Satisfying Restoration Of Cow's Twisted, Overgrown Feet — Transcript

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1. 0:00I'll be totally honest, I don't always
2. 0:01understand cows' feet.
3. 0:03And [music] this cow is one of those
4. 0:05times because I don't really understand
5. 0:07why this foot looks so [music] bad. This
6. 0:10is the Hoof GP.
7. 0:24>> [singing and music]
8. 0:34>> And this is why it confuses me. This
9. 0:36cow's feet are well looked after.
10. 0:38They hardly need anything off this back
11. 0:41left foot. Hardly anything, but not
12. 0:43nothing.
13. 0:46She just needs a slither of both toes
14. 0:48because they're slightly [music] too
15. 0:49long, and then the outer claw taken down
16. 0:52to the same height as the inner one.
17. 0:53Then a little bit of stabilization on
18. 0:55the medial or inner claw, and then
19. 0:58modeled out to begin with with the
20. 1:00grinder.
21. 1:01Finished with the knife.
22. 1:06Lovely.
23. 1:08Next foot.
24. 1:10And this foot is very similar, [music]
25. 1:12although I start by lowering the toe a
26. 1:14little bit before moving on to the
27. 1:16length of the toe just so that [music] I
28. 1:18can judge it a little bit better. Then
29. 1:20remove the excess height from the outer
30. 1:22claw, and a little bit of stabilization
31. 1:24again on the inner claw before modeling
32. 1:27[music] out once again with the grinder
33. 1:29and finishing off with a knife. You see
34. 1:31a pattern here.
35. 1:33It's called routine trimming.
36. 1:35So, we'll just model out that little bit
37. 1:37wider.
38. 1:41Get the knife in there because she's got
39. 1:43this big ridge, and we don't want that
40. 1:45there.
41. 1:47You really don't want to over-trim this
42. 1:48area. If you over-trim this area on a
43. 1:50cow's foot, there is no doubt about it
44. 1:52whatsoever, you've made her lame. It's
45. 1:54not a case of she might go lame or she
46. 1:57There's a possibility in the future you
47. 1:58will have made her lame. So, you need to
48. 2:00be very, very [music] careful
49. 2:02trimming away that inner edge, right?
50. 2:04Her dew claws are slightly overgrown on
51. 2:06this foot as well. So, what we do is
52. 2:08grab the grinder once again and trim
53. 2:10back that inner dew claw. These are
54. 2:12remnants from when cows used to walk on
55. 2:14boggy marsh ground and it helped stop
56. 2:17the cows' feet from sinking into the mud
57. 2:19too much. Now that they're done, it's
58. 2:21onto the front left foot.
59. 2:23>> Which also does not look fantastic, but
60. 2:25isn't as bad as the front left.
61. 2:27>> We got confused there about which feet
62. 2:29it is which feet which Yeah, which foot
63. 2:31it is. Front right is bad one, front
64. 2:33left one is not. I'm on it right now.
65. 2:37Although, if I look from the other end
66. 2:38of the cow, I was right in both
67. 2:40instances.
68. 2:42Now this is in the air, it doesn't look
69. 2:44all that bad, but you saw that really
70. 2:45big twist and the way she was standing
71. 2:48really awkwardly when it was on the
72. 2:50ground. And looking from this angle, you
73. 2:52can see it's more than half an inch in
74. 2:55difference in height at the tip of her
75. 2:56toe, meaning all of the pressure is on
76. 2:58that area and there could be an issue.
77. 3:02And those lines just to keep the toes
78. 3:03separated, that way I can work
79. 3:05individually on one without any fear of
80. 3:07hitting the other one accidentally. So,
81. 3:09I'm going to start with this outer claw
82. 3:11and make that my model claw. In other
83. 3:14words, I'm going to try to make it
84. 3:15perfect and then replicate that on the
85. 3:17inner claw when it comes time to do
86. 3:19that. And as I start to grind away, that
87. 3:22familiar sight of pith starts to show
88. 3:24which head.
