and then we'll bring the
20. 1:13knife out and get down to it.
21. 1:30With the amount of bubbles that came out
22. 1:31of there, that's telling me that there
23. 1:33is quite the pocket up underneath this
24. 1:35sole.
25. 1:56Well, now we can see where all that
26. 1:58fluid and all those bubbles came from.
27. 2:11Well, this is quite a bit of sole that I
28. 2:13had to take away so far. There's still
29. 2:15quite a bit more to go yet.
30. 2:17If you've ever wondered how long it
31. 2:19takes for a sole like this to regrow,
32. 2:21well, you're going to get to see in this
33. 2:23video. We've got the follow-up included.
34. 2:32So, now, even though I've mentioned it
35. 2:34many times, it bears repeating. Trimming
36. 2:36this hard outer layer of hoof horn
37. 2:38doesn't hurt. It's just like trimming
38. 2:40our fingernails. It's made out of the
39. 2:42same material. There's no nerve endings,
40. 2:44there's no sensitiv- sensitivity to
41. 2:46that. When you get up below that, where
42. 2:48that corium layer is, where the lesion
43. 2:50itself is, that is painful, but I'm
44. 2:52avoiding that area. I'm not touching it
45. 2:55at all. So, I'm not going to trim any of
46. 2:57that area out. I'm going to be very
47. 2:58careful when I work around that. All I'm
48. 3:00doing here is just trimming away this
49. 3:02hard outer layer so I can get down to
50. 3:04that and get that area cleaned out. It's
51. 3:06that sensitive tissue up underneath
52. 3:08there that needs to be clean and get get
53. 3:11the bacteria taken care of so that it
54. 3:13can start to produce new hoof horn
55. 3:14again, which will completely replace the
56. 3:17sole, which you're going to see in that
57. 3:20follow-up.
58. 3:22These little folds of hoof horn here,
59. 3:25they're really soft. I'm going to take
60. 3:27away some of these that are a little bit
61. 3:28more that are a little bit loose, that
62. 3:30are a little more thin. I'm going to
63. 3:32trim those away, but I don't have to
64. 3:34worry too much about them because only
65. 3:36the hard hoof horn is what could impede
66. 3:38the healing process if it were to affect
67. 3:40that lesion. But, in this case, these
68. 3:42are pretty soft, so I'm just going to,
69. 3:44like I said, just trim away some of
70. 3:45these loose ones that are really
71. 3:46obvious. The rest I'm going to leave in
72. 3:48place because I don't want to aggravate
73. 3:50this anymore. I wanted to just trim away
74. 3:53any of this hard horn and then get it
75. 3:55nice and flushed out, treated with our
76. 3:57salicylic acid, and get a block on that
77. 3:59other claw. Then we're going to come
78. 4:01back in a couple of weeks and show you
79. 4:03exactly what happened after our
80. 4:05treatment.
81. 4:08We'll give this side a good spray down
82. 4:10and we'll get that other claw prepped
83. 4:12and ready for a block.
84. 4:20I add a little bit of glue to the side
85. 4:22of that claw just to give some more
86. 4:23surface area for that glue to hold on
87. 4:25to.
88. 4:27Right in here, that's where that rock
89. 4:28went through. That's the area I try to
90. 4:30avoid when I'm working. I'm just going
91. 4:31to take away any more of these little
92. 4:33loose bits here and then we're going to
93. 4:35get this sprayed down one more time, get
94. 4:37that salicylic acid wrap in place.
95. 4:52We're going to get this wrap in place
96. 4:53and then we're going to fast forward
97. 4:54just a couple of short weeks and see
98. 4:56what it looks like then.
99. 5:00All right, so here we are. Right in
100. 5:02here, that's where those rocks went
101. 5:03through. You can see there's a new layer
102. 5:05of hoof horn pretty much all the way
103. 5:07across this entire sole right now.
104. 5:09You'll notice it's very dark in color.
105. 5:11That's just staining. You'll notice as I
106. 5:13trim that down, it's nice and white
107. 5:15underneath, which is exactly what we
108. 5:17want to see. Just going to work this
109. 5:18down, get this all cleaned up and we'll
110. 5:20take a good look at it.
111. 5:26So whenever I do a recheck, what I'm
112. 5:28looking to do is just make sure that
113. 5:29everything is progressing as it should.
114. 5:32I'm going to remove any loose hoof horn
115. 5:33that I see
116. 5:34uh at this next trim. What can happen is
117. 5:38as this hoof horn starts to grow back,
118. 5:40you can still get some more separation.
119. 5:42You're never going to always get it all
120. 5:45on that first try. Some more is going to
121. 5:47separate just from the natural healing
122. 5:49process. So, I just want to remove any
123. 5:51of the loose bits around that. You can
124. 5:53see there's a pretty good uh sole that's
125. 5:56formed here in just a couple of short
126. 5:58weeks. It's not terribly thick. I don't
127. 6:00want to do too much work here because
128. 6:02the goal is eventually to get that sole
129. 6:04thick enough for her to walk on, right?
130. 6:06So, I don't want to remove too much of
131. 6:08this. I just want to clean up around the
132. 6:10edges, make sure that everything is
133. 6:11progressing just how I want it to.
134. 6:25If you look at the very tip of this toe,
135. 6:26you'll notice that it's lighter in color
136. 6:29than the rest of that sole was before I
137. 6:30started working on it. Why is that?
138. 6:33Well, because that toe area, each time
139. 6:35this she takes a step, that toe touches
140. 6:37a little bit. So, it's going to wear
141. 6:39down a little bit. The intensity of that
142. 6:42staining is going to be much less
143. 6:44because she's wearing a very thin amount
144. 6:46of that off each time she takes a step.
145. 6:49Now, in that heel area, where that the
146. 6:51block was keeping that completely off
147. 6:53the ground, that was able to get that
148. 6:55really dark, intense staining because
149. 6:58there was no wearing whatsoever.
150. 7:00So, I'm doing here just cleaning up any
151. 7:02of these edges. There's not a lot to
152. 7:04take away now. It's pretty well cleaned
153. 7:06up. We're going to get this treated one
154. 7:08more time though, and then we're going
155. 7:10to give her a little test drive, right?
156. 7:12We're going to let her out. We're going
157. 7:13to show you how uh she was walking after
158. 7:14that first trim, and how she's walking
159. 7:16now, and I think we can agree she's
160. 7:18doing much better.
161. 7:25Now, as far as the block goes, it's
162. 7:27maintained its shape quite well. I don't
163. 7:29need to replace that. It's doing its
164. 7:31job. We're going to leave it on for a
165. 7:32couple more weeks. Once again, we need
166. 7:34this sole to get a little bit thicker
167. 7:36before she can walk on it, right? It's
168. 7:38healed in quite nicely, but we need that
169. 7:40thicker to bear weight. Needs to be at
170. 7:42least a quarter of an inch deep.
171. 7:44So, we'll get this wrap on. We're going
172. 7:46to let her go. Now, this is how she was
173. 7:49a couple weeks ago. You can see
174. 7:51still favoring it, but here now
175. 7:54looking much better.