Advice re lameness. Also in vet.

Nickles1973

Nickles1973

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My horse came in on saturday evening after hooning around and had pulled his ns front shoe off. He seemed a bit lame but this is usual for him after losing a shoe, as he has very sensitive flat tb feet. I kept him in yesterday and managed to get a farrier out to put his shoe back on on Easter Sunday and hoped that all would be right today. He seems sound in walk on the lunge but is definately lame in trot on the right rein. There is a little heat in his fetlock/hoof but none if any swelling. Do you think this sounds like he's done something serious or do you reckon it's just a bit of a pull and bruising from yanking the shoe off?
I have kept him in again today just in case. Any advice is appreciated, thanks
 
My friend's horse did they same thing (also TB). She's had her off work for 8 weeks now and is only just being able to be shoed again this Friday. They kept it bandaged and clean.

I would try keeping him in another day or two and then just turn out in the day as the ground's soft anyway due to weather.
 
Sounds like bruising, but being a TB with flat feet, this could lead onto an abcess!! I would keep your horse in, and hot poultice said foot. This will bring out the bruising, and if there is one, will also bring out the abcess. If nothing has come out in a few days, then call farrier and ask him to see if he can find an abcess... a good farrier should find one, and will dig it out.
Did all the clenches come off with the shoe, or did some snap in the hoof wall? If there is heat in the foot, and no obvious swelling on the leg, I would say its bruising/abcess!!
 
The shoe was found with all the nails attached to the pieces of hoof that were broken off! The farrier has just about managed to nail the shoe back on as so much hoof is missing. Tbh as is was Easter Sunday and our usual Farrier is away in Germany I had to call out someone that we hadn't used before. If there is no improvement I think I'll give our usual farrier a call to get his opinion.
 
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