Bulge in hoof wall....

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I noticed today as my lad was scoffing his dinner and I was sat on the tack box alongside him that on his left fore he has a bulge outwards on his hoof. The only reason I noticed it was because of the way the light shone and the angle of where I was sat. I have never noticed it before! (I know, I'm a terrible mother - his feet get picked out daily and legs washed every day and still didn't notice!). In all fairness it's not that big but definitely a bulge. Does anyone know what this indicates? No real change to lifestyle....
 
Mine has this in his hinds, he was diagnosed with negative angle pedal bones by x-rays, the bulging is known as bull-nosing. If you do a search on this veterinary forum there was a thread about bull-nosing. If you want to see my pics I'll go and change my fb settings back to public so you can see x-rays and feet. Is your horse lame at all?
 
sorry ester, I didn't take any pics, will try and get some tomorrow. No he hasn't been lame at all, he was lame a few months ago but that was a kick to the knee not foot related. Pinklilly, that sounds like it would be extremely painful! It's not a very big bulge (hence I hadn't noticed it before) and about half way down the hoof wall...

Just to add - after googling some images, it's not the whole hoof wall that's bulging, I would say it's the size of a 50 pence piece roughly
 
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:) I was just having trouble picturing exactly which bit of the wall it was on, it doesn't sound like a bullnosed hoof, they look like this:

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sorry pic is huge!
 
A photo would be good, but sounds like it might just have damaged the coronary band (small cut or an abases bursting out) and the hoof the grow were the damage occurred did not grow normally. If it is that will grow out fine.
 
Thanks everyone. Definitely not bull nosing having looked at online pics and pinklilly's - that appears to be the whole hoof! This is literally a small area, as mentioned above about 50p size. I would have thought my farrier would have noticed it as it's already half way down the hoof?!

Moggy89 I'm thinking it must be coronet damage but he's never had an abscess in his life. It's very strange...will keep a close eye on it and ask my farrier to check when he's out next week. He has such good feet too, just not come across it before!
 
If it was corontet damage he may already have noticed it but nothing to worry about. But do ask him as he will know best. Fingers crossed it will be nothing to worry about :-)
 
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