Knowledge from the barn, articles, research, guides.
A sole ulcer does not start on the sole. It starts underneath it. Drawing on van Amstel and Shearer's review and Bicalho's study of 501 cows: the mechanism, the digital cushion, and what not to do at the crush.
Read more →The third most expensive health problem in dairy, after mastitis and fertility. Drawing on Bruijnis's Wageningen thesis and Irish figures from 2024: what the cost is made of, and why the expensive part is the part nobody sees.
Read more →Precision at the crush matters, but so does the record you leave behind. We look at what that actually costs in minutes, and what changes when it goes digital.
Read more →A detailed summary of the study comparing copper sulphate, sodium hypochlorite and salt in footbaths. One of them is the only agent with consistent evidence behind it.
Read more →Based on Schultz and Capion (2013): salicylic acid as a non-antibiotic alternative for treating DD — and why it outperformed chlortetracycline over time.
Read more →We went through the market and picked six Android models that hold up in a hoof trimmer's working day — from budget classics to genuinely armoured machines.
Read more →A complete guide to classifying DD on the M-scale (M0–M4.1). How to tell an active lesion from a healing one and a chronic one — and what the disease costs in milk.
Read more →Hoof trimming is biomechanical engineering, not a pedicure. A walk through the Dutch Method as set out by Dr Egbert Toussaint Raven — and why each of the five steps exists.
Read more →Hoof trimming is now one of the hottest categories on social media — and you do not have to look to Scotland for it. We take HOOFJOB, run by Mateusz Urycki in Poland, as the example.
Read more →A practical guide to the most common ICAR Claw Health Atlas codes used in daily hoof trimming documentation.
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