Cracked hoof...

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My 11.1 weshie came back off loan as a companion about 4weeks ago, and the farrier had been out the day before and done his feet very nicely. Only issue being one of his front hooves had cracked (about a week or two prior to farrier coming as we visited him about a week before we picked him up).
He's now been back a while and I want to start hacking him out lightly and working him on the lunge to get some of the extra weight off him and give him something to do.
Will this just make the crack worse though? Is there something I should be doing about it? I don't want the crack to get any worse but I also think he really should be doing some exercise to loose a few pounds! xD

He's not shod at all (never needed to be, he generally has good feet) is on grass but gets two very small feeds a day containing a joint supplement & biotin.
 
mine does groove too and it seems to work
I also use effol which is great and feed baileys lo cal balancer (i should stop raving about it soon otherwise ppl will think im advertising
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get your farrier to file at top of crack or burn to stop it travelling upwards and to cut out any rot below. trim every 6 weeks. cornucrescine onto crack and on coronet band every day. will take a few months to get rid of
 
As long as the hoof has been trimmed properly there should be no pronblem. The hoof needs to be rounded/bevelled at that point to take pressure off.
 
Will have a decent look at it tomorrow in the light - farrier may have done that anyway! They used a different farrier to us so don't know who it was. It doesn't appear to have got any worse in the last few weeks, I just want to play safe!
Thanks everyone!
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Our farrier should be due soon anyway so can double check then for certain!
 
Farrier will be able to care for it properly. My girl cut her coronet band which caused a bad crack in her foot. He nailed a copper plate along the crack to stop it opening at one stage, as well as glue. That was it at its worst though. She never lost the crack, but with correct farrier management it never caused any problem and she hacked, jumped and continued on her life as normal with no problems other than a hint of white line disease, again when the crack was at its worse.
 
You farrier should put a groove above the crack, it stops it from going any further causing damage, Mine are always cracking.
 
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