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No, it’s cows. The Hoof GP. They repair and trim cow hooves. Usually infections and wounds. It’s gross.
Nope, it’s a repair/ for only when they are injured I guess. Not a regular trim like a horse. I won’t watch it.Interesting. We have had horses and cows. Having the farrier take care of the horses' feet was a given. Never had anyone look at the cows feet.
Is it a Kentucky thing?
Nope, it’s a repair/ for only when they are injured I guess. Not a regular trim like a horse. I won’t watch it.
Yeah - our cows were nice enough to touch and stuff, but pick up their foot, no freaking way.
Yeah - our cows were nice enough to touch and stuff, but pick up their foot, no freaking way.
I love that showInteresting. I actually enjoy actual medical diagnostic shows.
Fascinating stuff. My mother grew up in farm country in Wisconsin - and her Daddy actually grew up on a farm - but I know next to nothing about this stuff.wow - I didn't expect confusion about a throw a way line. I forgot, the is GC.
Ok - lets remember I was born in Baltimore Md and grew up in the suburbs. Cows were something I saw on TV or at the zoo.
Then I moved to P'cola and then later after marriage to the Gainesville area on a 10-acre property.
We had 3 cows at first. Then added a bull later. We had Polled Herefords. A popular beef breed in Fl.
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No horns. Instead, they had a "poll". A bump in their head between where two horns might grow.
Again, I had no history about them. Anyway, the heifers, cows were very curious. I fed them daily. So they trusted me. Hell, if they saw me, they came on over to see me to see if I had food. They would run from 7 acres away to me.
If I was working on the fence and put my hammer down, they would taste it to see if it was food. I would go to pick it up and it was all wet from them. We have the girls first and bought sperm online and had a vet insert it in them. Poof, 3 became 6. That was cool, but pricey. Being able to put hands on from birth or a young age was helpful when moving them from one paddock to another. Or worming them. Or putting meds in their eye for pink eye. Or to castrate them. Or load them into the trailer.
So we got a bull. Same deal with him. I fed him and trust happened. Then one day I touched his poll (oh goodness, I can already hear the comments) and he got feisty. I tried that on the girls, they didn't like it, but would not really respond other than moving their head away from my hand and then look for the food.
The bull, we named him Tenderloin, Teddy for short. All the cows had correct names, One calf was a boy, hence to be called Cheeseburger. We had a hamburger. Potty (pot roast). We had Short Ribs, Shorty, Stewie (beef stew) and others. We had kids, we didn't want them to get attached, hence the names. Breeder had names like Big momma, Mother Mary Jane. We also grew watermelons and corn and other stuff. The kids would ask, when can we eat the watermelon? When they are big enough was the reply.
Same for the cows were we going to eat, the kids would ask, when will we eat them. Answer? When they are big enough. So they kids knew right away, some cows were keepers, breeders, some were food. ****, those names help me too.
Anyway - the bull was fun at points when he was smaller. Touch his pole once or twice and it was ON. While small, those battles were fine, almost funny. I was always stronger, faster. And as the provider of food, he really didn't want to fight, just enough to get back to his food. It was funny for a bit. Until he got big. Then he was like I'll beat your a@# and eat afterward. I would go out on the lawnmower to cut the pastures, and would find him running up on me from behind. He would pick a fight with a fence post and ram it, back up and the ram it again. Rinse and repeat. For hours. He got too aggressive, and we had to sell him, couldn't trust him around the kids.
So many stories to tell about that time / experience. So yes, I put hands no them for "stuff".
Next time you need to cook the collards with some fat back pork and use hot pepper vinegar on them. Especially on New Year’s Day. It’s tradition in the south with the black eyed peas.I am not a fan of collards. They SUCK. One year our neighbor grew them and had a bunch. He had fresh picked ones he didn't need and asked if could give them to the cows, heifers. Of course I said yes. He dumped them in our pasture. The animals saw me and came running. They got to those collards and seemed interest and sniffed them and tried them. They all walked away and left them. A week later I gathered them up and put them in the trash. No when some one tells me how good collards are, I say BS, my cows wouldn't even eat them.
Cow goes in "the crush" to be lifted. Hooves trimmed.
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Bolded - Yes I know. My wife told me every year for about 20 years before she finally realized I didn't care and wasn't eating them. I am a picky plain jane potatoe and steak kind of guy. Not a foodie.Next time you need to cook the collards with some fat back pork and use hot pepper vinegar on them. Especially on New Year’s Day. It’s tradition in the south with the black eyed peas.
Wait, are we talking about cows still, or...ok - a learning moment.
When our first baby was born from the artificial inseminations. We thought one was a male. It had a bunch of hair where the testis should be. As it was very young, no trust had been formed yet, so it was hard to catch and inspect him. But if it was a male, we needed to castrate it as it would be one we would eat.
So one of my wife coworkers was a real cattle farmer. Unlike me.
My wife is from Bama. I thought she knew this stuff. I'm a city boy.
So they come over and he asks me about the animal in question. I pointed it out to him. From 50-60 yards away from it, he looked at me, smiled, and said, thats a female sir.
One of the other two was a male and he showed us how to castrate it.
I bet he still tells people about the dumbs assed Yankee he helped.
We gave them some meat from it.
Collard greens and black eyed peas aren’t for foodiesBolded - Yes I know. My wife told me every year for about 20 years before she finally realized I didn't care and wasn't eating them. I am a picky plain jane potatoe and steak kind of guy. Not a foodie.
The next time I cook collards will be the first time. Not a fan of those black eyed peas either.
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