REMOVING MAGGOTS from an INFECTED COWS FOOT! — Transcript

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1. 0:00hello and welcome to the fifth gp in
2. 0:02this episode we're heading to a friend
3. 0:04of mine who's very much a friend in need
4. 0:07he's got four cows which he's really
5. 0:09wanting me to get there and get trimmed
6. 0:11up to get them as comfortable as
7. 0:12possible so without further ado
8. 0:16[Music]
9. 0:24[Applause]
10. 0:26[Music]
11. 0:34so cakes what did daddy have on youtube
12. 0:37today a million subscribers how good is
13. 0:39that and it's all thanks to you guys the
14. 0:41hair the hair has increased to a million
15. 0:45subscribers just let that sink in one
16. 0:47million people who are as weird about
17. 0:49feet as me that's right thank you very
18. 0:52much this journey has been incredible
19. 0:55the most important thing though is
20. 0:56getting to my friend's house right now
21. 0:58to get these four cattle in the crash
22. 1:00get their feet in there get them looking
23. 1:02sexy but the most important thing for
24. 1:04you guys right now is to hit the
25. 1:06subscribe button couldn't say it better
26. 1:08myself geeks
27. 1:14[Applause]
28. 1:17the cattle that we're on our way to
29. 1:18treat live a very natural lifestyle and
30. 1:21the problems they have the type that you
31. 1:23would find in wild cattle the only
32. 1:25difference is we are here to fix them
33. 1:27just like that we're here
34. 1:29to one of the best kept beef farms that
35. 1:31i go to
36. 1:32[Music]
37. 1:40if it doesn't come out just leave it so
38. 1:41the man you see before your eyes is a
39. 1:43lifelong friend of mine he is a dear
40. 1:46friend and he has an absolutely
41. 1:47fantastic farmer he's called me out to
42. 1:50look at four of his cattle but one in
43. 1:52particular is needing a lot of attention
44. 1:56it's a young bull calve well actually
45. 1:58he's probably just about a year old so
46. 2:00he's a steer or a stark or whatever you
47. 2:03would like to call him depending on what
48. 2:05part of the world you're from
49. 2:06i've brought keira along for the day
50. 2:08because craig is not here and anyway
51. 2:10craig can't drive whereas kia can and he
52. 2:13can help move the pickup
53. 2:16here
54. 2:17will you
55. 2:25[Music]
56. 2:28yes
57. 2:29okay
58. 2:31so we've got five maybe six to do
59. 2:34they're big bad beasts they're not
60. 2:36really they're nice it's just not
61. 2:37working that much these cows live
62. 2:39outside for most of the year so they're
63. 2:40in really good condition but because we
64. 2:42have a wet climate in scotland their
65. 2:44feet need trim from time to time because
66. 2:46they don't shed off as naturally as they
67. 2:48would in a dry climate
68. 2:51she seems keen
69. 2:52james knows these cattle better than i
70. 2:54do so i try not to get in the way
71. 3:00as i said a few moments ago these cattle
72. 3:03lead a very natural lifestyle they live
73. 3:06on green green pastures and during the
74. 3:08winter time when it's too cold for them
75. 3:10they come inside to these lovely sheds
76. 3:13these sheds are really well kept and
77. 3:14they're only inside for a couple of
78. 3:16months the rest of the year they get the
79. 3:18sun in their back and their beautiful
80. 3:20scottish air in their lungs so usually
81. 3:23they have fantastic feet and they only
82. 3:26need a small amount of work to make sure
83. 3:28that they stay in tip-top condition
84. 3:31however things do happen from time to
85. 3:33time just like humans cows have
86. 3:35accidents and these accidents need to be
87. 3:38addressed that's where i come in the
88. 3:40role of hoof trimmers is to make sure
89. 3:43that we keep cow's feet in tip-top
90. 3:45condition and make sure that they're as
91. 3:47comfortable as possible
92. 3:49take this food for instance it just
93. 3:51needs a small rebalance and to make sure
94. 3:54that slight little indentation there
95. 3:56comes to no great problem
96. 3:59as it is all she needs is the weight
97. 4:01taken off that area and a small amount
98. 4:03of iodine to dry up the thin horn
99. 4:06covering that area and she'll be good to
100. 4:08go however as you're just about to see
101. 4:11that is not always the extent of the
102. 4:14problems that these cows can have
103. 4:19[Music]
104. 4:28you'll notice that i don't polish this
105. 4:30cow's fruit
106. 4:31when i say polish i mean i don't go into
107. 4:33the absolute finite details that we do
108. 4:35with dairy cattle and that's because
109. 4:37they're living outside and these little
110. 4:39tiny margins will not make much
111. 4:42difference to her whatsoever it's more
