hoof curl problem help

LoneStrChic23 · #21 02/22/13, 07:52 AM

Haha Katie I'm the same way with the gloves!!! Regretted the lack of gloves when I trimmed with a knife for the first time though.... nearly took off the tip of my thumb

**Tiempo** · #22 02/22/13, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Backfourty,MI.

Airwolf, Your girl is beautiful & look at those ears!

Great video Alice. I don't wear gloves & I know I should, I just don't feel like I can really feel what I'm doing. I am strange!

I trim hooves for a living and never wear gloves, I despise working in them. I would also discourage anyone with limited experience from trimming with a knife. That's a disaster in the making for the animal and the human

Hollowdweller · #23 02/22/13, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Alice In TX/MO

Out of my herd, it's the LaMancha with the worst feet. We don't keep any of her kids because her feet are SO bad.

I don't really have much experience with Lamanchas but the only ones I knew well had bad feet.

I helped my friend trim them.

The problems were mostly you'd have one normal sized half of the hoof and then the other would be really thin and with a very pronounced curve.

The other would be one clove was normal and the other turned under.

They were also mostly dam raised and had been cared for by 1 person so by the end of the trimming sessions they would all be bloody

I think with the saanens the main thing are spread toes and shallow heels. Purebreds generally being worst. A lot of the Wolfman Jack related stuff doesn't seem to be really great foot wise either to me.

I had one saanen buck with beatiful feet. Scored E and many of his daughters had nice feed. He was an American +*B Lake Country Opus Archon FS 90. but was mostly purebred background which made him even more unusual.

However he died and now I'm going back to having more + feet.

GoatJunkie · #24 02/22/13, 12:13 PM

I'm new to hoof trimming, but the thought of wearing gloves concerns me. I work by the *feel* of what's happening. Even thin gloves would block some of that. (I wear gloves for parts of my job, so it's not that I'm against them, or don't have any, because I do.)

My milk Mama has a turned in hoof on one of her rear legs. I've kept her feet trimmed close to the sole, but that is not the answer. I'm wondering if letting the axial wall grow might correct the problem....? (The hoof turns towards the center.)

Any advice is appreciated....