Cattle Foot Trimming - The Hoofman

The National Assocation of Cattle Foot Trimmers or NACFT are delighted to announce the creation of the Register of Cattle Foot Trimmers which though created by the NACFT, will be autonomous, acting independently from the NACFT with its own powers, identity and website.
NACFT said “The NACFT committee have been listening hard to welfare groups, the AHDB Mobility Steering Group, supermarkets and milk wholesalers and we felt it was important to set up an independent advisory and disciplinary body that would represent and help protect the interests of milk producers. As an association we have always believed that only properly qualified foot trimmers should be trimming the nation’s herds but a professional register of properly qualified foot trimmers that farmers could refer to and communicate with in this day and age, is very prescient.”

The Hoofman Team are licensed cattle foot trimmers and take a bi-annual industry-recognised Check Day exam to remain fully qualified and current. This exam and the creation of the Register of Cattle Foot Trimmers will further set a bench mark of quality and confidence on which farmers, welfare groups and all other interested parties will be able to rely.

Charlie Harding has taken the appointment of treasurer of the National Association of Cattle Foot Trimmers .for 5 years

Jonathan Offland has been invited to go to the Cattle Lameness Conference on 20^th April 2016. for more infomation go to www.cattlelamenessconference.org.uk

Malcolm Hall is going on the Dairy land trimming course at Nantwich vets on May 23rd to look at alterative methods of trimming cows feet.

Customers can now see their routine visit trimming dates on the ALL4FEET site over the next 12 months. Click on Calendar at the top of the screen on the ALL4FEET customer page. Please contact us if any dates are inconvenient so we can rearrange the visit.

ALL4FEET Auto Text Now all customers herdsman will receive an Auto Text informing them that their hoof trimming report has been uploaded recommending "To check the reports to see if any animals require further attention or veterinary advice is recommended.". Bandage lists and block checks are now been Auto Text as well.

ALL4FEET Customers can now see who and when any of their business consultants look at their farm reports. Click on Users at the top of the screen on the ALL4FEET customer page. Reports can only be accessed with consent first by the customer. All parties will have to accept a privacy policy contract before viewing any customer information. This is requested when login to the ALL4FEET site for the first time.

ALL4FEET We have been computer recording hoof reports for 10 years on hoof trimming farm visits and now have purchased a new program with more detail digital information and notification for you the customer.

This program has been designed to allow you to share detailed hoof reports via the internet with your team of Consultants, Farm Manager, Herdsman, Vets, Nutritionist, Students, Farm Assurance and Milk buyers with individuals access controlled by you, this in turn promotes an immediate response to problems, concerns and taking urgent recommended action form your consultants will promote animal welfare and increase profits.

With graphs that high light concerns, the ability to view photos, to compare reports from previous trimmings, to research individual animals, retrieve and use detailed recorded data, to upload data and transfer the data to other relevant internet sites if required or requested. Automatic e mail to all parties informing of updated reports, a text notifications for treatments, recommendations and routine visits reminders with an individual online diary to view all through the internet.

This is a free service we provide, sharing this information with all your consultants can only improve the management of your business. All we require is you to forward e mail address of who you would require to view this information and we will do the rest.

To see your reports please e mail hoofman@hotmail.com to receive your username and password. To logon to the ALL4FEET site go to www.all4feet.uk

I am sorry to tell all our customers that Simeon Lloyd after 7 years has moved onto pastures new. Myself and all the team wish Sim all the best and will miss his wit, stories and infectious personality as well as missing Jaz. Where can i find a cattle hoof trimmer with a mate like that.

I would like to invite all the Hoofman customers to watch this video of Jon Huxley from the Dairy Expo 2015. A UK vet researching lameness on UK dairy units www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1I03C5Ttvc

New internet web site hoof trimming recording program coming soon. A program that Hoof trimmers and farmers can both record hoof problems and see history of each animal trimmed, the ability to mobility score and feed the results back to the hoof trimmers tablet. New tablet computer program on trial now. Will give customers a better insight into hoof problems,

Hoofman Mobility/Condition scoring tablet program. We mobility score lameness no farm with a 7" tablet on a program designed by hoof trimmers and DairyCo Mobility mentors, to score and identify animals that require treatment for lameness. We have been using the program for 2 years and have seen a benefit to farmer and trimmers as well as now giving a report of lameness for farm assurance and milk buyers. We now sell the tablet and program and have a number of vet practices, farmers and independent contractors that use the system. Mobility Scoring Program

We now offer Freeze Branding irons at 21/2" and now 2" in size. Please request size when booking branding visit.

