What do you think is the best way? I have a few to do when we test next month and I cant decide how to do it
trimming hooves
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We usually try to keep some rock by the water but it didnt do as good this time. I had used tin snips when i didnt have anything else, but I think there has to be an easier way
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St. Ignace, Northern Michigan
Horse hoof trimmers will work but are cumbersome. I just trimmed in October with a good tree branch trimmer and it worked great.Just cut 1/8 of a inch at a time because you will hit the blood line if you cut back to far.I always have blood stop powder in case they start to bleed. Trimmers for llamas also work good.
We also have rock around our feeders, but we have one older doe that needs her hoof trimmed every year, its just one hoof and it looks like an elf foot. We use a tree trimmer clipper to prune.
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Markleville IN
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St. Ignace, Northern Michigan
Here is a doe I purchased as a fawn with no info on background. I was constantly trimming to keep her as normal about 10 years ago as we had a whitetail live exhibit so the public commented on any flaws our deer had. This picture was after a deep snow all winter and we never notice her hooves, She was trimmed in the fall during our TB test so this was 5 months of growth
and she had spent every summer on a all gravel pen with not even a blade of grass in it. We euthanized her at age 2 and her two fawns that spring to end this abnormal trait which we have never seen before in our 26 years of raising whitetails. Our vet could not pin point if she was lacking anything as all the other deer in her pen had normal deer hooves. After trimming back only a inch we were into a blood vein. We used blood stop powder but found that cob-webs worked the best. That secret was from my wife as she has a dark spot on her finger from getting her finger in her dads table saw pully as a small child. The doctor made a house and told her dad to go in the basement a bring back some cob webs. They are very visible just under the the skin. I used it on a fawn I hit with a dart and it imbeded about about 3/4 inch and hit a blood vein. It lost so much blood before I packed it with cobwebs I figured by morning I would be digging a hole but to my surprize it was out running with the other fawns .I guess that is why I wrote the book on raising deer. Deer Whisperer
www.deerwhispererbook.com
and she had spent every summer on a all gravel pen with not even a blade of grass in it. We euthanized her at age 2 and her two fawns that spring to end this abnormal trait which we have never seen before in our 26 years of raising whitetails. Our vet could not pin point if she was lacking anything as all the other deer in her pen had normal deer hooves. After trimming back only a inch we were into a blood vein. We used blood stop powder but found that cob-webs worked the best. That secret was from my wife as she has a dark spot on her finger from getting her finger in her dads table saw pully as a small child. The doctor made a house and told her dad to go in the basement a bring back some cob webs. They are very visible just under the the skin. I used it on a fawn I hit with a dart and it imbeded about about 3/4 inch and hit a blood vein. It lost so much blood before I packed it with cobwebs I figured by morning I would be digging a hole but to my surprize it was out running with the other fawns .I guess that is why I wrote the book on raising deer. Deer Whisperer
www.deerwhispererbook.com
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Linesville, PA
http://www.jefferspet.com/product.asp?pn=M6-T1&green=8251B875-2E93-5CBD-A042-6D9F7D222F53
"Shear Magic" Hoof Trimmer from Jefferslivestock.com
Works great.
"Shear Magic" Hoof Trimmer from Jefferslivestock.com
Works great.