Trim & Prevent LONG FRONT FEET | TheHoofGP — Transcript

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1. 0:00Today I'm going to look at crisscrossing
2. 0:02front feet. Why are they criss-crossing?
3. 0:04If you've got loads of cows in your herd
4. 0:05that have got like curly crisscross and
5. 0:08long front feet, then what's causing it?
6. 0:10How do you fix it? And how do you go
7. 0:12about trimming it? Well, it's pretty
8. 0:14easy. Watch the video and find out. And
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12. 0:37Okay, so here's cow 226,
13. 0:40our victim for the day. As you can see
14. 0:42here, her front feet are clearly
15. 0:43overgrown. They're not totally
16. 0:45ridiculously overgrown, but they're
17. 0:46definitely needing attention. As she
18. 0:49walks there, you can see the angle of
19. 0:50her foot to the ankle is extremely poor
20. 0:53which puts excess pressure on the deep
21. 0:55flexor tendon which can cause all sorts
22. 0:58of problems. Um here you can see they
23. 1:00are actually crossing over which causes
24. 1:02that horrible creaky here sometimes in
25. 1:04cows and obviously the poor weight
26. 1:06distribution can lead to ulceration and
27. 1:08increased likelihood of white line
28. 1:09problems because there's greater forces
29. 1:12being put through them when they're
30. 1:14turning and twisting.
31. 1:15So now we've got our foot up. You can
32. 1:17see there's a pretty substantial
33. 1:18overgrowth, especially on this boot
34. 1:20here. Um, it's curling in, but it's only
35. 1:22curling because of the length. It's not
36. 1:24twisting like quartz through claw. So,
37. 1:26cork shoe claw would twist like this.
38. 1:28The actual peel bone inside. Um, so
39. 1:31we're just going to [music] start with a
40. 1:32routine trim and then see if there's any
41. 1:34problems. So, when you routine trim
42. 1:36these, you might think, oh, it's a long
43. 1:37foot. It's a long foot. We need to be
44. 1:40careful because we don't can't take it
45. 1:41back as far, but it is just the same
46. 1:43same measurements. So 75 mm down this
47. 1:45wall here which is the dorsal wall 7
48. 1:49between 5 and 7 mm on the end of the toe
49. 1:52for both and a good model out.
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54. 2:26Heat. Heat.
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58. 2:47Heat up here.
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61. 3:10Heat up here.
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66. 3:36Heat
67. 3:38[music] up
68. 3:40here.
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70. 3:52Heat
71. 4:03[music] up
72. 4:05here.
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79. 4:47So, we've taken the majority off. Um, I
80. 4:49have skimmed across this heel, but only
81. 4:51to make sure that there was nothing um,
82. 4:53hiding underneath. I could take that
83. 4:55farther back if I wanted to, but I'm not
84. 4:56going to because I want more weight to
85. 4:58be on this this heel here rather than
86. 5:01the usual dominant claw. So, we'll just
87. 5:03check the length.
88. 5:06Yeah, it's spot on. About 5 mil. Yep.
89. 5:11And I've [music] modeled it initially
90. 5:12with the grinder, but we're just going
91. 5:14to finish off with the knife now.
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93. 5:23There's no there's no excess around the
94. 5:26heel. So, yeah, that's us pretty much
95. 5:28done. This here [music] is called pith.
96. 5:30And [snorts] uh it's basically where the
97. 5:32horn is shedding away from the sole cuz
98. 5:34it's fairly dry where these cows are.
99. 5:36And naturally in the wild, the cow's
100. 5:39soul would
101. 5:41stop the [music] cow's soul would shed
102. 5:42away. Um so that's basically what's
103. 5:44happening here. And really, you could
104. 5:46take it down past the bit here, but
105. 5:48we're not going to cuz I want more
106. 5:50height on that. Okay, so here's cow 226,
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108. 5:53fresh from her pedicura. Not that she
109. 5:55wanted it, I don't think. As you can see
110. 5:58straight away, her feet are much more
111. 6:00natural [music] looking. Um, they've
112. 6:02returned perfectly to where they should
113. 6:05be, [music] the right proportions. Um,
114. 6:07hopefully you'll see that the foot is a
115. 6:10much much better angle compared to what
116. 6:12it was before. It's far more acute. So
117. 6:14the the pressure is [music] going
118. 6:15straight down through her foot as it
119. 6:17should have been, relieving that
120. 6:18pressure off the deep [music] flexor
121. 6:20tendon and hopefully alleviating her of
122. 6:22any sort of problems she might have got
123. 6:25from ulceration and reducing the risk of
124. 6:27white line [music] problems. Anyway,
125. 6:30happy cow, happy me.
126. 6:35So we've trimmed them up. We know what
127. 6:37the problem is and [music] we know how
128. 6:39to fix it. But where does the problem
129. 6:41come from and why does it happen to
130. 6:44cows? How can you prevent it? Here is
131. 6:46exactly what we're talking about. So
132. 6:48these cows are obviously being fed TMR
133. 6:50and there's no um bucket bin basin
134. 6:54trough for the sus to sit in. So they're
135. 6:57reaching and you can see here for
136. 7:00instance this cow's reached a good sort
137. 7:02of maybe just over a meter to where
138. 7:05she's wanting to eat. So, she's spplay
139. 7:07on her front feet and pushing pushing
140. 7:09pushing as hard as she can [music] to
141. 7:11try and reach the TMR that she's after.
142. 7:14And this pushing little joke, this
143. 7:17pushing causes excess growth on the toe,
144. 7:20but it also causes excess wear on the
145. 7:22heel because they're splaying their feet
146. 7:24out like this. So, they're pushing like
147. 7:25that. So, the obvious solution is push
148. 7:28the silage in more. The more you push
149. 7:30your silage in, the less they're going
150. 7:32to be fighting for it, the less they're
151. 7:33going to be splitting those front
152. 7:34[music] feet, and the less growth you're
153. 7:36going to see on those toes. Like I said
154. 7:38earlier,
155. 7:40it doesn't always involve lameness. It
156. 7:41looks [music] unsightly. When when you
157. 7:43hear creeks, a lot of the time that's
158. 7:45what's causing it, but it can definitely
159. 7:47lead to lameness because of the uneven
160. 7:50weight distribution between the two
161. 7:52claws. you're going to get [music]
162. 7:53ulcers, um, white line cracks because
163. 7:56the feet are now more susceptible to
164. 7:58twists and turns because of the uneven
165. 8:00weight distribution. So, do yourself a
166. 8:02favor, either get troughs, which are a
167. 8:04bugger to clean out, or push your silage
168. 8:06in as regularly as you can. [snorts]
169. 8:10Cheers.