The hoof GP

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?

 

Dead Rabbits

Member
Location
'Merica
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.
 
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

Member
Location
south west
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
 
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.
 

Dead Rabbits

Member
Location
'Merica
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

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
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?
 

Cowman31

Member
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....
 

Cowman31

Member
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

Member
Location
Newtownards
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

Member
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

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North of Perth
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?
 

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