MudMudGloriousMud
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Sorry, this may be a bit long - please do tell me if I'm rambling!! 
My filly is a mistreated/neglect girl, born May 2011, so not quite 2. I traced her breeder (via the passport) and she was sold as a yearling, up to date on feet/worming and in good health.
She came to me emaciated, with a skin condition, snotty eyes and nose and horrendous feet.
I am slowly getting the weight on her, had her feet done by my (ex) farrier and have got her looking much better.
However I wasn't happy with the job done by the farrier (he is married to the person I bought the filly from) and when I couldn't get hold of him to come back and sort the imbalance he left on her, I went via the vets and have managed to squeeze onto the books of a farrier they use & recommend in their practice.
He came out today and has done a lovely job on both the girls feet, I'm really pleased, both with how she behaved and also with how he trimmed her and explained everything to me.
When M came to me she was very pigeon toed, but almost wide in front, and she dragged her near fore.
The farrier explained that her fetlocks, especially the NF, have an imbalance that tilts her to the outside of the hoof, and she also has a slight 'bow' to both pasterns. She is also long through the pastern.
I have spoken to her breeders tonight who have emailed me some pictures of her as a foal, they said that she was slightly toed in on the off fore from birth, which had been corrected with regular trimming, but that her NF was completely straight, so this deviation in the fetlock, and the laxing/bowing in the pastern has happened in the 7 months between them selling her, and my buying her.
Basically what I am asking is -
1) Is she likely to 'straighten' now she is back to being regularly trimmed and on a decent diet?
2) Will her long pasterns, the deviation in them and her fetlock joint mean that she has a higher propensity to lameness
3) Is there anything I can use or feed to help her strengthen at all?
Thank you so much for reading through all my waffling, and for any advice you can give!
Mel
Oh, ps, the farrier said she has nice hard feet, and the huge event line about 1/3 down her feet will grow out without causing too much of an issue.
My filly is a mistreated/neglect girl, born May 2011, so not quite 2. I traced her breeder (via the passport) and she was sold as a yearling, up to date on feet/worming and in good health.
She came to me emaciated, with a skin condition, snotty eyes and nose and horrendous feet.
I am slowly getting the weight on her, had her feet done by my (ex) farrier and have got her looking much better.
However I wasn't happy with the job done by the farrier (he is married to the person I bought the filly from) and when I couldn't get hold of him to come back and sort the imbalance he left on her, I went via the vets and have managed to squeeze onto the books of a farrier they use & recommend in their practice.
He came out today and has done a lovely job on both the girls feet, I'm really pleased, both with how she behaved and also with how he trimmed her and explained everything to me.
When M came to me she was very pigeon toed, but almost wide in front, and she dragged her near fore.
The farrier explained that her fetlocks, especially the NF, have an imbalance that tilts her to the outside of the hoof, and she also has a slight 'bow' to both pasterns. She is also long through the pastern.
I have spoken to her breeders tonight who have emailed me some pictures of her as a foal, they said that she was slightly toed in on the off fore from birth, which had been corrected with regular trimming, but that her NF was completely straight, so this deviation in the fetlock, and the laxing/bowing in the pastern has happened in the 7 months between them selling her, and my buying her.
Basically what I am asking is -
1) Is she likely to 'straighten' now she is back to being regularly trimmed and on a decent diet?
2) Will her long pasterns, the deviation in them and her fetlock joint mean that she has a higher propensity to lameness
3) Is there anything I can use or feed to help her strengthen at all?
Thank you so much for reading through all my waffling, and for any advice you can give!
Mel
Oh, ps, the farrier said she has nice hard feet, and the huge event line about 1/3 down her feet will grow out without causing too much of an issue.
