Missed Cow Hooves Were So Overgrown She Struggled To Walk — Transcript

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1. 0:00That is a very big foot. And just for
2. 0:02clarity, it's [music] not supposed to
3. 0:04look like that. And from the front, it
4. 0:06definitely doesn't look any better. This
5. 0:08is the Hoof GP. And an absolutely
6. 0:10massive back [music] foot.
7. 0:15[singing]
8. 0:16>> When I see you dance and the moments
9. 0:18when I fall [music and singing]
10. 0:20and go slow,
11. 0:23I fall into you. [singing and music]
12. 0:30>> [music]
13. 0:32>> These hoodies and these Christmas
14. 0:33pajamas are also back in stock, but they
15. 0:35keep selling out really quickly. So, if
16. 0:37you would like this Highland Cow hoodie
17. 0:39or these [music] Christmas pajamas, then
18. 0:41be as quick as you possibly can because
19. 0:43they will sell out probably very
20. 0:45quickly. If this food hadn't been so
21. 0:48big, I'd be saying, "Look at how
22. 0:49overgrown this food is." But
23. 0:51comparatively, it doesn't look that bad.
24. 0:53Although, it [music] is definitely still
25. 0:55really overgrown. Right, let's separate
26. 0:57the claws so we can work on them
27. 0:58individually.
28. 0:59>> Here in southwest Scotland, many of the
29. 1:01cows live very natural style lifestyles.
30. 1:04These cows [music] have been out grazing
31. 1:06on the pastures all spring and all
32. 1:09summertime, and they haven't been
33. 1:11wearing their feet down. Our [music]
34. 1:13land is saturated with moisture from the
35. 1:15amount of rain we get, meaning that they
36. 1:18don't wear [music] their feet at all.
37. 1:20Cow's feet grow at approximately 7 mm
38. 1:23per [music] month. So over the course of
39. 1:256 months, they can and do often get very
40. 1:28overgrown. But when you see cow's feet
41. 1:31like this that aren't worn [music] at
42. 1:32all towards the toe, you immediately
43. 1:34assume there is a problem. And that
44. 1:37[music] there definitely is in this
45. 1:39case.
46. 1:49Her feet are sort of blackish bluish
47. 1:52color. That is pigmentation. [music]
48. 1:54Just like the color of your skin or my
49. 1:56skin, her feet have pigmentation and it
50. 1:58leads to [music] that color. A
51. 2:00sidebyside comparison shows the huge
52. 2:02difference between before she was
53. 2:04trimmed [music] and now. She'll be much
54. 2:07more comfortable. However, this back
55. 2:09right foot [music] is clearly still in
56. 2:11the before state, and it is absolutely
57. 2:14colossal. I'm washing her foot off to
58. 2:17try to get rid of any little stones that
59. 2:19are stuck in the undulations, stuck in
60. 2:21the small cavities between the flaps of
61. 2:23loose huorn. If I leave any, the grinder
62. 2:26can flick them out and hit them against
63. 2:28my hands, which seriously hurts. Right.
64. 2:32Anyway, the task at hand is a very big
65. 2:35one, so we best be getting on with it.
66. 2:38That foot is absolutely huge. I separate
67. 2:42the claws using a nozzle so that I can
68. 2:44concentrate on one without accidentally
69. 2:47[music] trimming the other. Even the
70. 2:49inner claw is actually overgrown. It's
71. 2:51just that this outer or lateral one is
72. 2:54so huge that the inner one looks pretty
73. 2:57good.
74. 3:08Now that we've trimmed back that inner
75. 3:10claw a little bit, we can see that the
76. 3:12outer claw or the one closest to us is
77. 3:14around 5 in [music] too long.
78. 3:31All of that black gunge coming out of
79. 3:33her toe lets me know that there is a
80. 3:35void inside there and that this foot may
81. 3:38be actually a lot worse than it first
82. 3:41appears. If that's possible.
