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We have sent a honest message about what we think the best option is, we will see what the loaner says now. If we do end up PTS then hopefully it can be done there I really don't want to travel anywhere with the risk of her going down in the trailer and injuring herself/someone else.

Yes this is along the lines of what I thinking... I think the girl is hoping she can be a happy hacker, but I don't think that anyone would want a horse that isn't sound and has sarcoids...

So my family (parents) own the horse which is a 17 year old warmblood cross, previously competed/hunted etc. She has been on loan with a lovely girl for 6/7 years, and all was fine the horse was happy/healthy and competing successfully, about 3-4 years ago the mare injured her check ligament...

Thanks it has always been an uphill battle with his weight, he never develops the cresty neck that would really worry me but he likes to store it on the top of his butt and behind his shoulder. Here is the chunky monkey yesterday: And what I see as his more ideal weight, I keep this...

He is a good doer and while was out of work piled on the pounds, I have got around 80Kg off round his middle according to the weigh tape but still need to get some more off. I would body condition score him closer to 4 than 3 at the moment and he still has about an inch more over his ribs than...

That is pretty interesting my other horse she has one foot more upright than the other it would be interesting to see what would happen with her. She is on loan at the moment though and she is kept shod. When I have her back I might try taking her shoes off too, she is more sensitive than him...

Thank you :) I did think very carefully about it before deciding to leave the shoes off and I was lucky enough to find 3 very supportive farriers who have given me lots of tips to help. I did look at Rockley farm and how they let the feet suit the horse rather than trying to produce a prescribed...

So these feet belong to my 9 year old Welsh Section D, he was off work over the summer so in June he had the front shoes taken off, he was already barefoot behind and had been for about 6 months. He had an injury in the field and upon watching him trot up the vet suggested we should put shoes...

One day. Then before that he was trimmed 5-6wks before, he seems to grow a lot of foot. He was sound and working straight after being trimmed even walking on the stoney track to the field & back.

I will have a poke around later, I haven't noticed any soreness and this is the biggest wimp horse in the world still it doesn't hurt, plus the fields are getting wetter so may increase chances of thrush etc..

I don't think they are as concave as they need to be, they are definately getting less flat though -> it is a work in progress... I think they are more concave than the pictures show since they were filled with dirt at the time of the photos and they are just quick ones off my iphone.

The farriers seemed to feel thought that trimming regularly (5wks) and rebalancing the wear would be the best thing for him though since if left one wall get progressively more upright and the other gets progressively more flared.

Strangely this is what the farriers felt... all of whom were suprisingly positive about him being and staying barefoot.

So a bit of backstory: These feet belong to my 8 year old welsh section D, he has been barefoot behind since September 2011 and barefoot in front since May 2012 when he was out of work due to an injury. He went barefoot since both the farrier and I felt it was pointless to stick a shoe on when...