Cows have cloven hooves (i.e. hooves split into two toes) and toenails. In nature, cows wear down their toenails naturally by walking. Unfortunately, many cows today don’t do much walking around.

Even though the internet has created many problems, it’s also given us some great gifts. And one of those gifts is oddly satisfying videos. Whether it’s ASMR themes, cyst-popping appointments or ...

Nate Ranallo is a hoof trimmer in Wisconsin who works mostly with dairy cows. He walks us through how he cleans the hooves and removes a sizable screw from one and tiny rocks from another. He uses a ...

Farmers are shown how to trim the hooves of their cows at Red Hill in Limuru in 2016. [File, Standard] Hoof trimming is key in the prevention of lameness in animals such as cattle, sheep, goats, pigs ...

In one corner of the internet, professional trimmers grind and buff away at cow hooves to the delight of millions of spellbound social media users. By Emmett Lindner There are many paths to internet ...

RUPERT, Idaho — Flakes and shavings from a cow’s hoof fly through the air and ping off Drew Peterson’s protective plastic face shield while he gives a bovine pedicure. Guiding an electric grinder, he ...

Cattle pedicures, or more properly called hoof trimming, are not something the public, and even some cattle producers, think of as an essential part of a health care program for dairy and beef ...

They call him the hoof trimmer. On dairy farms in Berks County and beyond, Jim Taranto is known by the name of his occupation: trimmer of cows’ hooves. Taranto, 58, of Skippack, Montgomery County, ...