The hoof GP

[happycows]

After watching his videos on Facebook for 6 months and really enjoying them I’ve just coughed up £299 plus vat and bought his full course.
I spent good few years looking over trimmers shoulder’s. Some I liked some I didn’t and then 8 years doing my own, I’ve never had any proper training.
Hopefully I will learn a thing or two and I’ll try to get my son to sit through them too.
Anyone else taken the course?

The Hoof GP

www.learnthehoofgp.com

 

[Dead Rabbits]

So it’s a video course? Wasn’t super clear to me on the website.

I’m a fan of his videos and the way he trims. Several members on here he trims for.

 

[happycows]

So it’s a video course? Wasn’t super clear to me on the website.

I’m a fan of his videos and the way he trims. Several members on here he trims for.

Yes 50 odd videos and you can go back and watch at anytime. His technique is very similar to how i trim which is why i've done it.
I've watched a few others trim that teach over the years and i personally couldn't let cows out the crush with some of the things i seen. For a few trimmers it seems to be a race. i heard one blokes target was to get to £1000 a day.

 

[frederick]

Son was watching one of his videos today. Asked me what I would do to that foot.
I said sack whoever was in charge of the cows to allow a foot to get like that.
I don't understand how Dairy cows are ever allowed to get overgrown bad feet not good publishing poor farmers bad stockman ship to the general public and calling it education

 

[Cowman31]

I don’t rate the hoof gp one bit. In my view the feet he goes to trim are beyond terrible and he is as bad as they are for letting them get like that..

 

[Cowman31]

Plus a lot of these trimmers are after numbers and not quality, to pay back the ridiculous loans they have on these overpriced crushes. Our crush was £100 second hand and works perfectly fine

 

[happycows]

I don’t rate the hoof gp one bit. In my view the feet he goes to trim are beyond terrible and he is as bad as they are for letting them get like that..

I guess he can only do whats infront of him. you can recommend to a farmer but you can't make him do it. Some probably start with good intentions but get behind and then its a salvage job.
I routine trim once 2/3 weeks before drying off and again 12 weeks post calving. This is probably excessive but the price of cows i'm happy to do it.
still get lame cows but you don't get the grossly overgrown feet you see on some clips.

 

[DairyGrazing]

Plus a lot of these trimmers are after numbers and not quality, to pay back the ridiculous loans they have on these overpriced crushes. Our crush was £100 second hand and works perfectly fine

Bet Wayne Rooney said the same thing about the Granny he got caught with!

 

[Dead Rabbits]

I don’t rate the hoof gp one bit. In my view the feet he goes to trim are beyond terrible and he is as bad as they are for letting them get like that..

Really? He doesn’t own the cows. He provides a service.

As for the trim chutes I doubt you would be trimming in that £100 one all day every day. The guy I get in has the same one. In the neighborhood of £50k. Probably over priced but nothing does what they can as effective and efficiently.

 

[Sid]

Yes 50 odd videos and you can go back and watch at anytime. His technique is very similar to how i trim which is why i've done it.
I've watched a few others trim that teach over the years and i personally couldn't let cows out the crush with some of the things i seen. For a few trimmers it seems to be a race. i heard one blokes target was to get to £1000 a day.

I've no trouble with anyone using videos to improve a technique.

Would you let a hoof trimmer or anyone loose on your cows feet having solely learnt from YouTube and not been checked by a competent person?

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Never heard of him till now
YouTube analytics have him earning circa $40k/month from his vids. Even if that is on the high side, I'm guessing it may skew his content in a certain direction. I can't see vid after vid of routine trims being quite as popular.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

One of his vids has over 7 million views.
With a total impression of over 200 million.

Always impressed by what one person with drive and determination can do.
Thems the sort of numbers that ahdb, RT, NFU, etc can only dream of and there's thousands of them, costing millions

 

[Cowman31]

Really? He doesn’t own the cows. He provides a service.

As for the trim chutes I doubt you would be trimming in that £100 one all day every day. The guy I get in has the same one. In the neighborhood of £50k. Probably over priced but nothing does what they can as effective and efficiently.

Yep, we trim in that crush everyday all day and get no complaints from staff. 2 lame cows out of 1600 isn’t bag going for a £100 crush, just saying....

 

[Optimus]

Why are you trimming cows feet all day every day?

 

[Cowman31]

Prevention is better than cure my friend. A lot of people seem to forget that a lot is paid for off the back of a cow so why would you not want to keep her in tip top condition?..a cow is nothing without good feet.
So when you are watching the Hoof Gp trimming cows feet that looked like they have never been touched then maybe it is something to remember...it takes 5 mins to pick up a cows foot and that cow will pay you back 10 fold..

 

[Suckndiesel]

Prevention is better than cure my friend. A lot of people seem to forget that a lot is paid for off the back of a cow so why would you not want to keep her in tip top condition?..a cow is nothing without good feet.
So when you are watching the Hoof Gp trimming cows feet that looked like they have never been touched then maybe it is something to remember...it takes 5 mins to pick up a cows foot and that cow will pay you back 10 fold..

Prevention certainly is but what use to people would the hoof gps videos be if they were of perfectly good feet being trimmed?

 

[Cowman31]

Do you honestly think he gives a hoot about the people watching them vids?. If he cared more about the viewers then why is he taking sponsorship from irrelevant company’s like Nord VPN and Ridge wallet?...who the hell owns a Ridge wallet?...mother of god

 

[Optimus]

Prevention is better than cure my friend. A lot of people seem to forget that a lot is paid for off the back of a cow so why would you not want to keep her in tip top condition?..a cow is nothing without good feet.
So when you are watching the Hoof Gp trimming cows feet that looked like they have never been touched then maybe it is something to remember...it takes 5 mins to pick up a cows foot and that cow will pay you back 10 fold..

I agree with you.just made me wonder how often you had there feet looked at.once a month?

 

[Cowman31]

Plus if the hoof go is earning all this money then you would think he would loan his brother in law Craig some money to get a proper hair cut...

 

[Cowman31]

I agree with you.just made me wonder how often you had there feet looked at.once a month?

Once a year is plenty enough, good tracks, infrastructure is half the battle