Kino
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Hello! Long time lurker here, really appreciating all the past and present barefoot threads and would love some advice.
Long story short, took hind shoes off mid October 22 followed by front shoes Nov 22. We were doing quite well but the last 3 weeks he has been reluctant to move apart from in walk, unless in the field where he is v happy to lunge and moves well. We do have a school, it's rubber strip but there are some decent chunks and to my / the physio/ the saddlers eye he is going a bit stabby toe first when asked to trot in there. No obvious one limb lameness.
I'm under no illusions - his feet are far from perfect and there could be so much causing this but specifically he has a decent angle change growing through on his fronts and an event line / ring on all four hooves from when shoes were removed. And the interesting thing is that the reluctance sort of coincides with when that line hit the ground on the heels in the fronts. Hooves are sometimes warm / hot ONLY on the event line (but no pulses). Has anyone had any experience of this before - poss with mild laminitic cases as the bad hoof grows out?
Obviously it's been horrifically wet, but soles have been holding up well, far firmer / thicker as far as I can tell without x-ray vision and concavity miles better than when shoes came off. Frog is a bit thrushy (esp RF) but nothing really deep / crevicey (treating it ofc). Only get a reaction poking him with the hoof pick around the heel bulbs themselves.
Okay that was long story only slightly shorter, sorry! Really grateful to anyone who reads and has any advice
badly taken pics mostly show progress from shoes off to 27/03/23 apart from RH where I appear to have lost March's photo so you have February's instead! March is 4 days post trim (by farrier)
Long story short, took hind shoes off mid October 22 followed by front shoes Nov 22. We were doing quite well but the last 3 weeks he has been reluctant to move apart from in walk, unless in the field where he is v happy to lunge and moves well. We do have a school, it's rubber strip but there are some decent chunks and to my / the physio/ the saddlers eye he is going a bit stabby toe first when asked to trot in there. No obvious one limb lameness.
I'm under no illusions - his feet are far from perfect and there could be so much causing this but specifically he has a decent angle change growing through on his fronts and an event line / ring on all four hooves from when shoes were removed. And the interesting thing is that the reluctance sort of coincides with when that line hit the ground on the heels in the fronts. Hooves are sometimes warm / hot ONLY on the event line (but no pulses). Has anyone had any experience of this before - poss with mild laminitic cases as the bad hoof grows out?
Obviously it's been horrifically wet, but soles have been holding up well, far firmer / thicker as far as I can tell without x-ray vision and concavity miles better than when shoes came off. Frog is a bit thrushy (esp RF) but nothing really deep / crevicey (treating it ofc). Only get a reaction poking him with the hoof pick around the heel bulbs themselves.
Okay that was long story only slightly shorter, sorry! Really grateful to anyone who reads and has any advice
badly taken pics mostly show progress from shoes off to 27/03/23 apart from RH where I appear to have lost March's photo so you have February's instead! March is 4 days post trim (by farrier)
vet is hopefully coming next week now to take foot x-rays to double check there's nothing sinister & will also ask her about the soft tissue possibility.
