WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS HEEL??? — Transcript

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1. 0:00if I told you that this hoof actually
2. 0:02looked pretty good you probably wouldn't
3. 0:04believe me unless you knew where we
4. 0:07started welcome back to Nate the hoof
5. 0:10guy so where did we start we started
6. 0:13with this oozing heel right here and
7. 0:16sure enough after we removed a little
8. 0:17bit of loose horn we found the source of
9. 0:19the problem this cow had what we call a
10. 0:22so fracture meaning that that heel bulb
11. 0:25had pulled away from that solar horn and
12. 0:28up underneath that sole now we had a
13. 0:30little bit of an ulceration actually a
14. 0:32big ulceration we had to remove a lot of
15. 0:35loose horn and wash away a lot of debris
16. 0:38if you want to see that original video
17. 0:40it was titled it was oozing before I
18. 0:43even started now that visit was about a
19. 0:46month prior to this one and at that time
20. 0:48this heel bulb was in rough shape a lot
21. 0:51of exposed corium and a lot of
22. 0:54inflammation so at the time we cleaned
23. 0:56it really thoroughly and of course yes
24. 0:58put a block in that other cloth and
25. 1:00wrapped it with salicylic acid now we're
26. 1:03back and that is why I can say that this
27. 1:05heel actually looks pretty good
28. 1:07considering where we started but let's
29. 1:09get it cleaned up and see exactly how
30. 1:11far we've
31. 1:25come now because we're only a month out
32. 1:28I know that that solar horn is not very
33. 1:30thick so I'm just slowly removing very
34. 1:32thin layer of hoof horn to expose what's
35. 1:35left now you can see she did lose her
36. 1:37block it is not ready to go without a
37. 1:39block yet so we're going to apply
38. 1:40another one and we're going to slowly
39. 1:42and carefully pair away any of that horn
40. 1:45around there make sure we don't have any
41. 1:47areas open underneath but based on the
42. 1:49way it looked I'm expecting there to be
43. 1:52some
44. 2:26this new horn growth and that heel bulb
45. 2:28can be really thin and even deceiving at
46. 2:31times so you got to be careful when
47. 2:32you're working around that all I'm
48. 2:34really trying to do here is remove a
49. 2:35very thin layer expose any loose edges
50. 2:38that I may need to remove see if there's
51. 2:40any areas of openness that I may need to
52. 2:43continue to treat to try to get this to
53. 2:45heal you can see I've got a little bit
54. 2:47of a loose Edge on the inside I'm going
55. 2:48to pair that away and then I'm going to
56. 2:50work around that lesion area just to
57. 2:52make sure I don't have any debris
58. 2:54trapped inside of there
59. 3:16now you can probably already see there
60. 3:18are a couple of areas here that are
61. 3:20still open so this trim came at just the
62. 3:23right time now you might be asking
63. 3:25yourself four weeks with a hoof like
64. 3:27this why didn't you check it earlier
65. 3:29well this particular Farm I go to once a
66. 3:32month so I didn't have an opportunity
67. 3:34really to to check up on this in between
68. 3:37there so this trim came at just the
69. 3:39right time we're able to treat this now
70. 3:41and give her one more salicylic acid
71. 3:44wrap I got to say though she made great
72. 3:47progress all on her own probably would
73. 3:49have helped a little bit if I got there
74. 3:50a little bit sooner been able to treat
75. 3:52this again but even still this is
76. 3:54healing quite nicely
77. 4:07here you can get a good view of that
78. 4:08heel bulb you can see the two pockets
79. 4:11that are still open if we do a little
80. 4:13comparison here you can see what it
81. 4:15looked like four weeks ago and on the
82. 4:17right what it looks like now but we're
83. 4:20not done yet we've got to thoroughly
84. 4:21clean this and one more salicylic acid
85. 4:24wrap should do it
86. 4:30I got to be honest when I first saw that
87. 4:32heel even I was surprised at the
88. 4:35progress it had made because sometimes
89. 4:37you really never know with that much
90. 4:39inflammation as always guys thanks for
91. 4:41watching and we will see you all on the
92. 4:45next one