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An effective regimen for preventing lameness in your herd can have a significant impact on the yield and profitability you achieve.

Regular visits for mobility scoring, assessment and hoof trimming as required can help you minimise the main causes of lameness. As highly experienced and qualified hoof trimmers, and licenced Mobillity Scorers, you can be sure of first class lameness prevention services for your herd. Throughout Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Monmouthshire and Gwent, we offer a complete consultancy, assessment and foot trimming service.

Call us on the number shown or click in the header of any page to send us an email and arrange an initial consultancy visit.

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Training Courses and CPD

Training icourses are available at varying levels on group or individual basis. You can choose a one or two day Herdsman level course or a full, two day Professional level course. The locations are flexible, either on your own farm or with a host farm that can accommodate a number of attendees.

The course contents include:

Basic anatomy of the hoof
Anatomy of the lower leg and its effect on the foot
Causes of lameness in cattle
Common infectious and non-infectious conditions of the foot
Trimming techniques
Practical sessions with cadaver feet
Routine prevention trimming
Cattle welfare and handling while trimming

For details of hoof care training courses in your area, including course fees, simply click in the header of any page to send us an email.

Wincanton, in South Somerset, is uniquely twinned with a fictional town: Ankh-Morpork, a city state in Terry Pratchett’s “Discworld”, that magical place where if a librarian can be an orang utang with a single word vocabulary, virtually anything can happen. The world of magic though is strictly fictitious here and local dairy farmers havae to deal with the everyday realities of managing cattle just like anywhere else. Just like anywhere else, cattle lameness is an ever present threat to yield, so a number of farmers in Wincanton rely on NJB Hoofcare for:

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