Following is a transcript of the video. - 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 ...

There are many essential livestock practices that might be weird or unique to outsides, but are really just an everyday job ...

Flakes and shavings from a cow’s hoof fly through the air and ping off Max Boden’s protective glasses while he gives a bovine pedicure. Guiding an electric grinder, he trims a Jersey cow’s hooves to ...

Kelsie struggled a bit in the squeeze chute as she settled in for her yearly pedicure. With a rope attached below her “dew claws,” we gently lifted her hoof, fastening the line to a bar at the top of ...

Cattle pedicures, or more properly called hoof trimming, are not something the public, and even some cattle producers, think of as an essential part of a health care program for dairy and beef ...

LARKIN TOWNSHIP - Jerry and Kristi Varner's cows get good rewards for their milk: comfortable barns with fans to cool them on hot days, meals developed by a nutritionist and pedicures from a guy who ...

Farms showed more than 2,500 cows at the World Dairy Expo in Madison. Cow clippers, also known as fitters, spend hours preparing the cows for showing. Fitters use razors, hair dryers, hoof polish, ...

After this winter's freeze and thaw coupled with recent rains, many Arkansas landowners have seen their pastures transform into vast acres of mud. Dirk Philipp, associate professor of animal science ...