Two new members to the Hoofman team are Jon Offland who starts the end of August and Conner Whitehead who is out with us now. "click on the blue names to read more."

Trialing out new recording system, it would work the same as we record now with the ability to photo the problem foot so you the customer can see the extent of the problem, Details of the farm, cow ID foot and date are at the top of the photo, . What I would like is your" the customer" thoughts on this method of recording. We also would like our customers to use the free recording app program so the customer can update there own records when they trim a cows feet. By uploading it to the Hoofman web site this will give a better history recording of problems and improvements.

Click on photos and see problems enlarged. These will be images you may see on your report sheet page in the future.

NEW Cattle Foot Trimmers with Wopa 51 Chutes "Wopa 51 Tweets". I have a number of cattle foot trimmers ring with problems so I am setting up a link that you can look at photos and see what we do to improve the cow flow and comfort in our Wopa 51 crushes as well as correcting problems. If you have any suggestions please e mail me with photo and reasons so we can improve the chutes we work with every day and see what is new on models coming from Holland.

The Hoofman has a number of vacancies. Cattle Foot Trimmer, part time Freeze Brander and a part time Locomotion Scorer. Applicants will need a clean driving licence, a number of years experience working with dairy cattle and enjoy being around dairy cattle as well as being able to work in a team.

Cattle Foot trimmer: Experience in foot trimming is not essential. The first 3 months working in the Hoofman team you will work with hoof trimmers gaining experience of claw trimming method, cattle, farmer and herdsman handling and machine safety as well as taking the 4 day course at Embryonics in the Dutch method for cattle foot trimming. This is a vacancy for someone who enjoys working with dairy cows without the milking. Please send your CV to hoofman@hotmail.com please do not phone. We have taken a foot trimmer on and now looking for another employee to train to brand and trim cows feet.

Locomotion Scorer is a new part of the Hoofman were we offer Mobility scoring ,condition scoring and lameness location processed on a tablet computer giving information to the Farmer, Vet, Milk Buyer and Hoof Trimmer. This would start as a small numbers of days a month increasing over time.

Alex who most of you know as the main freeze brander at the Hoofman has taken a liking to numbers that from September on a Monday and Tuesday has enrolled on a accountancy course and may be leaving the Hoofman in time to move onto an office chair.

Coming soon a new video of the Hoofman and the assessment day we have to take every 2 years to keep standards in claw trimming high with an Embryonics vet and a assessor from the NACFT.

Very busy with the Dairy cow claw trimming at the moment as cattle have had a hard winter although down on last years foot trimmings to under 4000 cows trimmed in April. We do think it could be that profits are down on the milking herds so farmers are cutting back on routine trimming yet we have seen a 5% increase in blocks on last year. Finding a lot more problems this year with our spring calving herds with white line with DD running under the white line. Alex is very busy on the freeze branding so please phone early to get dates that suit you.

For any non customers why not trial our Demo report sheets "Left hand side of this page, bottom link" Click on link Demo report sheet, click on any date in light blue "wait a few seconds for that days report sheet to upload. Click on any cow number in light blue to see her history of trimming. We are now updating hoof reports on the internet as we trim and reports can be read on i phones .

Keep an eye on how many cows the Hoofman team trims in 365 days in the green box over the login box on the left of the screen.

Your report sheets are now on our new internet data base that enables you to look at the history of any cow that has been trimmed and see the history of her ailments in the last 12 months just by high lighting the cow number. View it on your phone or computers. Also easy to read information showing lameness problems on the last visit comparing to the last 12 months and 5 years of visits. I would like any suggestions on information you would like with your reports.

New cattle hoof trimmers regulating body