89. 3:26This is pith here, this white powdery
90. 3:28substance. I'm assuming it's named after
91. 3:32orange pith, but I'm not sure. It's a
92. 3:34white flaky substance, so when it's got
93. 3:35a kind of funny smell to it. Not a bad
94. 3:37smell, not a good smell, just a kind of
95. 3:39funky one. Okay, let's just address the
96. 3:41elephant in the room. Yes, my face is
97. 3:44absolutely and utterly filthy and I've
98. 3:46no idea why Craigy boy did not mention
99. 3:48it at the time, but we do work in a
100. 3:50pretty dirty environment. I didn't
101. 3:52realize it was covered in excrement. And
102. 3:54yes, I realize that normally people
103. 3:56would know that their face is covered in
104. 3:58excrement, but I hope you'll appreciate
105. 4:00that this is quite a regular occurrence
106. 4:02for me. I'm very sorry if it's
107. 4:04off-putting. Anyway, back to the video.
108. 4:06And this is the hoof naturally shedding
109. 4:09away. It's not a bad sign, it's not a
110. 4:10good sign. It's just a sign that this
111. 4:13wants to flake away from the foot
112. 4:15because these feet actually naturally
113. 4:17shed away.
114. 4:18>> All right, it's good.
115. 4:20>> A little bit like skin.
116. 4:22I stole that from Craig.
117. 4:24Anyway,
118. 4:26so this is going to be a substantial
119. 4:28length of grinder trim. These feet are
120. 4:31very hard to trim because they've got a
121. 4:33twist in them. It's very hard for us to
122. 4:35understand fully exactly what is going
123. 4:38on inside the hoof capsule.
124. 4:40So I'm constantly working between
125. 4:42lowering the entire height of the claw
126. 4:44and shortening it. And working between
127. 4:46the two, I'm constantly reassessing the
128. 4:49foot to make absolutely certain that I'm
129. 4:51not going too far, but that hopefully I
130. 4:54am going far enough. I also trim a
131. 4:56little bit down the actual wall. And
132. 4:58like I said with the back feet, I need
133. 5:00to be incredibly careful when trimming
134. 5:02between these feet because if I go too
135. 5:04far, I will have created a problem.
136. 5:07Right. Now that we're getting closer and
137. 5:09closer and closer to where we should be
138. 5:11finished, I'm going to start using the
139. 5:13knife just for that little bit more
140. 5:16precision.
141. 5:18So I'm going to model that a little bit
142. 5:19more and
143. 5:20still reduce a little bit more of height
144. 5:23from this toe. These trims take a
145. 5:25substantial amount of time even although
146. 5:28there's nothing incredibly graphic wrong
147. 5:31with her foot. So you can see this sort
148. 5:33of yellow part here coming through and
149. 5:35that is a type of bruising.
150. 5:38Blood red stuff is seeping into the hoof
151. 5:41horn or the serums rather from the blood
152. 5:44is are seeping into the hoof horn.
153. 5:47And as they do it, the hoof horn turns
154. 5:49yellow.
155. 5:51I've got a little crack round here that
156. 5:53I'm just going to investigate.
157. 5:56Just going to take a little bit of
158. 5:57height out of there. And that's not
159. 5:59going to turn into anything, so we'll
160. 6:00leave that.
161. 6:01Now, the best thing to do with a foot
162. 6:02like this Actually, there's still a bit
163. 6:04of a ridge on the inside of her foot.
164. 6:06I've been slightly too cautious.
165. 6:09But the best thing to do with a foot
166. 6:11like this is put it on the ground and
167. 6:12see what it's looking like. So, that's
168. 6:13exactly what we're doing.
169. 6:16Still doesn't look fantastic. And I
170. 6:19think I should probably lower the heel
171. 6:21of that inner thing but just a little
172. 6:22bit to try to get the foot to set a
173. 6:24little bit more flat.
174. 6:27It's rare that you want to lower the
175. 6:28heel of a cow's foot. But like I said,
176. 6:31this cow's foot is not a standard foot.
177. 6:34Everything inside it is different to
178. 6:36usual. And that
179. 6:38that other foot, the next one,
180. 6:40is actually worse than this. So, it's
181. 6:41going to be quite interesting
182. 6:43to see if we can do anything with it.
183. 6:45Right, I don't want to go any further
184. 6:46than this.
