how to trim goat hooves video

[Marc]

Hope this is helpful.

[Nanno]

Thanks for this Marc!

[Charlie Horse]

Its intimidating the first few times. Goat hooves are nothing like horse hooves. That marshmallow center and crispy coating. One thing I do thats not in the vid is kinda nip the toe back a touch more than the rest. Just the point at the end gets rounded up a bit. Some people trim the marshmallow but I'm too lazy. No I admit it. I'm too scared of going a millimeter too far and laming the goat for a few days. I never really carve out the bottom of a horse hoof either. It looks easy but when I try it even with a new knife, my morgan's feet are way too hard and I just don't have the technique. With the goats and horses both, sometimes I just use the rasp and do a lot of shaping with that alone.

My goats all have long hooves this winter. 5 horses, 6 goats, and 2 parrots. If I did one foot per day I still couldn't keep up with the trimming.

[Nanno]

Good tip about rounding out the toe, Charlie Horse! That was something Cuzco taught me. His feet stayed almost completely self-trimmed his whole life because he walked very correctly until his old age. Even now he has some of the lowest-maintenance feet in my herd, and his feet are very rounded at the toe for an exceptionally efficient break over. I try to copy Cuzco's feet when trimming my other goats' hooves.

[DownUnder Gal]

I round out the toe too

[blackie's maiden]

Tried to view the video. Was there a link here? Can't find it now.

[Ms_Mudd]

I found it by searching oon youtube. It's a really helpful vid

[Nanno]

I believe this was the video in the first post: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0meTXheaaQ