I have a horse who has a dropped sole on 1 front foot through stress laminitis, has anyone had a similar problem and what have you done about it? Horse is 22 and high mileage...
Stress laminitis - humph. Not everyone agrees that such a thing happens.
What is often missed is the early stages of laminitis. Stretched white line, growth rings etc. This plus a long foot is the road to lots of trouble.
Current rehab had 'dropped soles' all the way round. These are improving through careful management of diet and a barefoot management routine.
High mileage and age will not impact on 'dropped sole' excepting that when horses reach maturity they become more sensitive to sugar and therefore more prone to laminitis. The main cause will be management.
I had a pony with quite severe pedal bone rotation in both front feet. It was hard to tell if that had caused the dropped soles, or whether he had always had flat feet and was predisposed to laminitis.
Because the pedal bone had not foundered (ie it had rotated but not sunk downwards) the pony was carefully managed by my farrier and had plastic glue on shoes at vast expense. He came completely sound after 2 months or so, and after a year was back competing.