112. 4:44important just to give her those little
113. 4:46tweaks to make sure that she stays as
114. 4:48comfortable as possible for as long as
115. 4:50we possibly can
116. 4:51[Music]
117. 4:54the farmer tells me the front left foot
118. 4:56on this car is showing signs of lameness
119. 4:58now the strange thing is cows because
120. 5:01they're herding animals actually hide
121. 5:03lameness they do everything they can to
122. 5:05mask it because lameness is a sign of
123. 5:07weakness and we all know what happens to
124. 5:10the weak members of the herd in the wild
125. 5:12they become prey
126. 5:14so this cow is invested in making sure
127. 5:17that she masks the lameness as much as
128. 5:20she possibly can
129. 5:21however things have gotten top of her
130. 5:23and it's gone too far so here we are
131. 5:26whether in the crash about to make her a
132. 5:29whole lot more comfortable
133. 5:32[Music]
134. 5:46so
135. 5:48[Music]
136. 6:01as we can all see this cow's feet are
137. 6:03not particularly overgrown this isn't
138. 6:06something that could have been picked up
139. 6:08on months ago and healed more quickly
140. 6:11it's just simply not the case our heel
141. 6:13has been eaten away by digital
142. 6:15dermatitis which has then gone
143. 6:17underneath the sole and started to eat
144. 6:20away at the aquarium right now i'm
145. 6:22pulling out that dirt so that i know how
146. 6:24far i can go with the grinder using the
147. 6:27grinder on couch feet like this is
148. 6:29really really appropriate because it
149. 6:31means you can finish the trim much more
150. 6:33quickly and therefore get the cab out of
151. 6:36the crush
152. 6:37but we cannot get close enough for the
153. 6:39grinder and we need that visceral touch
154. 6:42of the knife
155. 6:44so we continue to pair away until we
156. 6:46find what's lurking beneath
157. 6:55[Music]
158. 7:04as i scrape back that dirt from the
159. 7:06corium you can see digital dermatitis
160. 7:09infecting the open lesion
161. 7:11and now we can all see those maggots
162. 7:14which have infected or rather infested
163. 7:17this cow's food
164. 7:19now some people will be watching this
165. 7:20and just about to type that maggots can
166. 7:22be a good thing and will eat away the
167. 7:24rotten flesh and that is absolutely
168. 7:27correct
169. 7:28however there's also a process called
170. 7:30myiosis and that is when maggots
171. 7:32continue to eat
172. 7:34good flesh
173. 7:36and after all
174. 7:37if you had maggots in your foot would
175. 7:39you like me to remove them or just leave
176. 7:41them where they are
177. 7:43i think we all know the answer to that
178. 7:46[Music]
179. 7:54i continued to peer away at all of the
180. 7:57disconnected hoof horn
181. 7:59if i left any of these cracks or this
182. 8:02loose disconnected horn dirt would
183. 8:04regress and get stuck underneath the
184. 8:07flaps again making the perfect
185. 8:09environment for maggots to infect
186. 8:12we need to make sure we get rid of every
187. 8:15shred of sharp or disconnected horn if
188. 8:18we ever want this lesion to completely
189. 8:22[Music]
190. 8:24heal just touching the corium leads it
191. 8:27to bleed
192. 8:29but i finished the trim so we dress it
193. 8:31with iodine and that will really help to
194. 8:33clear up that digital dermatitis
195. 8:36but probably not sufficiently enough so
196. 8:39we add salicylic acid and a very loose
197. 8:42wrap i don't want james to have to get
198. 8:44this cow back in just to pull the wrap
199. 8:46off so we aim for the wrap to fall off
200. 8:49itself after one or two days
201. 8:52then it's on with the back feet and this
202. 8:54is a really good example of how a cow's
203. 8:56feet should shed if you look around the
204. 8:59outside edge the wall horn
205. 9:02that part of the foot is the weight
206. 9:04baling surface it's the structure of the
207. 9:06foot it's where all of the integrity of
208. 9:09the hoof capsule
209. 9:11can be found
210. 9:12and that is why it has not shed away if
211. 9:15you look at the soles they're lower down
212. 9:17or higher up depending on how you look
213. 9:19at it and that's because it's much
214. 9:21easier to shed away
215. 9:23again all we do is rebalance these feet
216. 9:25we don't go to town on them we don't go
217. 9:28into the finite details we just
218. 9:30rebalance them and make the cow
219. 9:32more comfortable
220. 9:33[Music]
221. 9:35and this back left foot is exactly the
222. 9:37same as the right it just needs a bit of
223. 9:40polishing
224. 9:45[Music]
225. 10:01all things considered i think this
226. 10:03limousine cow is walking particularly
227. 10:06well considering the problems she has
