feet and leg experts, have a look opinions pls(large photos!)

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Just looking for peoples opinions on his feet and general leg and feet conformation thankyou
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First thing that struck me is quite small hooves. My boy has small hooves and never caused any problems in 8 yrs.

I'm no expert, I expect someone with more knowledge will be along shortly.

Jane
 
He looks low at the heel. Has he been without shoes for a while. My old shire/tb used to get like this if the farrier did not cut his toes back. In the end I opted for natural balance shoes.
 
The front feet look better balanced than the hind. But generally I would say that they are not too bad. My farrier would probably extend the heels of the shoe a bit further out the back to give a bit more support . What breed is your horse?
 
Looks like quite a large stamp of horse on quite a small hoof, IMO
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My farrier would probably put a wider shoe on to give the horse a bigger 'footprint' allowing them a larger surface area over which to spread the weight, and he would probably also shorten and roll the toe of the front feet as he looks a little behind at the knee- although that could be the angle of the photo? Nice type though- where is a pic of his face??
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ETA example of the wide shoe and rolled toe thingy (interestingly its a photo of the 'best shod horse' at Badminton this year!
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Has he had laminitis..... the rings round his hooves would suggest this as they are wavy???

Feet look poor and dumpy, and has been said, not the feet for the size of horse.

I assume he is sound and well now... but what did he have the eggbars on for??
 
They are well shod feet IMHO. I woudld like to see a bit more heel support, and would probably have pulled back toes with quarter clips, as suggested above, but certainly nothing "wrong" with how he has been shod
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Nothing wrong with small feet, Goddy had tiny feet and I never had a problem with soundness in him at all
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hi, here's hoping that i can help you. your horses feet look as if they are probably getting towards your next farrier visit. foot and leg a conformation looks ok and angle of pastern to ground looks to within the normal range. the only thing that i would do is ask your farrier to leave a little more heal on the hind feet so that the bulb of his heel is not connecting the ground, as he will get bruised heels. the front feet are the opposite and need to have the heels taken down slightly. if the heels of the front feet are left too long the horse in ultimately walking on his toes, which is not desirable if he has had laminitus. but overall things look good. make sure your horse in getting all his range of vitamins and minerals, as the horn at the bottom of the foot looks quite flacky and prone to splitting. does he lose his shoes? i find NAF's pink powder very good for this as it contains every thing a horse should need and works out very economical, and your not giving loads of hard feed to disguise it. hope i have managed to be of some help. your horse looks lovely, you should be very proud.
 
Feet are pretty rubbish.

They're are long and flat, but the farrier's dumped the toe (rasped if off) to make them appear shorter. And smaller than they should be. Dumping the toe is however the correct management for laminitic feet (releives pressure on the toe)

The heels are fairly long but quite underrun - follow the line of the heel and look how sloped it is. It may be because they are obviously due a trim soon, but i suspect he also have underruns heels in general.

The backs are flared and cracking, probably from a hoof walll infection. It looks like the shoe is too short and doesn't extend far enough back, giving little heel support (though it's hard to tell from the pictures shown). They also need balancing - the outside wall is longer and more flare than the inside, though that tallys with his slight cow-hocked ness.

I'd be interested in seeing photo's of his sole to see what state his fronts and heels are in, and photoss of his heels from behind to asess heel balance. I'm guessing his hind frogs are probaly wide and fairly healthy, but his fronts are narrow and contracted.

The feet problems are easily fixed with correct triming and nutrition and I could easily sort his feet in a couple of months with barefeet, but I don't know enough about shoeing techniques to suggest how to fix them with shoes.
 
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