Hoof problems in cows

- Doctor, that cow is so lame all the time, I have already injected antibiotics and the cow continue laming. And there on the hoof is not seen nothing, however she walks. Alejandro said while pushing the cow getting little steps always showing pain in his right hind leg. Sure, with Alejandro¨s weight any walk after such a push. And is the matter that in our country it is common hoof problems are not given the importance they deserve.


Some years ago. I follow the instructions: - Reach the last stop (Oranienburg) S1 line subway in Berlin (Germany). Then take the bus Zhelendorf direction get off at Smachtenhagen Town.
Arriving at Oranienburg, a small town north of Berlin and go a few minutes to my destination, it means to pass in front of an old Nazi concentration camp, Sachsenhausen. Today is a museum and it's hard not to stop and visit to see how far can the human being when he decided to "classify" people "supporters and enemies", consider that a human group is "less" and even reach the bodies and try to dismantle industrial uses, such as hair, skin, teeth, etc.

 
http://www.ciao.es/opinion_images_view.php/OpinionId/1705752/Img/14008677 Schmachtenhagen is a town even smaller and still marked by the former East Germany (communism) is still common to find people who do not speak English (German and Russian only). Inmediatly I get to orders from one of these men, Herr Waligora, who although facial hard aspect that remember all that many lived in those parts, gets me very kindly and tells me how to work with jocularity there and what I will do daily. German folk food, there is all I want in the restaurant that the farm has open to the public, a great cup of coffee and the computer to learn about the system before going to the cows.

Schmachtenhagen

 

One of the things that caught my attention is when an espetializad team arrived for hoof treatments, a Dutch truck full of equipment: portable cattle stock, claws cutter, and more. once a month they visit the farm to the hoof trimming. And is that the Dutch technique, not in vain, is perhaps the most recognized in the maintenance of good claw health in cows.

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In our contry we work a bit more rustic, we do much heavier work. Technology is not a luxury, is a necessity. Even so, we use the principles of Dutch techniques for the prevention and correction of hoof problems in cattle ...

 

In the pictures above, you can see a field practice with my students learning how to prevent and correct hoof problems in cattle. A little more uncomfortable than if we had a special cattle stock, that on the market reaches about $ 14,000.

Too bad is that in countries like ours, weapon budgets are more important than university budgets.