This BULL Picked Up Some HARWARE — Transcript

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1. 0:00This big bull was limping on his right
2. 0:02front, and as soon as I picked this up,
3. 0:04I found out why.
4. 0:06Welcome back
5. 0:07to Nate the Hoof Guy.
6. 0:10First, we trim away some of the debris
7. 0:12around it.
8. 0:16Clearing some of the debris away allows
9. 0:17me to get a better bite with my pliers
10. 0:19so I can pull it out.
11. 0:25At this point, I can see some ridges in
12. 0:27there, so I thought it might have been a
13. 0:28screw.
14. 0:31Well, it moves fairly easily. That's a
15. 0:33good sign.
16. 0:40Well, that is not a screw. That is a
17. 0:42galvanized ring shank nail.
18. 0:44These are used to hold the steel on the
19. 0:46roofs and sides of barns. They're
20. 0:48galvanized so they don't rust.
21. 0:56Well, luckily the soles on this bull's
22. 0:58hoof are pretty thick, so we're going to
23. 1:00get it trimmed up, and then we're going
24. 1:01to evaluate and see what it looks like
25. 1:03on the inside. He was favoring this
26. 1:05foot, so I know it went all the way
27. 1:06through.
28. 1:14Now, you can see where that hole is in
29. 1:16that sole. Now, a lot of times when we
30. 1:18trim and we find some a piece of metal
31. 1:19in a claw, you'll see an oxidation ring
32. 1:22all the way around that area. It'd be
33. 1:24all black. However, in this case, we
34. 1:26don't have that because that nail that
35. 1:28was in there was a galvanized nail. So,
36. 1:31no oxidation, no black ring.
37. 1:45Now, the farmer had told me that this
38. 1:46bull just started favoring this foot, so
39. 1:48I know that nail couldn't have been in
40. 1:49there too long, which means that the
41. 1:51area of separation around it is probably
42. 1:53minimal as well. So, I got to take my
43. 1:55time working slowly to try to get that
44. 1:57opened up. But, first I'm going to get a
45. 1:59block on. Bulls have very big necks,
46. 2:02right? So, when they're in the chute,
47. 2:04they they're held a little bit tighter
48. 2:05than a cow is, especially in that neck
49. 2:07area. So, I don't want to mess around
50. 2:09with taking too much time to have a bull
51. 2:11in the chute. I get that block on now.
52. 2:13I'm going to work around that block just
53. 2:14so I make sure that I've got enough time
54. 2:16for that glue to cure. I want to get him
55. 2:18out as soon as possible so he's not
56. 2:20standing in there any longer than he
57. 2:22needs to be.
58. 2:27This is the largest size block that I
59. 2:29carry, and you'll see I need all of it
60. 2:30to cover that sole.
61. 2:47Now, it's time to get to it. First thing
62. 2:49I'm going to do is thin all of the hoof
63. 2:51horn around it, trying to make that sole
64. 2:52a little more pliable so I can get my
65. 2:54hook the hook of my knife up underneath
66. 2:56that to lift that away.
67. 3:16Once again, I'm expecting the area of
68. 3:18separation underneath there to be small,
69. 3:20so I'm working in real small circles as
70. 3:22I go around it.
71. 3:48These pasture bulls have real hard feet,
72. 3:51and you can hear it as I trim this.
73. 4:12As I work around this edge, it comes
74. 4:14away quite cleanly.
75. 4:28Luckily for this guy and his thick
76. 4:30soles, there's very little disturbance
77. 4:32underneath.
78. 4:56Well, I'm really happy the way this
79. 4:57turned out considering the
80. 4:58circumstances. That was a pretty big
81. 4:59nail. Luckily his soles were thick. He
82. 5:02should have no problem getting over this
83. 5:04in no time. Now, with this wrap, I'm
84. 5:05going to put this on really loose. When
85. 5:07it comes to cows, you can put a little
86. 5:08more wrap on that if the wrap doesn't
87. 5:11fall off, you can always help it by
88. 5:12taking it off in the parlor. In this
89. 5:14case, this bull is going to be out on
90. 5:15pasture, and he's not as easy to just
91. 5:18get right up next to you. So, we put
92. 5:20that wrap on loose. I'm not tucking it
93. 5:21in or anything like that.
94. 5:23Once we get that uh block cured, we're
95. 5:25going to put him down and let him walk
96. 5:27away, and you'll see how much better
97. 5:29he's walking now, and I'm sure he's
98. 5:31thankful I intervened when I did.
99. 5:39He already notice there was ever
100. 5:40anything wrong.