185. 6:48I think she'll be more comfortable like
186. 6:49that.
187. 6:50We'll see. So, we saved every bit of
188. 6:52height here. We took a little bit off
189. 6:54here just to stabilize it and then we've
190. 6:55lowered this to hopefully bring the toe
191. 6:57down a little bit.
192. 7:02All right, let's see it done down again.
193. 7:03And try again.
194. 7:06And it does look substantially better.
195. 7:08Not perfect, but definitely better.
196. 7:12Look at that. Look at the view of that
197. 7:14other foot from here. Look, that shows
198. 7:16how truly twisted it is.
199. 7:18Look at that. I can put my fingers right
200. 7:20underneath her foot. Look, and those are
201. 7:22my sore fingers, so I should probably
202. 7:24not do that. But here we go.
203. 7:26All right,
204. 7:27there wasn't a lot come off that.
205. 7:32Right. Oh, that's a big old curl.
206. 7:36Doesn't look that dramatic in the air,
207. 7:37does it?
208. 7:39Right, I'm going to actually reduce this
209. 7:41massive curl straight away so that I can
210. 7:44sort of understand the height of it a
211. 7:46little bit. Look at that, look. I just
212. 7:48realized these are really overgrown but
213. 7:49you can see where the model's been,
214. 7:50look.
215. 7:52That is months and months ago and it
216. 7:54just shows that this foot is not wearing
217. 7:55properly. That model would have been up
218. 7:58here when we actually did it and it's
219. 8:00traveled all the way down this foot as
220. 8:03the foot has grown.
221. 8:05That's quite cool, isn't it?
222. 8:06It's not often you see that.
223. 8:08Right.
224. 8:09So, if I go at the actual wall with this
225. 8:11grinder, I still am being safe but I
226. 8:13know there is a lot of material to be
227. 8:16removed.
228. 8:18And now that we've finished with it,
229. 8:19look at that, look. You can see the true
230. 8:21thickness of this piece of hoof horn.
231. 8:23That is really substantial. Right. Let's
232. 8:26get
233. 8:27the
234. 8:28What's this called?
235. 8:30Uh paddle, that's what we call it, isn't
236. 8:32it, Craig? Sometimes I struggle with my
237. 8:33words.
238. 8:35So, there obviously is a lot of material
239. 8:37to remove from this inside claw. But
240. 8:39again, it can be incredibly surprising
241. 8:43how far down the pedal bone and the
242. 8:45corium inside the hoof capsule can
243. 8:46reach. So, although we know there's a
244. 8:48lot to come off, we never truly know
245. 8:50exactly how much. So, although it looks
246. 8:53like I'm really pressing the grinder in
247. 8:54hard here and moving a substantial
248. 8:57amount of hoof horn, I am still trying
249. 8:59to be very, very cautious indeed. And as
250. 9:01I try to get the foot into a much better
251. 9:03shape, I'm actually starting to struggle
252. 9:05with the grinder because I can't touch
253. 9:07each foot individually even although
254. 9:09that nozzle is doing its job spreading
255. 9:11the feet apart. So, I'm going to swap
256. 9:13over to the knife and I'll model out
257. 9:15with a knife.
258. 9:17I'll get a much better look at what I'm
259. 9:19doing. That way I can open up
260. 9:22this part as well and really focus on
261. 9:26each individual claw.
262. 9:30It's amazing how long it can take to
263. 9:31trim some cows' feet when other cows'
264. 9:33feet take less than 10 seconds
265. 9:36sometimes.
266. 9:37But they all matter just as much as each
267. 9:40other.
268. 9:46I'm just trying a bit of modeling on
269. 9:47this one as well, just to widen up. And
270. 9:49actually I think I can take a little bit
271. 9:51more from here, so I'm going to do that.
272. 9:54It is much better to be cautious and
273. 9:56revisit what you're doing a few times
274. 9:59rather than try to get the job done too
275. 10:01quickly
276. 10:02and make a mistake.
277. 10:06All right, you can see the thickness of
278. 10:07that, so we're going to adjust that a
279. 10:08little bit further out. We're going to
280. 10:09try and get the paddle in a better
281. 10:11position just to try to get half the
282. 10:13feet a little bit better.
