Doodle Update 1 year bare!

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It has now been a whole year since I spat my dummy out and removed her shoes against the wishes of the vet and farrier. The farrier has been replaced but the vet remains ;).

Poorly (as it was) near fore before:
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Now:
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Before:
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Now:
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Before:
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Now:
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Offside:
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We still have a bit to do, frogs are the ultimate battle and we're a bit thrushy currently, so thrush treatment and more work to try and get them to continue to widen and touch the floor would be good :).

However she's sound and in as much work as I can do with three on the go :o, no boots are now needed and she's a happy bunny on all but sharp stony surfaces!

Thank you each and everyone of you lovely people who have helped and supported me, we both appreciate all the advise that has been given over the past year :).
 
I'm actually surprised how much more her heels have come back since I last saw them, the off fore looks particularly good
 
Fantastic.

If it helps, is taken me nearly three years to find a solution to my QHx's tendency to get a soggy central sulcus. I started Red Horse Paste a month ago and I am completely sold on it.
 
Andalucian said:
Clap clap. I bet he's grateful to you, well done.
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Ahem she is a very pretty lady actually :lol:, but yes I think she's thankful to have nice not hurting feet!

ycbm said:
Fantastic.

If it helps, is taken me nearly three years to find a solution to my QHx's tendency to get a soggy central sulcus. I started Red Horse Paste a month ago and I am completely sold on it.
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Is that the field paste? I've heard very good things about it, might go order a tub :).
 
Yes field paste. Beautiful smell and one foot completely clear for the first time I can ever remember in winter, and the other well on the way. Seriously good stuff, and I never normally recommend expensive 'horse' products.
 
tda said:
Good, you'll end up being super aware of hooves, and automatically look down when someone says look at that lovely horse!
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Yep I'm that weird hoof and diet obsessed person now :o, the girls at the yard gave up when they found me kneeling on the floor taking pictures of feet :lol:. It's the first thing I look at now!

ycbm said:
Yes field paste. Beautiful smell and one foot completely clear for the first time I can ever remember in winter, and the other well on the way. Seriously good stuff, and I never normally recommend expensive 'horse' products.
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Purchased some, if it doesn't work I'll be sending you the bill ;), now I just need her mud rash to clear up too the joys of a Cushings horse I think!
 
Looking amazing. I also just bought the field paste for a new one we have who has rather similar feet to her now feet with long narrow frogs.

Well done for having the guts to stick with it.
 
FfionWinnie said:
Looking amazing. I also just bought the field paste for a new one we have who has rather similar feet to her now feet with long narrow frogs.

Well done for having the guts to stick with it.
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I'm now very excited about receiving the field paste! It wasn't too difficult to stick with it when she was almost instantly sounder :o, plus anyone can see how much healthier her feet are now (well maybe asides from me ex farrier :o).
 
AlexHyde said:
I'm now very excited about receiving the field paste! It wasn't too difficult to stick with it when she was almost instantly sounder :o, plus anyone can see how much healthier her feet are now (well maybe asides from me ex farrier :o).
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Get a box of disposable gloves would be my advice. It's a bit minging. Does smell interesting tho.

I still think it's a bit of a thought to go for it and stick with it tho and I've had loads of them now. Especially hard when the professionals are advising you to not do it as well. I've just taken Cyprian's shoes off and I am already so much happier with his feet. Even though they are chipping like mad currently. Eep.
 
Will get my mum to grab me some as I think we're running low.

Yeah it was a bit of a leap in the first place but then the abscess she blew out of her near side kind of forced the issue. I was ok with her horn quality as she'd been on a good diet for at least 18 months prior to taking them off so we didn't get too much chipping, more where the abscess had made a cavity rather than anywhere else.

Glad's he's improving, but don't you know WBs can't cope without shoes ;) or is that just TB's :lol:...
 
Hmm yes I've heard that ;) Dutch is some sort of warmblood sports pony (he has feet like Doodles are now) and he's been coping fine since I took them off a couple of months ago. In fact I would like them to wear down a bit faster! He hates the farrier and has to be sedated so he really approves of his new life style.

Cyprian so far is completely sound on all surfaces and a little footy on sharp stones. The best bit being he's no longer slipping around all over the place which is the main reason I took them off now. He's got excellent frogs and concavity (which I have learned recently from a couple of posters talking about it is probably due to being on a surface nearly all his life!). Happily because he's actually not really 17hh, Daisy's renegades fit him so I've got them if necessary.
 
Dutch is probably not far off Doodle's breeding to be honest as I think a lot of the sports ponies have a good dose of Arab blood in them :). Doodle prefers her feet a bit longer than ideal, but that's probably to stop the frog touching the ground, she's not a fan of frogs on the ground :o, but they are slowly improving mm by mm, so maybe in another 12 months they'll have hit the floor!

We are super smug when shod horses are slipping about and we mooch past with the naked feet brigade :lol:. Is that like me saying Skylla will stay under 16hh, or does he just have dainty feet :D?
 
I must look up his breeding. His passport says he is a Netherlands New Forest Pony (Dutch is indeed genuinely er Dutch in origin!). I don't know what one of them is but he's a far cry from our NF ponies :D

Lol he probably has normal feet for his size and Daisy has enormous feet for hers. He wears all her tack and rugs. She is 14.2 and he is 17hh. Most of the 17hh is his giraffe neck tho really...:D
 
There's some nice driving Dutch new forests, think one of rara's greys was one too. They are technicallly nf but very sports bred so they look like small warmbloods.
 
AlexHyde said:
Yep I'm that weird hoof and diet obsessed person now :o, the girls at the yard gave up when they found me kneeling on the floor taking pictures of feet :lol:. It's the first thing I look at now!



Purchased some, if it doesn't work I'll be sending you the bill ;), now I just need her mud rash to clear up too the joys of a Cushings horse I think!
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Brilliant especially as she has cushings too. I just wish more people would follow your lead, maybe your post will help.
 
LD&S said:
Brilliant especially as she has cushings too. I just wish more people would follow your lead, maybe your post will help.
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In fairness to my vet and farrier it was the cushings and generally terribly wonky feet which made them so reluctant, I'm glad she proved them wrong though!
It has certainly had ripples through our local circle, I think we've had a further three horses now tested positive for PPID from Doodle's diagnosis and very few symptoms. Plus a couple have removed shoes and tried naked feet along with diet changes :), sometimes you can show people just by doing.

I'm not fanatical about keeping the bare, if they need shoes for something specific I would shoe again, but I'd always give them a break and keep a much closer eye on their general hoof shape and health.
 
He's happy she's sound and happy :), still thinks they have room for improvement but has been fairly quiet about it otherwise, can't argue with lame in shoes, sound without :o.
 
AlexHyde said:
Interesting didn't know the dutch had their own NF's!
Aww many he's only 14.2hh really and it's just an optical illusion :lol:.
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Yes absolutely he is just like Skylla. Looks a lot bigger than he is ...

ester said:
There's some nice driving Dutch new forests, think one of rara's greys was one too. They are technicallly nf but very sports bred so they look like small warmbloods.
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He doesn't just look like a warmblood he rides and acts like one too. There are no native characteristics left in Dutch. He doesn't *do* being out in wind, rain, snow, dark...although he doesn't really like being in either...
 
yup sounds about right! hampshire new forests wouldn't be anywhere near hot enough for FEI driving, the european versions very much are, much to the consternation of the hampshire lot when this is pointed out. iirc one of those doing the indoor FEI driving at olympia as a leader was technically a forester.
 
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