HOOF ABSCESS BURSTS during trimming! — Transcript

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1. 0:00So, I didn't see this cow walking into
2. 0:02the crush, but her foot tells me that
3. 0:05she must have been incredibly lame. This
4. 0:07is the hoofgp and a proper release of
5. 0:11pressure.
6. 0:11[Music]
7. 0:20[Applause]
8. 0:24[Music]
9. 0:34So, we just picked up this foot. I'm not
10. 0:36sure No, I was going to say I'm not sure
11. 0:37if you'll be able to see it, but look.
12. 0:39Now I've Now I've picked the pad up, you
13. 0:41can see it clear as day.
14. 0:42[Music]
15. 0:47That's not supposed to be there,
16. 0:48obviously.
17. 0:49[Music]
18. 0:51Feels all swollen around the whole
19. 0:53coronet, actually, right around there.
20. 0:56Oh,
21. 0:57and it does not smell fantastic. Right.
22. 0:59So, we know exactly what the problem is
23. 1:01here. She has an This hidden beneath
24. 1:04these layers of hoof horn. We balance
25. 1:06out that inner claw and start reducing
26. 1:08the overall height of the outer claw,
27. 1:11but when looking from the side here, you
28. 1:12can see there's not actually all that
29. 1:14much overgrowth. These cows' feet are
30. 1:16very well looked after, but something
31. 1:19has gone wrong for this cow. She's had
32. 1:21some kind of accident, and that accident
33. 1:23has led to this painful problem. We
34. 1:26finish the trim off by preparing the
35. 1:28inner claw ready for a block and
36. 1:30beginning the model with a grinder just
37. 1:32to speed the process up with a knife and
38. 1:34give us less to do manually. Right.
39. 1:39I think actually we'll just get the
40. 1:40block on straight away and give it lots
41. 1:41of time to cure because it's quite cold
42. 1:43today.
43. 1:45Large or small?
44. 1:46Uh large, please, Craig.
45. 1:49That okay?
46. 1:50Just No, thicker one. Craig was asking
47. 1:52there. We've got two types of large
48. 1:54blocks. So, we So, we actually asked for
49. 1:56some large blocks from one of our
50. 1:57suppliers, and they did send us large
51. 1:58ones, but they weren't as thick as
52. 2:00usual. So, he's wanting to use them up,
53. 2:03but I would need this cow to be
54. 2:04completely up off the ground because
55. 2:05it's a sore sore lesion, so we're using
56. 2:07the thicker blocks. We pretty much
57. 2:09always want to use the thicker blocks,
58. 2:10to be honest, but sometimes we can use
59. 2:12these thinner blocks,
60. 2:15which we do need to do just to use them
61. 2:16up on problems which aren't quite so
62. 2:18serious.
63. 2:19Right. With that done, we can
64. 2:22see what else is hiding underneath this,
65. 2:24although I say that like we don't know.
66. 2:27Fairly sure we all know exactly what's
67. 2:28going to happen here.
68. 2:32Very, very familiar smell of
69. 2:36decaying hoof horn.
70. 2:40How far up does that go?
71. 2:44Yeah, it goes all the way I can feel it
72. 2:46all the way up here.
73. 2:49Just because I can feel it all the way
74. 2:50up there does not mean that I can just
75. 2:53take away huge slivers of hoof horn
76. 2:55because it could still be perfectly fine
77. 2:58in some areas. So, if I was
78. 3:00impatient and took too much off, I could
79. 3:03cause real problems.
80. 3:05So, we're going to thin the whole of
81. 3:07this sole down because we want to get
82. 3:08the weight away from the entire
83. 3:11heel area.
84. 3:14It's not just where the problem is
85. 3:16because when you're when you've got a
86. 3:17problem, obviously, it's not localized
87. 3:19to that tiny little spot. I'm talking
88. 3:22about you and I. I mean, if you have a
89. 3:23sore elbow, then your upper arm starts
90. 3:26to hurt, and your lower arm starts to
91. 3:27hurt, and everything because of that
92. 3:29problem in your elbow.
93. 3:35Getting to the delicate part of the trim
94. 3:36now, aren't we?
95. 3:38You see, I'm genuinely not sure if that
96. 3:40is corium or
97. 3:42part part of the problem right there
98. 3:45here, obviously. I think it's corium
99. 3:47under there.
100. 3:49But I don't want to leave anything
101. 3:50either, do I?
102. 3:58Just keep So, try to stick to the parts
103. 4:01that we definitely know need to come up
104. 4:03come away, and then we hope that the
105. 4:05rest kind of shows its hand so that we
106. 4:08can understand. See, now I'm doing that,
107. 4:10I'm thinking, "Oh, no, actually, maybe
108. 4:11it's
109. 4:12part of the problem."
110. 4:17Right.
111. 4:18I can definitely take this part away, so
112. 4:22I think this will be messy.
113. 4:27Again, that's periople horn there, so
114. 4:29you can see
115. 4:31it's sort of baggy because we've
116. 4:33let some of the fluid out.
117. 4:37Not enough of the fluid out, by the look
118. 4:39of it. Oh, bubbles.
119. 4:47[Music]
120. 4:50This is going to come away, a bit of it
121. 4:52anyway.
122. 4:54So, we'll just tease it up with my
123. 4:55fingers.
124. 4:56Snip away with a knife.
125. 5:00Just peel so I can understand what
126. 5:02what's happening. Oh, a mess, and look.
127. 5:05Pull all of this
128. 5:07gunk out.
129. 5:09Need to get this bit out as well.
130. 5:16Right.
131. 5:18Let's get the whole area saturated with
132. 5:21iodine and let it soak in salicylic acid
133. 5:23because it is definitely fairly open,
134. 5:25isn't it? She's going to feel it so much
135. 5:27better. Like I said, I didn't see her
136. 5:29walking to the crush, so I can't tell
137. 5:31you whether she was crippled. I can't
138. 5:32tell you any of that. What I can tell
139. 5:34you is that if I had that in my foot, I
140. 5:37would be in a huge amount of pain, and
141. 5:40I wouldn't be touching the ground. I
142. 5:42know she would be. This cow's
143. 5:44pain threshold is so high, but I
144. 5:47definitely would be in a massive amount
145. 5:49of pain.
146. 5:50Right. Hopefully,
147. 5:52we've helped the old girl.
148. 5:54Really interesting to see her actually
149. 5:55walking.
150. 5:57[Music]
151. 6:01Right.
152. 6:03[Music]
153. 6:12I know, I know, I know. I know, but
154. 6:14hopefully, we've helped you a lot. So,
155. 6:16letting her out of the crush here, I
156. 6:18have all my fingers and all of my toes
157. 6:20crossed hoping that she can put her foot
158. 6:22on the ground and that that block does
159. 6:25what it's intended to.
160. 6:27She's in anything but pain for you, I
161. 6:30can tell she.
162. 6:31The block is definitely helping, and the
163. 6:34release of that pressure should be an
164. 6:36immense relief for her. So,
165. 6:39hopefully, we've done her a good
166. 6:41service.
167. 6:48Mhm.