228. 10:08with that front left foot
229. 10:11this next cow is a regular she has had
230. 10:13laminitis and that is when the outside
231. 10:16wall or rather the connective tissues
232. 10:18between the outside wall and the
233. 10:20interior of the foot stretch they are
234. 10:23inflamed and that leads to huge
235. 10:25overgrowth this cow is trimmed twice a
236. 10:28year every year we keep on top of it and
237. 10:31that helps to minimize the risk of hard
238. 10:33lameness but as you'll see it is a
239. 10:36fairly graphic fruit
240. 10:38graphic in the sense of it's very
241. 10:40overgrown but it is being managed
242. 10:42successfully by this farmer
243. 10:45[Music]
244. 11:03the purple and red patches you can see
245. 11:05on the outer claw are bruising or
246. 11:07hemorrhaging because this outside claw
247. 11:09is overloaded with weight it's supposed
248. 11:12to have 50 of the weight but as you can
249. 11:15see it's substantially bigger than that
250. 11:17inner claw so it has been carrying far
251. 11:20too much weight and that's what our job
252. 11:22is
253. 11:23we're weight management technicians
254. 11:26we're trying to transfer a lot of the
255. 11:28weight that that outside claw is bearing
256. 11:30onto the inner claw and thereby stop
257. 11:33that bruising materializing into a real
258. 11:36lameness issue for this cave
259. 11:48this cow's back left foot was almost
260. 11:50identical to her back right and that's
261. 11:52something you commonly find cow's feet
262. 11:55mirror each other if there's something
263. 11:57wrong with the bat right foot a lot of
264. 11:59the time the same problem is present in
265. 12:02the back left but to a differing degree
266. 12:05this little angus did not have many
267. 12:07problems whatsoever so we wept round all
268. 12:10four of her feet before letting her get
269. 12:12back to her friends in the pasture
270. 12:14then we moved on to the problematic case
271. 12:18the steer the stark the young bull the
272. 12:20bullock whatever you want to call him
273. 12:23this guy presented us with an altogether
274. 12:25different problem
275. 12:27[Music]
276. 12:30as you can see james and i try to work
277. 12:32as calmly as possible with these cattle
278. 12:34they're scared of humans and they don't
279. 12:36know we're trying to help but
280. 12:38they still are extremely flighty and
281. 12:41this little guy
282. 12:42does not like being in my crush
283. 12:49my absolute priority is the safety of
284. 12:51the cattle in my care when i'm trimming
285. 12:53them and as you can see this little guy
286. 12:55is really stressed out by all of these
287. 12:58new happenings he doesn't want to be in
288. 13:01my crush
289. 13:02but
290. 13:03he needs to be for his health and his
291. 13:05well-being so we continue to work and we
292. 13:08tweak and move and maneuver the crush in
293. 13:10various ways to try to keep him as calm
294. 13:12as possible i trimmed the back left foot
295. 13:15really quickly so that i could move on
296. 13:17with this back right foot and as you can
297. 13:20see he has real problems
298. 13:22firstly i level up and balance that
299. 13:25inner claw before moving on to this
300. 13:27seriously out of shape outer claw
301. 13:29believe it or not this guy is not lame
302. 13:32on this fruit at all it does not look
303. 13:34good and he is probably pretty
304. 13:36uncomfortable but he is not in pain but
305. 13:39it's still my job to promote his levels
306. 13:42of comfort and make sure going forward
307. 13:44nothing untoward happens
308. 13:47[Music]
309. 14:06so
310. 14:18just like me this foot is definitely not
311. 14:21going to win any beauty contests anytime
312. 14:24soon
313. 14:25it is however going to be much more
314. 14:27comfortable for him we're not going to
315. 14:29take it too far because this is not a
316. 14:31problem we can fix through trimming the
317. 14:33bone structure within the claw has
318. 14:35deviated there is a serious issue here
319. 14:38but as you can see he is perfectly
320. 14:40mobile and able to run away from us with
321. 14:44absolute glee that bill couldn't even
322. 14:47walk before he went in the crash
323. 14:49and with that we just have this one old
324. 14:51belgian blue left and she just needs a
325. 14:53bit of a tidy up so we crack on with
326. 14:56that job so that we can get tidied up
327. 14:59have a bit of a gossip and get home to
328. 15:02my beautiful wife and little boy
329. 15:04guys this has been the hoof gp thank you
330. 15:07very very much for all of the love
331. 15:09support wishes and comments that you
332. 15:11guys give us
333. 15:12catch you on the next one
334. 15:14[Music]