It Jumps Right Out At You — Transcript

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1. 0:00I always love it when the problem jumps
2. 0:02right out at you. Welcome back
3. 0:05to Nate the Hoof Guy.
4. 0:10Sometimes, even though you know the
5. 0:12problem is on a particular claw, you
6. 0:14still have to go looking for it. With
7. 0:16these, it's right in a specific spot,
8. 0:18and it stands right out.
9. 0:31And after removing just a few pieces of
10. 0:33hoof horn, the extent of the separation
11. 0:36becomes known.
12. 0:46As I'm trimming here, I'm just looking
13. 0:48to remove any of those layers that are
14. 0:50already separated. The hoof horn that's
15. 0:52still intact can stay in place.
16. 1:11I work both above and below the actual
17. 1:13lesion itself, removing any of the loose
18. 1:15horn as it's tracked out the top and
19. 1:17work its way down toward that toe.
20. 1:46Right in here is where we got to focus
21. 1:47our attention. That's where the problem
22. 1:49itself actually lies. We got to trim all
23. 1:51the way around that, freeing it of any
24. 1:53loose horn that could irritate it.
25. 2:01Right up here is where the original
26. 2:03defect was.
27. 2:09Now, this particular farm is where we
28. 2:10first met cow number 61. She was a
29. 2:13heifer at the time. This is her then
30. 2:16walking in.
31. 2:17She had a problem with that right rear
32. 2:19foot, and when we looked real close, we
33. 2:21were able to actually extract a piece of
34. 2:23pedal bone, believe it or not. And then
35. 2:25we worked to get her back in shape.
36. 2:28Well, that was about a year and a half
37. 2:29ago. Here we are now. We're back in and
38. 2:32what now what we have to do is we just
39. 2:33work to shape this claw up. There's
40. 2:36nothing really wrong with it anymore,
41. 2:38but we still have to trim it and make
42. 2:39sure that it's in the correct shape, and
43. 2:41we have to do that more often than we
44. 2:43would a typical cow just because of the
45. 2:45changes in this claw, it tends to get
46. 2:48out of balance much quicker. So, that's
47. 2:50why we have to shape it up. But, as you
48. 2:52can see, it's looking pretty good now.
49. 2:54It's hard to believe what actually
50. 2:56happened at that time.
51. 2:58I'll put an end screen up at the end of
52. 3:00this video if you want to go back and
53. 3:01watch those original trims. Now, back to
54. 3:04this cow. We're going to get a block on
55. 3:05this other claw, and we're going to go
56. 3:07back and touch up all those little edges
57. 3:09around that. I can do that now. I can
58. 3:11get this block on now knowing exactly
59. 3:12what the extent of that is, what I have
60. 3:14left to work on. I can get the block on
61. 3:16and let that gear that glue begin to
62. 3:18cure.
63. 3:29This glue takes about 10 seconds to
64. 3:31begin to set up and about 3 minutes to
65. 3:33cure.
66. 3:37Right in here is the problem we need to
67. 3:38address now. However, that's not where
68. 3:40it started. The problem actually started
69. 3:42up above in a in that white line, and
70. 3:45this area here remains open because of
71. 3:48digital dermatitis. So, that's what we
72. 3:49need to get trimmed out and fixed at
73. 3:51this point. Like I said before, these
74. 3:53things will heal eventually on their
75. 3:55own. However, we like to speed this
76. 3:56process up because if we don't speed it
77. 3:59up, that gives opportunity for exactly
78. 4:02what happened here to happen. For
79. 4:03bacteria to get in there and cause a
80. 4:05problem in a different spot altogether.
81. 4:27Trying to work carefully along these
82. 4:28edges because there's really not much
83. 4:30more hoof horn to remove here.
84. 4:42Right up here, that's where that
85. 4:44original flaw started out. However,
86. 4:46you're going to notice as I start to
87. 4:47trim this away, that mark's going to
88. 4:49disappear. This actually has resolved on
89. 4:51its own. However, down below, that's
90. 4:54what we still need to fix now.
91. 5:08The final solution is the salicylic acid
92. 5:11wrap. That's going to take care of this
93. 5:12final problem here and get that all
94. 5:14finished up. So, now you can see the
95. 5:16importance of why we actually remove
96. 5:18what we do and why we do it. It's
97. 5:21creates an opportunity for other
98. 5:23problems to happen if we don't get to
99. 5:24these as soon as possible. These cows on
100. 5:26pasture makes a little more difficult
101. 5:28because they don't show that lameness
102. 5:30nearly as easily.
103. 5:33Now, she's walking away much better now.