I Wasn’t Expecting to Find That — Transcript

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1. 0:00When you see a cow standing with her
2. 0:02foot like this, you know there's
3. 0:03something wrong inside. Welcome back
4. 0:06to Nate the Hoof Guy.
5. 0:20At first glance, I can tell it's going
6. 0:22to be in that claw on the left, probably
7. 0:25right in here somewhere. So, let's get
8. 0:27started.
9. 0:33I'm often asked why I don't wash the
10. 0:34hooves off before I start, and that's
11. 0:36because I want to make sure that these
12. 0:38hooves are as dry as possible before I
13. 0:40start trimming. I'm working with power
14. 0:42tools and sharp knives, so having wet
15. 0:44working conditions, well, it's obviously
16. 0:46can be dangerous.
17. 0:50So, why not just wash the hooves and
18. 0:51then dry them before you trim them? The
19. 0:53idea of washing and drying 200 hooves in
20. 0:56a day, it's just not practical. And as
21. 0:59you can see, with just a few swipes of
22. 1:00that grinder, the bottom of that hoof is
23. 1:03actually pretty clean now, already.
24. 1:10Now, right along the outside wall here,
25. 1:12some rocks have worked their way in
26. 1:13there, starting to chip that wall away.
27. 1:15So, I want to trim that out just to make
28. 1:16sure that more rocks don't get caught in
29. 1:18there and cause a bigger problem yet.
30. 1:21Now, after trimming this, I don't really
31. 1:23see anything wrong with that hoof
32. 1:25necessarily in that white line. So, I
33. 1:27spray it out just to check, nothing in
34. 1:28that interdigital cleft either. But,
35. 1:30right here, there may be a problem.
36. 1:39And sure enough, there it is.
37. 1:51If you're wondering why I didn't suspect
38. 1:53this area was going to hide the lesion,
39. 1:54it's because this area hides very few.
40. 1:57About one in every 100 lesions you'll
41. 1:59find in this particular spot in the toe
42. 2:01triangle, and I don't like to dig in
43. 2:02there, spend a lot of time removing hoof
44. 2:04horn there if I don't suspect there to
45. 2:06be a problem. Now, in this case, having
46. 2:08ruled out everything else along that
47. 2:10white line, I decided to investigate it,
48. 2:12and then we find the problem. But, like
49. 2:14I said, rarely do we find it there.
50. 2:20Now, it's just a matter of tracking the
51. 2:22separated hoof horn as far up as it goes
52. 2:24to see where it terminates.
53. 2:44Oftentimes, this will track all the way
54. 2:46up out that heel bulb or to the
55. 2:48hairline. Here, it doesn't go all the
56. 2:50way to the heel bulb. I know that cuz I
57. 2:51can see up there there's no breaks. So,
58. 2:53I just have to track this up as far as
59. 2:55it goes and remove any loose horn that I
60. 2:57can.
61. 3:18I apologize for blocking the view in
62. 3:20some of these. I'm not necessarily
63. 3:21paying attention to where the camera's
64. 3:22located when I'm trimming these, so I
65. 3:25get in the way, but don't worry, we'll
66. 3:26be done here in a second.
67. 3:40As I'm working my way down toward the
68. 3:41toe here, just removing any of this
69. 3:43loose wall horn round it. You can see
70. 3:45where that is, where the white line is
71. 3:46here. This is new hoof horn that's
72. 3:48already formed, new sole. Right here is
73. 3:50that lesion. We're going to get a block
74. 3:52on that other claw, and we're going to
75. 3:53get it sprayed out and get a little bit
76. 3:54closer look.
77. 4:12Now, when I round the toes with my
78. 4:13grinder, it looks like I'm going right
79. 4:14up against that white line, but that
80. 4:16white line is actually in further. You
81. 4:18can see it here. That extra length is
82. 4:20because of the sole thickness. We've got
83. 4:22a good sole thickness, that white line
84. 4:24is actually going to be in further, so
85. 4:25I'm not going to cut across that white
86. 4:27line when I'm trimming.
87. 4:40You see right where that's located. Now,
88. 4:42it's not very big, but this is a very
89. 4:44sensitive area. So, regardless of size,
90. 4:46we want to make sure we get that trimmed
91. 4:48out. We're going to get that salicylic
92. 4:49acid wrap in place. That's going to take
93. 4:51care of any potential bacteria issues
94. 4:53with digital dermatitis there.
95. 4:55And we're going to let her out and see
96. 4:56how she walks.
97. 5:04Well, she looks pretty content, doesn't
98. 5:05she? We're going to get this foot down,
99. 5:07let her go. You can see she's still got
100. 5:09some discomfort in that foot, but in no
101. 5:11time, she should be feeling much better.