WEEPING BLISTER on a COW's HOOF — Transcript

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1. 0:00this hoof is hiding an incredibly sore
2. 0:02secret you see hidden within the heel
3. 0:04bulb there is a raging infection you're
4. 0:07watching the hoof
5. 0:09GP from this angle it's plain for us all
6. 0:12to see the fluid emerging from our heel
7. 0:15bulb is a Telltale sign that there is a
8. 0:17very serious infection raging within
9. 0:21that outer claw picking up the grinder I
10. 0:23know that this may aggravate her
11. 0:25slightly working on a foot like this is
12. 0:28always going to cause a bit of
13. 0:29discomfort
14. 0:30within the hoof capsule itself the
15. 0:32tissue is hugely inflamed so even
16. 0:35touching it is going to be
17. 0:40uncomfortable I take my grinder and try
18. 0:43to balance both claws as well as I
19. 0:45possibly can aiming for 5050 weight
20. 0:48bearing in other words I want half of
21. 0:50our weight to be on our outside cloth
22. 0:52and half of it to be on the inside this
23. 0:55is how we start every routine trim and
24. 0:58yes I know this is not a routine trim
25. 1:00but it is how we start every single trim
26. 1:04then we model out this area to avoid
27. 1:06soul ulceration that hemorrhaging or
28. 1:09bruising you can see right now is the
29. 1:11start of a soul ulcer one of the most
30. 1:14common problems you find in cow's feet
31. 1:17but we're not here for that ulcer we're
32. 1:20here for that massively inflamed heel
33. 1:23and the infection that right now is
34. 1:25hidden out of sight we need to remove
35. 1:29all of the overb gardening hoorn so that
36. 1:31that infection can be allowed to be
37. 1:33healed up and cured by the cow's immune
38. 1:36system and any topical treatment we
39. 1:37choose to use at this point in the trim
40. 1:40though I have absolutely no idea What
41. 1:43Lies Beneath this
42. 1:47huorn I take my time taking small
43. 1:50slithers of huorn using my fingers to
44. 1:52feel my way around the cow's hoof trying
45. 1:55to understand what is out of sight right
46. 1:58now calling on my knowledge of the
47. 2:01hundreds of thousands of cows that had
48. 2:02trimmed
49. 2:04before I know it's inflamed I know
50. 2:07there's an infection but right now I
51. 2:09truly don't know the full extent of
52. 2:18[Music]
53. 2:26it this perople horn the ho horn you
54. 2:29find at the heel of a cow's hoof is
55. 2:31there for suspension it's there for
56. 2:34impact which is why it's soft flexible
57. 2:36and pliable but also why it's more
58. 2:39difficult for me to cut I can't slice
59. 2:42through it like the harder hoorn because
60. 2:44it flexes away from the blade of my
61. 2:47knife now we're starting to see where
62. 2:49the problem is but I still need to feel
63. 2:51my way around the cow's foot to
64. 2:54understand what's left to
65. 2:57remove now it's been dried off we can
66. 3:00see the core of the problem this is the
67. 3:02heart of the infection a heel ulcer
68. 3:05which has burst out become infected and
69. 3:08cause digital dermatitis to be allowed
70. 3:10into the hoof capsule itself so that
71. 3:13whole area is now being ravaged by
72. 3:15infection I need to remove even more
73. 3:18hoorn though the ulceration that's
74. 3:20beginning to form within the heart of
75. 3:22the modeling area still needs to be
76. 3:24deepened out if we want to make sure we
77. 3:27absolutely avoid any further ulceration
78. 3:31and therefore further pain this cow is
79. 3:34clearly going to need a block so I start
80. 3:37preparing the inner claw ready for it to
81. 3:39be
82. 3:40[Music]
83. 3:48applied I still have work to do in the
84. 3:50hoof but the glue also needs time to
85. 3:53cure I've placed a nozzle in between the
86. 3:56feet so that I can get right up in there
87. 3:57with my knife and model out that axial
88. 4:00wall as deeply as I possibly can at this
89. 4:03stage I'm not actually sure whether or
90. 4:06not there's an ulcer underneath this
91. 4:08outer
92. 4:10hemorrhaging but I'm hoping there's
93. 4:14[Music]
94. 4:27not with every swipe of the knife I'm
95. 4:30half expecting this bruising to
96. 4:32disappear to dissipate and come to
97. 4:34nothing but it just simply doesn't seem
98. 4:37to be doing that and I'm starting to
99. 4:39worry that that infection isn't her only
100. 4:42true
101. 4:50problem the problem isn't the bruised H
102. 4:53horn the problem is whatever was causing
103. 4:55it and that is what I've removed and
104. 4:59abundance of hoof horn and too much
105. 5:01weight being on that area is what caused
106. 5:03this heel ulcer and this soul ulceration
107. 5:05to form I've removed that excess huorn
108. 5:09and have transferred all of the weight
109. 5:10onto that block so that sore outer claw
110. 5:14will not materialize any further into an
111. 5:16ulcer that bruising will dissipate over
112. 5:19the next couple of weeks and the heel
113. 5:21ulcer and deritis surrounding it will be
114. 5:23cleared up by the use of that salicylic
115. 5:26acid and this cow will be healed