we FAILED with this cow's HORRENDOUS hoof!

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video we are visiting a farm to trim 50 sexy cows Hol Steam, let it run when I. I see you dance and the moment comes when I fall and time goes slow. I fall for you. You'll be joining us on a sunny Friday morning here in the south west of Scotland and today we'll be visiting this routine farm where we normally clip around 60 Castle so so soon. As we arrive at this Farm, it is urgent to prepare as quickly as possible.

You can see that on this Farm they don't really have a race set up, so we ended up using the Hall as the race itself, which brings its own problem. because when it comes milking time we have to be out of the way, there are usually about 60 cows to trim on this farm, so it's a lot of work in a very short time, fortunately for us, although there is a lot of work on cow here are fantastic, so today we're going to take a look at some of the fantastic feats and some of these not so fantastic, so this is our setup here, it's one of the few farms where we bring quite a few doors that connect them and Make a mini run along with our guillotine gate and it actually works fantastically well, but that being said, the farmer also has to install some gates of his own to make sure the cattle don't stick their heads in places they shouldn't.

So as this C comes racing in and starts making a mess of our beautiful, shiny setup, I'm thinking I should probably put on some gloves today. We have our necks helping us load the cattle, which really helps speed things up. See what I mean. This is a cow that needs a little routine trimming because this boot is a little bigger than this boot and that's not good, but in a few seconds it will be perfect. you've gone right to my head take the pills and go to bed but I'm still hooked that you're sacred somehow I don't know God but I still have faith and he will manifest himself somehow when I'm next to you trim cows with legs like this one is really fantastic, you just put your head down and you're in the zone and you keep cutting, you can get through a lot of cows in a very short time and do some good for the world.

I asked your father. for your head, but it didn't matter what he said, I thought of you in an i Dre. I don't do it with three of us cutting in unison. The cows are only in the crowding for about 45 seconds. Place of stay. Stay until you graduate every day. Who are we when we cut like this? The repetitiveness is quite reassuring. It takes me back and reminds me of past memories. My stepfather was a helmet drummer for 27 years and I often think about what he would think of helmets. GP and this incredible thing that has been created from nothing.

My father was a farmer who died at 49 and I wonder what he would think of what we are doing these days. Hoof trimming is good for the soul. The memories here we feel our joys shed our tears when In the back you are seeing the very definition of Maintenance Hoof Trimming, where all we are doing is a slight balancing of both claws, shaping and making sure there are no problems or cracks rearing their ugly heads, this is the type of trim. which

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trimmers around the world love because it's easy, valuable for the cow and a real pleasure to do all day long.

We don't really talk to each other much, we're very in tune with what we're doing. and concentrate on the job at hand, we don't really have time to chat, which is why we need all those coffees, that being said, although we always help each other by getting blocks or bandages to make the job as easy as possible. as possible, this is tonac crosis, an infection inside the B B inside the hoof capsule of this cow, which is effectively killing the bone itself and basically eating away at the foot, they are terribly difficult to fix and as you can see , it's pretty horrible to see.

Also these are very open open lesions, if you look at the tip of the trailer you can already see a bit of Claret poking out, they hurt terribly for cattle, as you can see they are absolutely full of Gunk and just G all that. Mud that comes out because this cavity inside the foot is so big that we can't actually do anything like this foot as we would like to wash all that dirt off but it will probably still come out, it's absolutely full of but unfortunately if we cut a lot more off we'll have a lots of claret, right?

We'll just wash it for a car like this. This is a long term problem, the bone inside the feet becomes infected and we cannot possibly reach it just by trimming it. This is a job for a veterinarian if she were ever really pursued in an effort to completely cure her, as our job is to make her more comfortable and make this boot more functional for her, which is exactly what we have done. In fact, yes, the vast majority of these cattle are just receiving maintenance hoof trimmings, the basics are being done, but every once in a while we come across a cow like this that needs a lot of help, farmers like the one who grows this farm they do everything they need. possible to keep their cows as comfortable as possible and if you look at the ground that this cow walks on, it's actually made of rubber to try to soften the blow of the concrete or from time to time these things happen and we're there to choose.

