Bare foot help please? *Also in Tack Room*

[nic85]

Morning all, I have a 21 year old 10.2hh Shetland who had his feet trimmed on December the 9th and he has been footsore since. He has been turned out everyday on poor grazing with a bit of hay and is in at night ( On livery yard) with a double netted eliminet (extremely small holes) he doesn't get any hard feed but a little Hi Fi lite in a snack ball.

His path way to his field is hard and stony and his field is not far off the same, he is usually sore after a trim according to his owner ( hes on loan) but this time my son rode him in the school (nice soft surface) on Sunday and he was fine in walk but lame in trot so he is now on box rest with having his front feet tubbed once a day with Epsom salts. His feet are a little warm but no digital pulse and he doesn't have Cushings.
I will add when we got him in August his feet were very overgrown, he had one trim and was fine, he goes every 16 weeks (my horse is every 8 and he does every other visit) and he is ridden on a variety of surfaces including a little road work, Im not sure if my farrier took too much toe off this time maybe but there really wasn't that much that came off! I have noticed his frogs are bit rubbish too, small and dry, is there anything I can do to help his feet?

Thanks in advance!!

 

[mightymammoth]

could he have thrush? this was something that happened to my horse, his frogs were very poor and the central sulcas very closed, his feet didn't smell thrushy. I was very concerned how sore he was almost stiff and I told my trimmer who was coming, the trimmer cleaned his cental sulcas and a load of white thrushy bits came out to my horror!

A cheap way to treat it is scrub with salt water, maybe a toothbrush or nail brush on his little hooves and get some "septi clense" from farm supply type shops and spray that into the crevices. There's lots of other ways to treat it as well though.