The focus on proactive and preventive health in the dairy herd has increased the demands on hoofcare and lameness prevention. Our hoof health service can help you improve the locomotion of your cows.
A. Mobility Scoring and Data Collection
We can mobility score your cows according to your milk buyer requirements or we can train you to do your own mobility scoring, as we are a RoMS approved training centre. For further information please check here.
We can also collect, benchmark and analyse further data ranging from your foot trimmer’s findings to how long time your cows are standing. All this is essential information in understanding the causes of lameness in your herd and will help us improve hoofcare on your farm.
B. Cattle Hoofcare
We or our affiliated hoofcare professionals will visit you at agreed intervals, ensuring that the claw health of your animals remains at top form.
Our colleagues are highly experienced and qualified, able to effectively deal with lameness in a variety of management systems.
We shall choose the best hoof-trimming method for the environment your cattle are kept in, ensuring they receive the most appropriate hoofcare they deserve.
C. Hoofcare Training
We have years of experience in training farmers, hoofcare professionals and vets in foot trimming techniques. Some of the qualifications we hold are the Dutch Diploma in Cattle Footcare, the NPTC Level 3 Certificate of Competence in Cattle Foot Trimming and White Line Atlas Method Instructor.
From anatomy of the claw, to how biomechanics predispose to lameness, to what mitigating action you can take in order to ensure your cows remain healthy.
The techniques are becoming ever more refined, whether it is the 5-Step or the White Line Atlas hoofcare techniques. For that reason, we keep the training groups small, ensuring you maximise your learning experience. Whether you are a refresher or beginner we excel on both, as our delegates tell us. We are the go to training organisation for the White Line Atlas method, training all hoofcare professionals in this technique.
For more information please check our basic, advanced and White Line Atlas hoofcare page.
D. Lameness Risk Factors and Prevention
The wealth of experience that a CowSignals Master Trainer and an AHDB Mobility Mentor bring, can help us identify and successfully address risk factors on your holding.
- Our clients benefit from devising breeding plans, by selecting the most appropriate genomic sires that are likely to reduce lameness in their offspring.
- We shall work with your nutritionist or produce ourselves diets for your cows, to ensure claw horn quality and digital cushion are kept ship-shape.
- Inspect the cow accommodation, appraise and modify the cubicle design, so that it maximises comfort and cow lying times.
- Help you decide on the most suitable design, frequency, dilution rates and active ingredient for your foot-bath.
- Evaluate the housing environment and tracks, aspiring to minimise infection pressure on feet and finally aim for effective and prompt treatment of lame cows.
The result is simply healthier and stress-free cows!