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<blockquote data-quote="CattleAnnie" data-source="post: 56873" data-attributes="member: 220"><p>Just had the folks out that trim cattle hooves yesterday. Now there's ingenuity if you ever saw it!</p><p></p><p>They've got a hydraulic tilt table that's on an axle and can be hauled behind their pickup from ranch to ranch. Husband and wife team, and takes them less than ten minutes a head. They back up the trailer/table, crank it down onto the ground, run an animal into it, hook up the belly and chest bands and jiffy presto - the hydraulics kick in and the animal is tilted onto it's side. Wife takes four short ropes and secures the legs to the frame for the pedicure and while Hubby is trimming the top side set of hooves, Wife is trimming the bottom. Pretty slick! When the job is done, the legs are untied, table set back upright, front gate opened and onto the next animal they go.</p><p></p><p>They use the long handled nippers to roughly shape each claw and knock the tips off the toes, then (thanks to our portable generator, as we've no power at either the barn or the working corrals) they use a grinder to fine tune the claw shape and edge out the sandcracks.</p><p></p><p>Sure did a nice job again on our bulls and the one cow I've got with bad feet (yeah, I know I should send her down the road, but aside from the feet...and the fact that there's no salvage value in culls...well, she's a good producer and is staying for another year).</p><p></p><p>It's sure a good investment getting your stock trimmed up like that. Especially the bulls. If they can't travel comfortably it sure can affect their ability to cover the cows effectively.</p><p></p><p>Last time they were out was that infamous day in May when that lone case of Canadian BSE was announced. Was glad to see that this time there was no coincidental bad news accompaning the trimmers.</p><p></p><p>Take care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CattleAnnie, post: 56873, member: 220"] Just had the folks out that trim cattle hooves yesterday. Now there's ingenuity if you ever saw it! They've got a hydraulic tilt table that's on an axle and can be hauled behind their pickup from ranch to ranch. Husband and wife team, and takes them less than ten minutes a head. They back up the trailer/table, crank it down onto the ground, run an animal into it, hook up the belly and chest bands and jiffy presto - the hydraulics kick in and the animal is tilted onto it's side. Wife takes four short ropes and secures the legs to the frame for the pedicure and while Hubby is trimming the top side set of hooves, Wife is trimming the bottom. Pretty slick! When the job is done, the legs are untied, table set back upright, front gate opened and onto the next animal they go. They use the long handled nippers to roughly shape each claw and knock the tips off the toes, then (thanks to our portable generator, as we've no power at either the barn or the working corrals) they use a grinder to fine tune the claw shape and edge out the sandcracks. Sure did a nice job again on our bulls and the one cow I've got with bad feet (yeah, I know I should send her down the road, but aside from the feet...and the fact that there's no salvage value in culls...well, she's a good producer and is staying for another year). It's sure a good investment getting your stock trimmed up like that. Especially the bulls. If they can't travel comfortably it sure can affect their ability to cover the cows effectively. Last time they were out was that infamous day in May when that lone case of Canadian BSE was announced. Was glad to see that this time there was no coincidental bad news accompaning the trimmers. Take care. [/QUOTE]
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