HUGE, OVERGROWN & CURLY COWS HOOF

In today's video we deal with some

overgrown

paws on this beautiful farm in the south west of Scotland, which is home to these gorgeous black Aberdeen Angus

cows

that need a bit of a pedicure. We also deal with this big Bill's legs which are suffering from serious cracking problems this is the hoop GP, go slow I'm falling for you this is the stunningly beautiful line of the South West Scotland countryside. We were near the Gallery shopping centre, at the very tip of the Scottish mainland, tending some beautiful

cows

on the outskirts of the village of Dramour, join us as we travel north along this beautiful and rugged coastal road.

In many ways the sea is like working in farming here in the south west of Scotland. It's stunningly beautiful, absolutely incredible. We are surrounded by it and it is a constant in our lives, but it is completely at the mercy of Mother Nature, the earth. Here is what produces the forage or food for the haulers that we trim and work with every day and it is completely at the mercy of Mother Nature. I know you are strong ER and not the rainbow, today we have three passengers. There's Stronger Catboy Kevin, okay, there's Craigie Boy. I'll try to get him to stop doing that and just go with The Cow and yes, for the eagle-eyed and those with fond memories, she is named after her. big sister and she has an orange block on her foot the white line problem is a long story anyway let's go to the farm and see what awaits us here you just want to see the Seether in the rainbow I know you'll get up Again, this one It's Grenin Farm, it's located a few miles east of the small village of Glen Lewis where I used to live in Merlin, far from civilization but close enough at the same time for me, this is the dream.

It's a beautiful farm in an amazing To be honest, driving in places like this is entertaining for me because normally it's just a straight run so when it's like that it's quite difficult which is good, it doesn't really take us much time. prepare and get into position. and luckily the weather gods have been very kind today and we're not going to get wet today we've got a pickaxe and two Aberdeen Angus cows to do the big bully is first and just look how eager he is to get into the crowd come on. That's it, that's it, as soon as we get Amy Boolean, we're desperate to get them done as quickly as possible, so we're going to tie their feet together so they can't kick or anything.

You'd be surprised how strong it is. little can be, so we're going to check all of his feet, but his right front has a little problem, but if you come here and look, it's back left, I mean, that's pretty perfect, a little bit of overgrowth here , but that's all bills like this. They are incredibly important to the farmer who owns this farm, they are his livelihood, if they cannot perform properly the cows will have no calves and he will literally have no produce to sell, so make sure their legs are in top condition. possible, is absolutely crucial to a successful year.

Sometimes Bill's ligaments and feet are so tight and strong that they don't reach the cups, which keeps them very firm, but sometimes we just have to do the old thing. very low on the hands and knees oh look at this creaking making me a little worried this will delaminate these cracks can produce a lot of pressure on the lamb and the Aquarius which is the part that connects the inside of the foot to the outside of the the foot as you can see if we get closer it is getting compacted with dirt and Mock and that will create pressure on this back foot whether it shows big signs of lameness or not it is a totally different killer fish we need to remove it because if not We know, the only thing that's going to happen is that the pressure will increase and you'll end up with an abscess and then we'll have Bill with extreme pain in the back of his right foot.

I'm not sure if you can hear the wind. today, but it's very, very windy where we are, so this is me, thinning the edges, if I stopped exactly where we are, those edges would continue to crack and continue causing that weird problem up to here, so let's Thin this entire portion because it's very difficult with the grinder and we're going to put a block here. He's not lame, but we don't want him to stay lame. This bill was brought in because he is lame in his right front foot, no. this rear right foot, so if this is the helmet that doesn't have the problem, I'm not looking forward to the one that has the problem.

I think people think I'm talking but they deliberately try to hide the limp but even when it's mild so they only limp when it's unbearable and you can't see them they're still stiff they just slide down we need this to be over the heel because that is where you will land and put most of your weight. allow us to leave this part empty because we don't really need this part to hold, we're going to thin this out with the grinder and then we're going to make sure that we have all that dirt as far away from your foot as possible. but as much as we need to get rid of these fragments of his foreignness that will capture that dirt that is not black, that is foreign or something, that is sick, it is just compacted garbage, no, it is unlikely that he probably hit it with something and a Hiller got hurt on the inside and it's just that this thing doesn't flex so if he was here and he got hurt he would come out the bottom because this thing flexes really well.

I wasn't sure if I was in another world, but that's the most likely cause. It's a painfully slow process, but we need to open this crack completely so it can't become compacted with dirt and manure. If we leave it exactly like that, we really won't have accomplished anything because the earth is still there and anything new. Touching fresh Dart Room manure will only increase compaction. Thank you. I really don't want to go too far and end up drawing blood. That wouldn't be good, but we're getting into very soft tissue now, so I think we'll do it.