The next cow that will enter our group is this one and she has been treated for about 4 weeks AG. Go with us at that time, you had a big problem here in zone two, over the white line, you can see that it is compacted with manure and manure and in fact, there is still some salicylic acid from where they wrapped it and the TP block It is still held firmly in place by the grip of the Pro helmet. I need to scrape off all the dirt and manure and wash it as best I can to see what the problem is.

I don't want to remove anything that isn't absolutely necessary, but I need to see it, so this is a helmet that has had a very long term problem. These orange blocks are only used for problems that will last for months. a while and luckily it's still firmly in place thanks to that pretty green glue. This is a white line defect problem. A problem that cows contract from slipping or hitting hard concrete surfaces or pieces of metal or even just from twisting and turning on the concrete at times. and this is a particularly bad case, you can see that everything is under a run, see, this lock being activated long term also helps keep the foot out of the manure, so it works as pain relief but also helps dry the foot. looks great, but this actually travels right to the front here, get on your knees for this one, you can see there's a P coming out of this aspect, just make an effort to peel this back as smoothly as we can, which en It is not easy, since I have just explained that the hoof is drying out, which makes it very, very hard.

Ho horn, this is really elusive. You can see the little bit of red coming out at the base of this issue. I have not done it. I really went too far. I needed to get rid of everything that covered up that problem. This Hoorn is incredibly difficult, which is why I'm fighting. You can actually see the little bits of clar coming out really well, but I'm not too worried about that because This has clearly been an incredibly sore foot at some point, although this is very delicate, it's very hard on my knife. In fact, I'm going to use the grinder to get it right.

This is a risky decision, although the ho horn is incredibly hard, it is also hard. incredibly thin there, I'm counting on the kvk to hold her steady so she can't kick or move too much, but I'm also counting on my hands. The delicacy here is absolutely crucial at this point that we have thinned it with the we should be a grinder to remove the small remains with the knife more easily, you can see it following up to its foot, but in reality this looks very, very, very, very Well, this is one that will definitely be a success story in the next. few weeks, which probably gives them more reasons to subscribe, you wouldn't believe how many people watch these videos who aren't actually subscribed to the channel, for example, they change it, oh this looks good, they can't get in, they can hear my Frustration .

I'm trying to get the knife to slide to the dorsal wall of his foot, but the crush paddle gets in the way. Work upside down as if this were never ideal. Understood. I'm actually very, very happy with this. It looks. Terrible, but it's real progress. All I'm going to do now is tidy up around these heels just to make sure that dirt, grime, and bacteria don't get trapped in there, which you can clearly see happening. This block has been up for 6 weeks, so the stubs are starting to erode a little, letting the mck and manure get in there, but the block is still firmly in place, so we'll leave it exactly where it is, like this which, off camera, Craig just told me when this cow came in.

I didn't feel it go in when she came in, he's rocking on her foot and that's really going to cause problems with her deep flexor tendency, so we need to correct that too, because Craig has alerted me to the fact that she's is swinging. Back on this foot we need to correct that that's why I'm taking the grinder here to remove part of this orange tuft so it's completely flat and we're applying this second orange tuft but we're applying it further back and building the Lift up the heel using glue which I will then grind with the grinder to reshape it in an effort to ensure this block stays in position.

It's very difficult to get guys like this to walk properly again, so it will be a real test for us. To see how he walks afterwards, double height blocks are never great, but in this case he needs it right, we'll get this wrap into position and once Kevin has finished doing a perfectly good job, we'll see how he walks. I'm not totally sure if you followed all that, but basically, when she was walking, she was walking on the back of this block, the heel, and swinging back, so imagine you walk on the heel of your shoe with your con finger in the air, you'd hurt your ankle with every step and that's exactly what this cow was doing.

Her toe was in the air and her heel was taking the brunt of it as she twisted her ankle. I hope you take it well. She now takes flat steps, but it's actually the opposite. Her toe is still in the air. She's using the block and landing on it, but she's not landing as flat as I would have liked. However, the block is doing her job. Raising the affected claw. it lifts off the ground and we will have to revisit this cow in 2 weeks to remove those blocks while hopefully the leg has healed.