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Post by talltimber on Jul 4, 2019 6:26:51 GMT -6
What's everyone's opinion on trimming a good cows feet? I have a few that I nip a little off of once or twice a yr when they come through the chute.
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jul 4, 2019 7:42:32 GMT -6
Does a "good" cow need their feet trimed?
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Post by randy on Jul 4, 2019 7:54:15 GMT -6
In my area i don't think they should need there feet trimmed. In other areas i am sure they do. If it genetic like screw claw its headed to the sale barn.
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Post by highgrit on Jul 4, 2019 9:17:46 GMT -6
A good cow doesn't need it's feet trimmed.
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Post by tcranch on Jul 4, 2019 13:07:53 GMT -6
Agree, a good cow doesn't need her feet trimmed. Learned that the hard way. She always seemed to have some sort of foot problems but bred like clockwork & raised great calves so we dealt with it. Until she had her last calf - and immediately stepped on its head. Buh bye!
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Post by jehosofat on Jul 4, 2019 18:33:01 GMT -6
Raise em where I do and the rocks will keep em trimmed.
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Post by bulltrader on Jul 4, 2019 18:38:32 GMT -6
Can't prove this but the more water tanks and fencing we add the less the cows walk so I see some issues. Mine never walk over 100 yards to water. Fresh paddock every few days so always lots of grass.
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Post by okie on Jul 4, 2019 21:01:56 GMT -6
I don't have a problem with it if you're selling her calves. I wouldn't keep a registered calf out of her but if she's good enough to cover the cost of a trim now and then and you're not reproducing the problem, who cares?
Personally, I've never trimmed one. I like to make daughters so I cull stuff that won't do that.
When I was doing AI work, my most progressive dairy customers ran every single cow across a trimming table at dry off. They expected me to help them make cows that didn't need it but accepted it as sound management.
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Post by talltimber on Jul 5, 2019 5:21:12 GMT -6
That's where I was coming from. It should have more properly read, "an otherwise good cow".
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Post by sleepy on Jul 9, 2019 13:25:53 GMT -6
I saw a 4-5 yr old Brangus bull, at the sale barn the other week. He was covered in freeze brands up one side and down the other. Obviously a well bred bull someone, had spent a lot of effort/money acquiring , and bringing into this country. He had corkscrew claws on both back feet, terrible shape for a bull that age. The only logical reason anyone would use that bull in my country would be to create replacement heifers. I expect someone has 2 calf crops of those daughters coming on that they are real proud of. I've always been told corkscrew was pure genetics. I watched that bull creep around the pen, and wondered about his story and where he came from.
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Post by dw on Jul 9, 2019 13:42:20 GMT -6
We have two R.A. Brown bulls, this upcoming breeding season is there third one and will be there last one on our place. Have to trim there feet every year. They have some great calves off them, but tired of the feet problems. They gonna ride after this breeding season and we aren’t keeping any replacements off them.
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Post by Jake on Jul 9, 2019 18:20:32 GMT -6
I won’t trim them period. Don’t have time to allow for it. Have a bull this year that got an abscess in his back left. He likely stepped on something in the lot before turnout and was standing in mud all winter. Can’t decide whether to give him a pass or ship him when he heals.
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