I'll stop and cover it with iodine just to seal it all in, Stella, but that should fix it, hopefully, so there could be two or three problems here. This could definitely be a problem but it probably isn't, but this is the most likely cause. Look how. It's much higher than here, but at the same time it shouldn't be so short, so something happened there. When it comes to a Bill

hoof

versus a cow wave, the process is virtually identical to what we're looking at. to transfer the weight around the hull to where we want it to be, but we always keep in mind that these Toros are extremely heavy creatures, so one wrong move and we could end up doing more harm than good, get a plastic one please.

As soon as I started working on that inner claw, the one that's furthest away, when we looked at it, I realized it was hollow from the sound the grinder made, which means there's a double soul underneath what we can see. right now, so I just asked Kevin for a block so we could hear right away that the inside of the Claw is Hollow in some way. I actually don't think it's a

huge

cavity there, but it's definitely Hollow because you can't hear it. It's really hard to explain, but kind. of hearing a resonance from the

hoof

horn, so we're putting this block on because we want the beak to come out of the crush as quickly as we can and this will give it more time to dry while I'm trimming it, otherwise I would have to. cut it out and then stand and put weight on the lock to dry it, this glue takes about 15 or 20 seconds to start to harden and harden so you can then release it and continue with your work, here we go, that was definitely it so this will also be a white lighting issue and this could have happened at exactly the same time as that back foot so it's definitely the result of an injury but obviously we can't see what that injury is well we could but we're making it up well this happened a while ago, oh maybe not as long ago as about six months ago, I just talked to Ian and said this could have happened about six months ago because all this foreign grows up to six or six months. seven millimeters a month, so you can look down and see how much time actually passed because this problem was up here.

Trimming this wall horn can be very, very dangerous, it's only about five or six millimeters thick and if we go too far, we're going straight to the lamb and the Aquarium, the part that actually attaches the hoof capsule to the inside of the hoof. hoof of this big Bill, we do that and we fail at our job, oh yeah, so Ian said some days this Bill is boring and other days he's fine, and what's going on? It is a day that he walks a lot because he feels good and that is why the inside of his foot is swelling and this is cracking, these cracks and his problems are pushing against that inflammation because he had been walking and it hurt, so the next day this. sitting on your feet on your butt, sorry not on your feet, the swelling is probably going down so you feel good again so you get up and walk again and the cycle continues but hopefully doing this should prevent let all that happen a little bit. solve this, but not much, this type of problem in banknotes or even in cows is 100 natural.

They are behaving exactly as they would have done hundreds of thousands of years ago when they first originated in continental Europe. These cracks can be caused by swelling and bruising as we talked about before or they could be known as sand cracks, bones all trapped there, which basically happens when the hoof wall dries out excessively and starts to crack like the bedding. of a river in the middle of summer. The problem is that the hole has been a place for stones to get trapped and cause more problems than necessary. You see a beak and a cow has hooves designed to deal with stones.

We're supposed to walk on them and darken the grass. and all kinds I need to eliminate these cracks but I also need to make sure that this bill has enough hoof left to walk comfortably, so I need to be very picky and precise with what I take off and what I leave on. I need to leave as much surface area as possible. possible area at the base of these big guys who have similar problems on this foot but obviously nothing like extreme on the other and these are also coming to nothing now we could remove this but we have to leave as much height as we can around the edge of the hoof because If we don't you won't have anything to walk on and that would really be a problem and with that this pool is finished and he's obviously had enough because he decided to sit on the accident, are you good at running right when you run out of shot?

Craig is standing in a pretty confident position that just asks for it, yeah, Bill doesn't want to move, he's nervous, obviously using a stack can look bad sometimes, but it's really just an extension of our arms. By hitting them with the stick, we gently guide them forward. It's not always obvious to the cows where they need to go and it's our job to direct them now that they're in the middle of the crowding. The problem is quite obvious. The hoof is there. There is a perfect hoof. there somewhere and we have to discover it, basically unravel it, oh, these cows, as we showed you earlier, they live in natural landscapes, the soft Merlin and their legs don't wear out as quickly as they would if they had been on concrete, that's what which ultimately leads to situations. like this one, where there is excessive growth and that excessive growth causes an overload of that digit, which in turn causes problems, so an intervention like this is absolutely essential.

Thank you, thank you, you may have a problem here with overloading or carrying too much weight on one of the toes leading to soul ulceration, basically a fancy word for the blisters on the feet of the souls of these cows. Avoiding this problem is the main focus of routine cattle hoof trimming. Putting cows like this when they are in the wild, they usually take care of their legs pretty well. without any intervention from us, but every once in a while, just like this little lady right now, we need to intervene because they're called sand cracks and they're basically the growth of ear buds and that's right, they curl up if you're ever a kid. and you have a piece of paper, you wrap it around a pencil and you pull it really hard, it turns into a coral and that's exactly what's happening.

