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<blockquote data-quote="Chuckie" data-source="post: 1080976" data-attributes="member: 637"><p>Alex, I have made that very same comment about horses and cattle. If you ever bought a horse with straight legs shoulders and hip and rode him for an hour, you would be looking to unload him quick. At one time or another, we might have been young and dumb, and didn't know about the mechanics of a horse had to learn by experience. I had one, and I couldn't figure out why it rode that way at the ripe age of 12. I thought if I just got it to slow down more it would get smoother. The poor horse couldn't get any slower, as it just didn't have any shock absorbers in it's body. Any movement over a walk would have removed dentures if you had them. She was a pretty mare, easy to over look the shoulder and hip; and when I sold her, the people were glad to get her. Me? :wave: </p><p></p><p>It is amazing how much of horse mechanics that can be used in cattle mechanics. Of course there are many differences.</p><p>How a bull walks is one of my biggest pet peeves, and it is almost impossible for me to find the perfect bull. But I have found the very longer bulls that are not the larger framed bulls, can't step in their front foot print. </p><p></p><p>It is very difficult to find a bull with the perfect set on his back legs, as many have a very slight bit of sickle hock, but not to a fault. </p><p>In some of the videos at the sales, I found out that when the bulls are taking shorter steps, it is from having trimmed the bulls short, and their feet hurt, and their toes are very sensitive, and they don't want to put any pressure on the toes. </p><p>I took a couple of cows to have their feet trimmed. As the man was trimming, the blood started running. I was concerned that he had her foot bleeding so badly like that. He squirted iodine all over it, and let her down. Then when they got home, their feet were really sore. It took a couple of months for her feet to return to normal. She was not limping before she went for the trim. She took very short steps like the bulls. She wasn't limping, just wouldn't put pressure on her toes.</p><p></p><p>So when we are seeing the short steps these sale animals are taking; are we seeing structure damage or are their feet hurting? That is just something we have to figure out. I guess go to the barn manager and find out when the bull was trimmed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chuckie, post: 1080976, member: 637"] Alex, I have made that very same comment about horses and cattle. If you ever bought a horse with straight legs shoulders and hip and rode him for an hour, you would be looking to unload him quick. At one time or another, we might have been young and dumb, and didn't know about the mechanics of a horse had to learn by experience. I had one, and I couldn't figure out why it rode that way at the ripe age of 12. I thought if I just got it to slow down more it would get smoother. The poor horse couldn't get any slower, as it just didn't have any shock absorbers in it's body. Any movement over a walk would have removed dentures if you had them. She was a pretty mare, easy to over look the shoulder and hip; and when I sold her, the people were glad to get her. Me? :wave: It is amazing how much of horse mechanics that can be used in cattle mechanics. Of course there are many differences. How a bull walks is one of my biggest pet peeves, and it is almost impossible for me to find the perfect bull. But I have found the very longer bulls that are not the larger framed bulls, can't step in their front foot print. It is very difficult to find a bull with the perfect set on his back legs, as many have a very slight bit of sickle hock, but not to a fault. In some of the videos at the sales, I found out that when the bulls are taking shorter steps, it is from having trimmed the bulls short, and their feet hurt, and their toes are very sensitive, and they don't want to put any pressure on the toes. I took a couple of cows to have their feet trimmed. As the man was trimming, the blood started running. I was concerned that he had her foot bleeding so badly like that. He squirted iodine all over it, and let her down. Then when they got home, their feet were really sore. It took a couple of months for her feet to return to normal. She was not limping before she went for the trim. She took very short steps like the bulls. She wasn't limping, just wouldn't put pressure on her toes. So when we are seeing the short steps these sale animals are taking; are we seeing structure damage or are their feet hurting? That is just something we have to figure out. I guess go to the barn manager and find out when the bull was trimmed. [/QUOTE]
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