PEELING AWAY LAYERS from a SPRAYING ABSCESS | TRIMMING A COWS HOOF — Transcript

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2. 0:00hello and welcome to the hoof gp today
3. 0:03we're looking at this sexy little mama
4. 0:05cow 56 and her story so far this is the
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8. 0:16[Music]
9. 0:23[Applause]
10. 0:25[Music]
11. 0:32so we first saw this cow about four or
12. 0:34five weeks ago and she had an abscess
13. 0:36where poss was literally spraying out of
14. 0:38she was incredibly lame and she was even
15. 0:40lame on her back left and back right
16. 0:43foot we saw her again two weeks later
17. 0:45and this is how her food was looking
18. 0:47this is cow 56 a little over four weeks
19. 0:50ago and as you can see she had a huge
20. 0:53abscess in her back right foot it was
21. 0:56literally spraying out so we whipped out
22. 0:58the knife and set about getting our back
23. 1:01on the road to recovery
24. 1:03we uncovered a huge cavity that had been
25. 1:06filled with pus
26. 1:08so we applied a block using buffybond
27. 1:10and wrapped it with salicylic acid once
28. 1:12we'd removed all of the huffhorn this is
29. 1:15what it looked like before the bandage
30. 1:17this is how she was walking afterwards
31. 1:20she also had a sore back left foot
32. 1:23so just over two weeks now we returned
33. 1:26and this is what we found
34. 1:27she was well on the road to recovery but
35. 1:30definitely still had a long way to go
36. 1:33the lesion was still open and as you can
37. 1:35see it was weeping blood and therefore
38. 1:37causing a lot of pain
39. 1:39so we re-trimmed her re-wrapped her with
40. 1:41salicylic acid and moved on to that
41. 1:43painful left-hand foot
42. 1:45as you can see during the first trim i
43. 1:48had removed a lot of overburdening hoof
44. 1:50horn
45. 1:51and this time was going to be no
46. 1:53different
47. 1:54she has a white line defect and it's
48. 1:56covered in digital dermatitis
49. 1:59as you can see me peeling away the hoof
50. 2:01horn there you can see the exposed
51. 2:03corium
52. 2:05right there and it's completely infected
53. 2:08with digital dermatitis
54. 2:10so again we completely doused it with
55. 2:12iodine and we wrapped it with salicylic
56. 2:14acid then as always we let her go to see
57. 2:17how she was walking
58. 2:19now we're back two weeks later
59. 2:22so we've got our back in the crush and
60. 2:24we're just about to get our foot in the
61. 2:25air
62. 2:26[Music]
63. 2:27and after a little bit of a protest
64. 2:29we've got our foot in the air so let's
65. 2:31give it a bit of a wash up and see what
66. 2:33the results are
67. 2:38[Music]
68. 2:42she quite clearly has a hole where that
69. 2:45lesion was
70. 2:46and i can't be certain right now if it
71. 2:48has completely healed or not
72. 2:52so i whip out the grinder clean the
73. 2:53whole foot up before grabbing the knife
74. 2:55to investigate further and i've got my
75. 2:58fingers crossed that maybe just maybe
76. 3:00this couch hoof is completely fixed
77. 3:06[Music]
78. 3:16our hoof is much tougher than it was
79. 3:18last time we trimmed her that's because
80. 3:20this block has elevated the bad claw out
81. 3:22of the slurry and it's allowed it to dry
82. 3:25out and become much harder this knife is
83. 3:28really sharp but as you can see i'm
84. 3:30having some difficulty slicing through
85. 3:32it
86. 3:33now onto the meat of the drum let's see
87. 3:36if this really has or hasn't fixed
88. 3:50[Music]
89. 3:58the results are looking fantastic
90. 4:00i'm really happy with this result
91. 4:02but i need to be really careful cleaning
92. 4:04this up one little slip and all of my
93. 4:07good work could be undone this hoof horn
94. 4:10is less than a millimeter thick in
95. 4:12places and these knifes and grinders are
96. 4:15very sharp indeed so the word of the day
97. 4:17is caution
98. 4:20this transformation makes me a very
99. 4:23happy tremor now on to that second fruit
100. 4:26but before we left our second foot i
101. 4:28launched an online course back in march
102. 4:29of this year and i wasn't sure if it
103. 4:31would work an online hooptering course
104. 4:33how can that work well hundreds and
105. 4:35hundreds and hundreds of people all
106. 4:36around the world signed up for it and
107. 4:38it's been helping them massively and
108. 4:40what i want to do is give back a little
109. 4:42bit more and make sure i can help as
110. 4:44many of you as possible so if you lot
111. 4:45that have participated and signed up for
112. 4:47the online course want some feedback and
113. 4:49want some one-to-one time with me then
114. 4:50contact me at hello at
115. 4:53learnthehoofgp.com that's hello at
116. 4:55learnthehoofgp.com if you've taken the
117. 4:57online course i'll take half an hour out
118. 4:59of my time to speak to you guys and give
119. 5:01you any pointers or fill you in and
120. 5:03anything that you feel you're lacking or
121. 5:05give you feedback or anything you want
122. 5:06really about your farms and about your
123. 5:08cows i really want to help you guys as
124. 5:10much as i can and then we'll broadcast
125. 5:12that to the masses to help everybody
126. 5:14else so if you want some one-to-one time
127. 5:16with me then get in contact with me at
128. 5:18hello at
129. 5:19learnthehoofgb.com and hopefully we can
130. 5:21learn something from each other now
131. 5:23let's get our second foot in the air
132. 5:27this cow had a deep crack in the white
133. 5:29line of this bat left foot and these are
134. 5:31notoriously hard to fix she was
135. 5:34completely infected with digital
136. 5:36dermatitis on both the first and second
137. 5:38trims so i don't have high hopes for
138. 5:41this one
139. 5:42i'm expecting the problem still to be
140. 5:44there
141. 5:52and as you can see the lesion is still
142. 5:54there and is marginally better and she
143. 5:56is much more comfortable
144. 5:58but i'm still worried that we haven't
145. 6:00completely cured this problem
146. 6:02so we douse it in item
147. 6:04and add another block
148. 6:10a cow's wall horn grows at around six or
149. 6:12seven millimeters per month and we've
150. 6:14just removed around 10 millimeters
151. 6:16meaning these blocks need to last at
152. 6:18least six weeks so the extra height will
153. 6:20be seriously beneficial to this cow now
154. 6:23let's get out the crush and say bye bye
155. 6:33so in the little interlude i talked
156. 6:35about the guys who have done the online
157. 6:37course and this is what it teaches you
158. 6:39how to cure cows like this but it is
159. 6:42about give and take so like i said
160. 6:44earlier on contact me at hello at
161. 6:47learnthehoofgp.com and hopefully we can
162. 6:49do a one-to-one and give you as much
163. 6:51feedback as possible cheers guys from me
164. 6:53and from cow56 goodbye catch you next
165. 6:56time