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ann_of_loxley

  • Joined Jun 2018
  • Cumbria UK
Best Hoof Shears?
« on: August 08, 2018, 10:33:48 pm »
Best hoof shears for sheep?  Seems to be loads...vary in all sorts of prices.  Don't wanna waste money but also don't want to splash out loads if I don't have to! 

bj_cardiff

  • Joined Feb 2017
  • Carmarthenshire
Re: Best Hoof Shears?
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2018, 12:26:39 pm »
I buy the cheap nettex ones and they seem to last a couple of years. I did have more expensive ones but found they only lasted a couple of years too. I sent them off to be sharpened and they cost the same to sharopen as a new pair and lasted half as long..

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Best Hoof Shears?
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2018, 01:33:36 pm »
I use a knife, not shears.  One of the curved ones you can get at the agrimerchants.
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Nelson International

  • Joined Aug 2017
Re: Best Hoof Shears?
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2018, 03:04:10 pm »
As a left hander, I found regular hoof shears to be a real pain, and similarly now just use a regular penknife that I found works very well to my needs. 

daveh

  • Joined Nov 2008
  • South Northamptonshire
Re: Best Hoof Shears?
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2018, 01:37:20 pm »

I also use the 'cheapo' Nettex shears and find they work well for me. I find the traditional type shears awkward to use. I have quite a few sheep by my cheapo's have lasted quite a few years. But I do clean them with disinfectant spray after every sheep they are used on.


Regards, Dave

pharnorth

  • Joined Nov 2013
  • Cambridgeshire
Re: Best Hoof Shears?
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2018, 07:29:19 pm »
Nettex. Seem to do the job for a year or two. Then I get new ones. Too mean to throw away the old ones 'incase' then confuse them with the new ones and wonder why life is so hard.

Buttermilk

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: Best Hoof Shears?
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2018, 08:10:13 pm »
Nettex. Seem to do the job for a year or two. Then I get new ones. Too mean to throw away the old ones 'incase' then confuse them with the new ones and wonder why life is so hard.
Not mean, frugal!

BenBhoy

  • Joined Aug 2011
  • Nottinghamshire
Re: Best Hoof Shears?
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2018, 08:25:06 pm »
Do away with them. If they not lame, leave feet alone. If they are lame inspect & treat, most likely bathe & AB. If overgrown/shelly then cull .

Foobar

  • Joined Mar 2012
  • South Wales
Re: Best Hoof Shears?
« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2018, 11:24:09 am »
The best hoof shears are no shears.  Stop trimming feet!

 

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