83. 4:00I'm actually now past the point of where
84. 4:02a healthy foot should have started to
85. 4:05appear. So, this is indeed not just a
86. 4:08case of overgrown feet, but there's a
87. 4:10serious problem lurking beneath.
88. 4:32Believe it or not, these are the types
89. 4:34of feet where you can easily go too far.
90. 4:37This foot was colossal when we started,
91. 4:40and patience can get the better of you.
92. 4:43It's easy to try to speed up knowing
93. 4:45that you have a huge amount of hoof horn
94. 4:47to take away, but that's when you make
95. 4:50mistakes. The inside of this foot does
96. 4:53not look like an average foot. The
97. 4:55biology or the the the architecture, if
98. 4:59you like, of the hoof capsule itself has
99. 5:01completely changed. So, I'm constantly
100. 5:03analyzing the foot, trying to decide
101. 5:06what I think we can take away. I say
102. 5:09think very carefully because this is an
103. 5:11educated guess. We can't possibly know
104. 5:14what is on the inside of this cow's
105. 5:17foot. It's deformed and contorted. It's
106. 5:20not regular. So, I'm having to reassess
107. 5:23it with every slither of hipworm that's
108. 5:26being removed.
109. 5:40Yeah. Block, please, Craig.
110. 5:45>> It looks like this issue in her white
111. 5:47line is what she's been avoiding putting
112. 5:49weight on. By avoiding putting any
113. 5:52weight on the toe, she also avoids
114. 5:54wearing any of that hoof horn away,
115. 5:56which has resulted in these hugely
116. 5:59overgrown feet. So, I'm going to attach
117. 6:01a block so that she doesn't have to
118. 6:03avoid using that part of her foot. All
119. 6:06of her weight will now be put through
120. 6:08this wooden block that I'm about to
121. 6:10attach. Or at least that's the hope. And
122. 6:14in that hope, we should make her more
123. 6:16comfortable. She won't have to walk on
124. 6:19her heels anymore because this block
125. 6:22will be doing the heavy lifting. And
126. 6:24hopefully once we trim out the rest of
127. 6:26this foot, it can begin to heal.
128. 6:30Once I finish this trim and we can let
129. 6:32the cow out of the crush, she is going
130. 6:34to feel a colossal difference. Imagine
131. 6:38how much more comfortable she's going to
132. 6:39be walking without this colossal foot
133. 6:42hanging off the end of her leg. It's
134. 6:45cold here in southwest Scotland right
135. 6:47now. And I don't know if you can hear it
136. 6:49or not, but I have the sniffles. These
137. 6:52cows are going in for the winter. So,
138. 6:54this has been a really good opportunity
139. 6:56for us to tidy up her foot and make her
140. 6:59[music] as comfortable as we possibly
141. 7:01can for the winter ahead. Just look at
142. 7:04the difference in this foot. We've
143. 7:06shaved off around 5 1/2 in from [music]
144. 7:09the outer claw and in the process
145. 7:11hopefully made her a huge amount more
146. 7:14comfortable.
147. 7:16[music]
148. 7:20In an ideal world, all cows feet would
149. 7:22[music] be perfect all of the time. But
150. 7:24we don't live in an ideal world. Nature
151. 7:27can be harsh. Our land is not perfect
152. 7:30for these cows. And that's why we need
153. 7:32to intervene like this to do what we
154. 7:35[music] can to make sure that these cows
155. 7:37live the best and most comfortable life
156. 7:39that they possibly can in this beautiful
157. 7:42[music] little corner of southwest
158. 7:44Scotland, which we absolutely love to
159. 7:46call home.
160. 7:48And to be honest, I think she's walking
161. 7:50fairly well. I'd say this has been a job
162. 7:53well done. But I'd love to know what
163. 7:56[music] you think. So, please drop a
164. 7:58comment below and tell me what you think
165. 8:00of this trim. Remember, all of that
166. 8:02merch is back in stock, by the way,
167. 8:03folks.