Barefoot Peeps - Advice / opinions Please!

[CBFan]

Hi! My boy is due a visit from our lovely trimmer next Sunday (6 weeks) However, Unless I am very much mistaken, he has nothing to take off! On her last visit she barely took anything off and while I enjoy our chats and value the work she does, I could kinda do ith saving the £48 this time... what do you think? I know it is hard to tell from photos... I can roll the edges myself and do as and when anyway... I will of course book for 6 weeks time...

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[nirikina]

Those look like super tough feet, and they seem to be trimming themselves. I would agree there's nothing to take off. Can you e-mail those pictures to your trimmer?

 

[cptrayes]

I'd leave them alone, but there is nothing like seeing the horse in the flesh for a true assessment.

You look like you have addressed some diet problems - I think I spot growing out bullnoses and also a lack of concavity which, judging from the radius of cracks around the point of the frog, is suddenly going to change. Don't worry if that sole cracks away, it wants to.

 

[CBFan]

Those look like super tough feet, and they seem to be trimming themselves. I would agree there's nothing to take off. Can you e-mail those pictures to your trimmer?

Thanks... yes I plan to email her tomorrow and call for a chat too...

His horn is really tough, good quality but I am having problems with footiness - just awaiting results of a forage analysis and diet plan to come through to see if that helps...

 

[CBFan]

CPtrayes, we cross posted! yep I appreciate that it is best to see them in the flesh.. My trimmer travels quite a distance to us so I'll rather not waste her journey..and yes, I have changed some elements of his diet - added magnesium, brewers yeast and biotin, cut out alfa-alfa but I'd quite like to see what forage plus have to say.

I think he did have very slight bullnosing and yes, his hinds especially have very much improved concavity, his fronts are still pretty flat but we do have an improved depth of sole... and the change in his frogs is pretty impressive too - just waiting for his front ones to recover after I had to treat him for thrush

 

[criso]

Talk to her and see what she says. I've agreed with my trimmer, a 12 week interval and even then she hardly does anything.

 

[brucea]

I have one who had his first trim in 6 months today - it took 2 minutes with the rasp and was only so I don;t keep tearing my hands on the sharp bits!

And it was only the fronts, the backs don;t get touched.


Just looking at the photos - nothing there that a good 4 hours in the woodland tracks and roads wouldn't sort out.

 

[CBFan]

I often have to take his front toes back myself (every 2 to 3 weeks) but like you Brucea the hinds hardly need any attention at all... now that we have the flare under control (the outside wall was terrible this time last year, and although there is still a little, we have a much tighter white line )

I think he intitially needed the attention at 6 week intervals but now we have done a lot of the remedial work we might be able to make visits less frequent... although that said, there might be more growth / less wear with summer approaching