Hello everyone and welcome back to the channel. Today's video, we'll be taking a look at a cow that one of my farmers had

worked on, but could not find the lameness issue in. And it only takes a minute and I've already spotted the

issue. First things first, I'm going to remove this wrap. Not exactly sure what it was put on for. Sometimes farmers will put

some antibiotic ointment or things in between the toes, thinking that perhaps the issue's there when they can't find

anything if there's some swelling, whatnot. But in this case, it really didn't do anything to solve this problem.

This may seem like an obvious problem with me pointing at it, but if you're not used to looking at feet every day, it's

something that can go unnoticed. The obvious first step here is to get enough of this hoof removed so I can get at

this nail or screw or whatever I've got going here, and so I can get a hold of it

to pull it out. Right now, she's got it driven completely flush with the sole of her foot; there's nothing to grab onto.

I've got a pair away enough hoof that I can get in there and pull that thing out. My first thought was that this must have

been a screw because it was very stubborn; did not want to come out of there at all. Once I get a hold of it, though, and I'm

able to pull it out, I can see that it's a piece of rusted-off nail. It's a

different type of nail to an old—the older style, more like a spike—which makes me think that this was maybe some

buried debris out in the pasture that where she picked this up. Even though we've gotten that nail out of there,

the job's not done. Almost always when we have a puncture situation like this, you're going to end up with sole separation.

Underneath it, so we're going to have to clear that whole area out and get it prepped and ready to go.

You're going to notice what started out as a pretty small hole; it's going to end up being quite a large area of soul.

separation. When you're dealing with punctures, you're never really quite sure where the margins are going to be for these, so you

kind of have to work slowly, peeling away little bits at a time until you get to the edges. You don't want to get too

aggressive because you're going to end up with—you're going to end up peeling back and hurting corium that's actually

attached. It doesn't separate fully like you would see in a normal abscess situation. Now that I've got that taken care of, I'm

glue blocking that sound toe to elevate the injured claw, give it time to rest. The thing with punctures is they really

usually heal up really well as long as we can keep the infection out of there. You're in good shape.

Let's spray this with chlorhexidine, and that's going to keep that area nice and disinfected, basically, and allow it

to heal up. Put a light wrap on there just to keep the debris and stuff out of that for the first few hours, and she'll

be set to go. Here, I'm just gently scrubbing the actual puncture site itself to make sure

there's no debris pushed up in there and to make sure it's as clean as possible before I wrap it up.

There you have it, guys, another happy cow on the mend. As always, thanks for watching. We'll see you on the

Ep. 21 WHAT DOES THIS GIRL HAVE STUCK IN HER HOOF???