Recent content by richjpeckham

I am in the south and my farrier now charges £20 for a trim and £60 for shoes. Unfortunately fuel has sky rocketed so I wouldn't say this is unfair.

Wow, brilliant replies, Thanks a lot!

I often browse through horsemart but I went on Your Horse Classifieds the other day and there were some really good horses on there. Has anyone else been on there?

where are you?

Excellent, your local authority is a bit more relaxed than mine - sunny Dorset! Good luck and happy builing.

Mmmm, did your local planning office tell you this, if so get it in writing, you don't want to have to tear it down if a retrospective application has to be put in and gets rejected! Either that or make it a mobile stable (on skids) just has to be moveable in case the PO sniffs around...

We built some of our own, very satisfying and yo can have the door where you ike! LOL Are you getting planning permission?

Looks good, wouldn't worry too much about the weight, regular exercise and restrictd grazing will sort that out. Could do with a it more shoulder maybe - what you gonna do with him?

My questions were not orientated to perform an online diagnosis, just to give a glimmer of hope to somebody who is obviousl worried silly, but as said, the vet wil do their best tomorrow. Good luck and I hope it's not too serious. I would try not to worry too much now, you've done all you can...

You may be able to tell a bit from how ollie's acting, will he put weight on it, if not is the limp quite bad?

It sounds like the puncture is directly below the pedal bone, hopefully it wasn't the bone that stopped the nail going deeper. The tip of the flexor tendon lies pretty much on top of the frog, so it may have been this that stopped the nail - hopefully without causing the flexor any damage. An...

How did he walk? How close to the point of the frog was it?

Lets try and figure out what may be damaged, as Madhossy asked, how long was the nail and how far was it in? Also if you looked at the frog as a capital A, how close to the tip was it?

Yes, I agree. You can also, of course get the whole hoof boot, this may expedite your ability to exercise him.

As far as the insurance goes, any potential ligament damage is a side effect of the injury, make sure the vet makes it clear to your insurers that it was a nail in the frog - ie, not a direct ligament/tendon injury. ThEse sLippery insurers will try and wriggle out of allsorts, but if they paid...