283. 10:15I kind of ran out of words there.
284. 10:17So we're getting much closer to the
285. 10:18finish line here, but for sake of being
286. 10:21absolutely perfect and for sake of a
287. 10:23couple of millimeters,
288. 10:25I'm willing to make sure this foot isn't
289. 10:27actually perfect, but much more
290. 10:29comfortable. Ensuring that she is
291. 10:30definitely more comfortable and has no
292. 10:32chance of being lame is more important
293. 10:35than seeking perfection and not quite
294. 10:38cutting the mustard. All right, again,
295. 10:39we're going to put this foot down on the
296. 10:41ground and see how it looks there.
297. 10:43Miles better, but again, I actually
298. 10:46think I can if I lower the heel on that
299. 10:48inner claw a little bit,
300. 10:50should help the foot sit just that
301. 10:52little bit flatter. So again, I don't
302. 10:54want to try to make this cow's foot
303. 10:55perfect. I want it as close to perfect
304. 10:58as I am completely comfortable with. I
305. 11:00don't want to guess anything. And after
306. 11:02I've lowered it with the grinder a
307. 11:03little bit, I start whacking again on
308. 11:06that axial wall with my knife. Again,
309. 11:08not looking for perfection, just looking
310. 11:11to make her a bit more comfortable, but
311. 11:13leaving a bit of margin for error.
312. 11:16All right, I think we are
313. 11:18just about done with this foot. It's
314. 11:21looking so much better.
315. 11:24Yes, quite happy with this.
316. 11:27This is her before we started trimming.
317. 11:30A big gnarly turned up, tall, all
318. 11:33twisted and contorted, [music]
319. 11:35and her weight in the wrong places. And
320. 11:37this is her afterwards. Much more level,
321. 11:40much more true.
322. 11:42I can't get my fingers under her feet at
323. 11:44all now. And that's the the bad one,
324. 11:46obviously. And all of this
325. 11:48weight-bearing surface is touching the
326. 11:49floor nicely. It's not a graphic trim,
327. 11:51[clears throat] not a hugely dramatic
328. 11:54trim, not unbelievably in-depth, but to
329. 11:57this cow, this trim
330. 12:00was massively important. She's going to
331. 12:02feel more comfortable, but crucially,
332. 12:04she's [music] not going to go lame now
333. 12:05because all of the weight was on the
334. 12:07wrong parts of her feet. And
335. 12:11And now, all of the weight, hopefully,
336. 12:15is on the correct parts of the feet.
337. 12:17You're quite a good customer.
338. 12:20Look at that. Look Look at that.
339. 12:22Really, really good. So, this one looks
340. 12:24a bit thicker because of that twist and
341. 12:25everything, but you can see carefully on
342. 12:27both of these now how good
343. 12:30the weight-bearing surfaces are.
344. 12:39>> [music]
345. 12:43>> Damn it. Damn it. It's getting strange,
346. 12:44isn't it?
347. 12:45>> All right.
348. 12:46>> How's life, by the way?
349. 12:48For this cow, it's just improved, but I
350. 12:50just wanted to ask you how life is. For
351. 12:52me, I've taken on a little bit too much
352. 12:55lately, I'll be honest. So, life's
353. 12:57pretty hectic. I'm very, very thankful
354. 12:59for all of it. It's incredible. But I
355. 13:01have probably taken on a little bit too
356. 13:03much, so life's a little bit stressful
357. 13:05just now, but it is for the greater
358. 13:06good, so
359. 13:08uh yeah, I'm not mourning. I'm just
360. 13:10telling you how my life is right now.
361. 13:12It's actually the sun has been shining
362. 13:15here in southwest Scotland, which makes
363. 13:16life infinitely better. It really,
364. 13:19really does. So, um life is good,
365. 13:21but a little bit too hectic. Genuinely
366. 13:24though, how is yours? Let's start a
367. 13:26conversation in the comments. Anyway,
368. 13:28for today I am very happy with that
369. 13:30cow's trim and the other 47 that we
370. 13:32trimmed. And from me right now and the
371. 13:3450 P, it's goodbye. Catch you later.
372. 13:36Bye-bye.