THAT LOOKS SORE ... FIXING COWS FEET AT 3am

good morning hello welcome to the GP it's a quarter to three in the morning right now I'm back from vacation on a course in Greece and I'm working alone, he's not a creepy guy for me so let's see how this day is different from when he's with me, but First I need to maneuver to work, which is practically through a hurricane. It was summer here in Scotland yesterday, which means winter has returned today. I guess we never will, and by sheer witchcraft, falling in love is all set. I'm ready to Come on, it

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like we have a lot this morning I also say he keeps saying we like Craig is here, who's the lawyer, I mean Craig's not here, let's go see how many we have and load up, it's very hot this morning. and it's actually stopped raining so it could be a nice morning, you get amazing, you have amazing sunrises here, sometimes a lot, yeah a lot, it

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like around 43 44 45 somewhere out there, let's start off right, so The loading went well, but it seems I already made a serious error in judgement, ah, problem solved, no, I'm desperate to get in.

It really is always a relief to be the first and start cutting. I trim this farm every two weeks and have done so for about seven or eight years, so the

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here are. pretty good now and I don't really expect to see anything incredibly exciting, but if I do I'll show you that clipping at this time of the morning is really amazing, you're away from the rest of humanity in your own little world and, in fact, despite From all the noise and banging around you, it's actually very peaceful. I used to absolutely hate getting up at this time of the morning and now I really look forward to it being a good time to reflect and get on with work. in your hand, of course, I'm going to leave you somewhere where you can see and touch it, so here's a cow that has an old wound, it's a white line problem, it seems like it was fixed quite a while ago, but this feels a little raw. and open it up, so let's see if it's cured or not, the last time I turned this over, you can see that everything has been open and it's still very soft, so let's trim this and this is where the problem could still be.

This is the type of problem that has been pretty bad the first time we saw her and she is on the road to recovery but the key to getting her to a full recovery is to revisit her and this farm has reintroduced her and everything I have What I had to do is remove this alfalfa here, apply a new block and I'm pretty sure this will completely cure in about two weeks and Bobby Bone actually does two different types of blocks and you guys may not have noticed the difference. an Excel block that is a little larger and has a harder plastic composition than that.

This is the normal one, it is flexible and wears out a little faster than the other one because it will only take two or three weeks to fix it. I don't want This stays forever, that's why I'm using the normal one this time. By the way, it's amazing how quickly these glues set. Here's one thing I still get: a lot of people ask me what gp means and what hoof gp means. general practitioner but that's not why I use it my name graeme parker it's my initials so a lot of you look at me saying I knew that and a lot of you say ah that makes sense so do it so it's about four or five Right now, oh, unfortunately there is no sun rising, but the moon is still out, not a bad beauty, start your morning, are you back at work this morning?

I am very clear that many things have sent me to see the horizon in the distance. two for a penny, but they've all gone out the window of this car and when I feel the wind on my face, I've clipped just under 30

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, it's just after six o'clock and it's turned into an incredible morning. but as predicted it has been a boring day, which is ideal for me and these cars, there have been a couple of small problems but nothing major, and I see how beautiful the morning is. Now it feels good to be alive. I'm definitely a lot slower today without Craig being here, but if someone tells Craig that I will literally deny all knowledge, I'll just get the last

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here to start the race, hey, come on girls, come on, come on, come on, come on , come on, one, it's getting better. and better, what do I have left two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, to be easier, one and squeeze, let's do the Dutch method for the millionth time, so make sure the dorsal wall of this one is 75 millimeters long, make sure they match and if you push them up together in the front, make sure the height between the two is level, which is not because the heel of this one is too high, look, so we're going to correct so that the height is now level between the two and then shape the outer claw quite wide to take pressure off the pedal bone and shape the inner claw narrowly to make sure there are no problems there and to open up the web space, so that was step one, step two and step three, now on to step four. for any loose or cracked horns around the heels or anywhere else you may have overlooked no, no, no, no, all good, step number five, check for any problems and take the pressure or weight off of that problem area, there are no problems in this one, so there you go. and this crack here, by the way, is just superficial, you don't want to remove any of that because that's where all the weight-bearing surfaces are here, which is the strongest part of the cow's feed, so if you reduce the thickness, reduces have weight bearing capabilities, so this fit is made and this boot is made exactly the same way, so we're going to make sure that the foot is 75 in length.

Here match the height model, the side claw model, the inside, get rid of all this horn and then check for problems even though these two hind legs look so different, it is really essential to get the best possible result that we follow a list of instructions or steps and that applies to any method of drumming with the hoofs, not just the Dutch style. Having a protocol or a fixed list of steps may seem really primitive and amateurish, but it is absolutely key to ensuring that we don't miss any essential part of the method we choose to follow.

Virtually all recognized methods address the balance of the cow's leg. First of all, and after achieving this, we address the problem and address the issue of relieving the problem area of ​​weight, so this is just dirt, it's not shit to lose the horn, so now that we're done, we stay at four. I'll deal with any problem and here she has what's called a tyloma, so it's basically a growth under her

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and that's going to adhere to the size of these hoof walls and her every time she steps, so let's model this right away. to give it more room, oh, so they were two legs that looked completely different to begin with, but they were both trimmed exactly the same way, so they're like seven thirty and this is, I think, the fourth cow we're on the last fruit, it's definitely been a lot slower, so I actually did that foot exactly the same way as the back feet, but I did the steps in a different way and that's because you don't want to keep picking up and putting the pinwheel away, like that that once I took it out.

I tried to do all the work for the grinder. Put it away, then finish it off with a knife and that's the motherboard and we're done traveling at least for the day to do some paperwork and print. This is a good day, yes, I need to start rebuilding life, the paths that open and I can't feel the sun on my skin from the inside today to see the horizon in the fart. The excuses were two for a penny, but We all went out the window of this car and when I feel the wind on my face everything is fine today