Here one side of the hoof horn is tighter than the other because of these cracks, if that does any Okay, if we push this up, you can see that the soles of the feet are flat and level or slightly beveled here actually , but we flattened the level there, but if we get to the front of the hoof horn you'll see that the growth actually curves up like this. because of the delay, this is a bruise, I might have a bit of an ulcer here, that boring or just uncomfortable and they should have gone back to the field, right?

Yes, I need to understand how this ulcer is affecting the life of the cow and me. I need to understand where it will be for recovery because it will affect whether or not I use a block. I havedecided this too so that these cows would live a really natural lifestyle on soft ground, which made me think that maybe we would. We don't need a block here because we've eliminated the problem, namely the extra height, but it may still be touching the ground, so we'll put a block here just to make sure this cures properly while Kevin does it. that and that's a lot of Carly overgrowth right let's get to work thanks foreigner you'd think you could do it with just some hammer pliers we know that hoof is big and we know the capabilities of the grinder so why not simply?

Complete this cut in the shortest time possible by eating a large amount of food very quickly. After all, the grinder has the necessary capabilities. It's not that simple. I am afraid that when a cow's hoof becomes deformed and overgrows, we do not know what the internal anatomy of this hoof is like, so we must be very careful not to go too far. Your eyes do not deceive. I've switched to this front left foot without finishing the back right foot and that's because Kevin is currently hitting a block and I'm giving him as much chance as possible to heal by trimming these two front feet, which I know he's not.

It doesn't need much work before you get back to that problematic rear right foot, to be completely honest, with these front feet it's more of an overhaul than a trim. She is taking care of her feet perfectly well, as she should when she is in this kind of wild situation. situation, it's just the ones in the back that we have to order, it's exactly the same on the units on this side, those runs would push our toe up and our heel down, so she just walked, yeah, walking with the wrong part of his foot, yeah, yeah, know thyself.

If you were to approach the way you saw your uncles, it would be the job of a hoof trimmer, but it doesn't start and end with cutting the cows' feet, it's as much about educating the people who work with these cows on how we can take better care of them and therefore what problems are appearing. so we can do things to prevent those problems from happening, none of these problems have any signs of digital dermatitis, but they are open to the elements, which is why we sort them into iodine to dehydrate that area and protect foreign new growth under I.

I think that I can get more out of these front legs and that's what I want to do to make this cut last as long as possible. They don't want to get iodine on my face or eyes, though to be fair, while our third and final customer waits patiently. we just take the grinder to this block to make sure the angle of the base is correct and that she doesn't walk awkwardly on it and she is ready to go to the prom and with that we are on our third and final client. From this visit, as we can all clearly see, she's a little

overgrown

, but she's not showing any signs of lameness, which doesn't mean we're not about to find something strange lurking under that strange left front foot, but there it is. my hand and it should be this length, so yeah, little by little, piece by piece, slice by slice, little by little we're discovering that this guy's hoof looks pretty good underneath all that overgrowth, this It's a

huge

ly satisfying job and when the cow's legs start like that one did it and it ended up the way it's going, it really is the peak of satisfaction, a growth between our feet, that's why your foot grew too big, it's not bad and with that we move on to our last fifth of the day where almost immediately we found an unexpected problem you see, this guy is not stupid, I'm just going to show you that you always have to check all four feet because you never know what is hiding under This is what is known as a double horn undercut truss rod or a delaminated truss rod, it is basically when a layer of clip horn completely detaches from the new one that forms underneath.

It can happen for a variety of reasons and it is not always known what the cause was. In this case, it is an old episode of limnus that is not affecting her now, but certainly. We would have if we hadn't removed that overhead, a bonus that discovered that functionally this helmet looks pretty good, however the functionality doesn't always breathe. Beauty, sometimes we can get caught up in the search for the perfect cut, searching for the perfect one. helmet when really the only thing that matters is that the cow comes out of this Crush feeling more comfortable than when she came in, we'll leave it at that, this looks terrible, I mean it doesn't really look good, but the only thing that matters is functionality.

I had to park in a bit of an awkward position to get into the truck, people are wondering why there are some bumps and Craig's truck. I eat the old lady today has been a long and exhausting day, but very good, all we have left to do is try. get out without scratching the truck, clean up the accident and return home, which is what we are about to do and which brings us to the end of this video via GP. Hopefully those two carries on the bills are much more comfortable than they were. about half an hour ago, if you haven't subscribed yet, make sure you do because you'll get updates on cows and bills like the ones in these videos.

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