12 week post shoe removal, how's he moving and how can I make it better?

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It's just about 12 weeks since my tb had his shoes removed and we began our rebuild of his sick hooves and overhaul of how he was moving. My 12 year old Daughter took this video of him today (which expains why it's not that good lol) and I wondered what barefooters would think of how he looks on the concrete and the stony yard?
I think there is room for a lot of improvement but I'm not too sure what else I should be doing.
He has 2 meals per day of Fast fibre, graze on, micronised linseed, copra meal and high fibre nuts to top dress. He has supplements added of pro-balance plus, Pro earth magnesium, equimins fibre digester, and msm which I split between his 2 feeds.
Getting him moving has been hit and miss due to his other lameness issues and treatments from the vet, Hopefully we are on the right track now and I have been able to hack him out in boots on the road this week and I have started schooling him from the ground in the menage. http://youtu.be/UaDRSbj3vnU
 
I've had unshod horses way back, but currently shoe. So am no expert but two things strike me:

1. Is that the actual speed the horse was moving at, or is it something to do with the camera (so slow)

2. I counted up and I think you are feeding, between actual feed and supplements, 9 or was it 10 different things? Why? And is that the norm for unshod horses? Or is it because of the other unspecified problems? My unshods just had the same feed as the shod ones (in those palmy days oats and home-made hay/straw chaff with linseed in the winter).
 
Rose Folly said:
2. I counted up and I think you are feeding, between actual feed and supplements, 9 or was it 10 different things? Why? And is that the norm for unshod horses?.
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It would depend on what the horse is doing, surely.

I have two BF that do just fine on oats and chaff, but the endurance horse, also BF, is an entirely different matter. :)

And yes, the video is in slow mo.
 
I'd like to see how he trots on concrete without a pessoa, but you look like he is doing just fine. He's hacking out, schooling, and landing flat or slightly heel first by the look of the one or two steps your daughter managed to capture :D

Is there any particular reason why you think he should be doing any different at this stage? To be riding consistently at 12 weeks into a sick foot rebuilt is goal achieved, for me.
 
Thank's for the replies. I should have said that actually it was only 7 weeks ago that he totally went bare in front and behind. It was just over 12 weeks ago that he went from straight bars to vettec plastic shoes in front.
The pessoa wasn't attached to his bit so it really was just hanging at his sides. (I'd just finished lunging and was too lazy to take it all off) But I accept that it is distracting.

My Daughter said afterwards "I didn't know you wanted me to film his front hooves?" lol!
But she's only 12 and does her best bless her.

I guess I am more just needing confirmation that he is going in the right direction and that I am not either expecting too much or not enough. I wondered if he should be getting less sensitive over the concrete by now but if not then I will stop worrying.
(Actually that's a lie.......I don't think I will ever stop worrying about one thing or another)
 
Seven weeks? You are doing fantastically well with a horse which had shoe-sick feet, you should be very proud of all the work that you have done to make it happen. He didn't look especially sensitive on the concrete to me, but 7 weeks is no time to get to walking on stones, so don't worry. As long as you have steadily increasing ability, you are on the right track :)
 
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