Bruised sole?

[Mince Pie]

My TB has been barefoot since at least March, possibly earlier. She has always been slightly 'footy' coming across the yard from the field, but I have put that down to it being because it is a level hard surface with the odd stone as she has hacked down a gravel track with no problems.
Yesterday the farrier came, took off the excess and at my request rolled the toe for the first time. I then took her into the school for a short lunge session. She was more 'footy' than normal walking across the yard and for the first couple of minutes in the school although was fine after that.
Today she was very 'footy' coming in from the field and not very happy about walking on in the school, seems to be the off fore that is sore. There is no heat in the foot or leg and I don't think the digital pulse is up although I have never been very good at taking it so could be wrong. So I was thinking could it be a bruised sole?
Obviously if I need to put shoes on her I will but I would really like for her to be barefoot if possible. I have Keratex to put on her feet if I need to. Her feet were fine over the dry spell we had and she was happy about coming in (yard from field to stables is about 15 feet) however it has been raining pretty constantly for the last 3 weeks so assume her feet are getting soft again.
I know diet is important but at the moment I am trying to put condition on her so that is my main concern, she is on a low sugar diet anyway because I don't want her to get 'hot'.
So any ideas?

 

[brightmount]

Sounds more like your farrier could have trimmed back to the live tissue, especially if he took her toes back for the first time - did you see any pink in what was coming off, or what she's left with? If I were you, I'd give him a ring and explain she's sore ... he may say it's because he had to trim her quite hard this time, or he may remember seeing bruising of the sole.

I would be inclined to give her some bute for a few days if she's had a hard trim.

 

[Mince Pie]

Yes that was my thought. She was quite happy to walk out today, still a bit footy but much better than yesterday. I left the choice up to her as to whether she wanted to stay in or go out and she came straight out. I am in 2 minds about using this farrier again, on one hand he made her sore but on the other it was a very different trim and on the other perhaps next time she will be fine as he won't have to take too much off the toe because the roll is now there?