Regular hoof trimming may increase the functional life of a dairy cow. Correct trimming gives the animals' hooves stability and enables them to distribute weight equally between the hooves.

Strong, healthy feet are important for cows, and in a dairy there are many factors that can compromise hoof health. Most dairies utilize the services of a hoof trimmer to keep feet properly ...

My name is Nate Ranallo, and I am a hoof trimmer. I'm going to show you how I remove rocks and screws from cows' feet. I trim primarily dairy cows. On a typical day, I'll trim anywhere from 40 to ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. It is easily an ignored part of dairy cow management. Yet, hoof trimming determines about ...

How to protect cow hoof health and, if that fails, next steps for cow-calf farmers when one of their beef herd comes up lame.

Dairy calves weaned gradually are more likely to have greater gain, more feed consumption and fewer health issues than those ...

Tuesday morning, bright and early, students were dressed in their crisp white shirts and ironed white Wranglers, making sure their dairy cows were ready to put their best hoof forward in the Dairy Cow ...

A version of the avian influenza virus different from the one rampaging through herds since last spring has been detected in ...