RUPERT, Idaho — Flakes and shavings from a cow’s hoof fly through the air and ping off Drew Peterson’s protective plastic face shield while he gives a bovine pedicure. Guiding an electric grinder, he ...
Cows have cloven hooves (i.e. hooves split into two toes) and toenails. In nature, cows wear down their toenails naturally by walking. Unfortunately, many cows today don’t do much walking around.
Flakes and shavings from a cow’s hoof fly through the air and ping off Max Boden’s protective glasses while he gives a bovine pedicure. Guiding an electric grinder, he trims a Jersey cow’s hooves to ...
In one corner of the internet, professional trimmers grind and buff away at cow hooves to the delight of millions of spellbound social media users. By Emmett Lindner There are many paths to internet ...
Even though the internet has created many problems, it’s also given us some great gifts. And one of those gifts is oddly satisfying videos. Whether it’s ASMR themes, cyst-popping appointments or ...
Farms showed more than 2,500 cows at the World Dairy Expo in Madison. Cow clippers, also known as fitters, spend hours preparing the cows for showing. Fitters use razors, hair dryers, hoof polish, ...
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Following is a transcript of the video. - My name is Nate Ranallo, and I am a hoof trimmer. I'm going to show you how I remove rocks and screws from cows' feet. I trim primarily dairy cows. On a ...
Farmers are shown how to trim the hooves of their cows at Red Hill in Limuru in 2016. [File, Standard] Hoof trimming is key in the prevention of lameness in animals such as cattle, sheep, goats, pigs ...
It is easily an ignored part of dairy cow management. Yet, hoof trimming determines about 20 per cent of production levels. This is critical at a time when the dairy sector in Kenya is on the rise as ...
Just as people cut their toenails when they get too long, some beef cattle also need to have their hooves trimmed on occasion to help keep them from going lame, say Kansas State University ...