Following on from earlier thread - photos of C's feet

I disagree - my horse's feet certainly LOOK a lot better after one shoeing, but there's an awful lot more to improving feet than simply making them look prettier. Getting under run heels back is not something you can do in a single trimming, I'm afraid. If your farrier has told you that he can, I'd be getting a new farrier.
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I find your post quite rude and very insulting.

You can disagree all you like, but I promise you that in my mare's case, my new farrier totally transformed my mares hooves during his first trim/shoeing.

I'm not talking about making her hooves 'prettier' either, anyone who has seen the photos that I do have, knows that it was nearly curtains for this horse. My new farrier has done nothing short of saving her, so no, I wont be changing him.

It's nothing to do with what he says that he can do and everything to do with what he has actually done.

I'm not knocking barefoot/unshod (I'm actually becoming very keen on it), I was just pointing out that the statement below is incorrect.

Unfortunately it will take a long time to significantly alter the shape with shoes on
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PS. Nocturnal, I hope that I haven't upset you by picking out this tiny part of your post. I do agree that it is true alot of the time, just not all the time because of what I have seen with my own eyes. :)
 
Sorry - came to this late

From the pictures - the walls are quite long and the horse needs a trim - a sympathetic one

The feet are long, and the heels are under-run. The central sulcus also looks loke it should really open out a bit more.

I don't know any shoeing that can help with this, but it will look better for the excess wall being taken off.

It's not all bad - there is quite a lot to like about these feet - but you should also think about the relationship of the point of the frog to the toe, there is a little more hoof in that space than I'd like to see.

An abscess can partially drain and then cover over with enough sole to close in the rest of the abscess which keeps fulminating - so if you think it's still a problem get the vet back out.
 
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Hi, Yes she needs a serious revamp and some new laboutins, but first bin the animalintex.
Poultice with a mix of sugar and Iodine onto some padding, tape on with duct/gaffer tape and be generous with tape. Leave on for 24 hours [48 hrs if its a wild unhandled 2 yr old!] The sugar and Iodine will draw out pus and soreness and leave the foot good and hard for farrier to trim, as opposed to a soggy mess after a wet poultice.

I haven't used animalintex for many years now and I don't miss that horrid soggy foot!! [And I've got over a hundred neddies so do a bit of poulticing!!
be lucky
 
Meowy Catmas said:
PS. Nocturnal, I hope that I haven't upset you by picking out this tiny part of your post. I do agree that it is true alot of the time, just not all the time because of what I have seen with my own eyes. :)
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Only just seen this - nope, not upset in the least :). I'm sure it depends on what was wrong with your horses' feet, as to how long it would take to fix.
 
Just a little update, after seeing the vet yesterday, who found bruising. Clover was buted and advised to be poulticed once a day and rested for 4 days to see if it was only a bruise. Today she is looking free-er and more comfortable, which is probably only due to the bute but its nice to see her looking less in pain.
If she is not improved by middle-end of next week, vet will be back to xray/nerve block etc.

Where he exposed the bruise, he also made a little dig. Today this was a little bigger so maybe there will be an abscess up there? Not a lot to speak of in the poultice however. But anyway now we play the waiting game.
 
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Just a little update, after seeing the vet yesterday, who found bruising. Clover was buted and advised to be poulticed once a day and rested for 4 days to see if it was only a bruise. Today she is looking free-er and more comfortable, which is probably only due to the bute but its nice to see her looking less in pain.
If she is not improved by middle-end of next week, vet will be back to xray/nerve block etc.

Where he exposed the bruise, he also made a little dig. Today this was a little bigger so maybe there will be an abscess up there? Not a lot to speak of in the poultice however. But anyway now we play the waiting game.
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Fingers crossed she improves and you don't need to x-ray :)
 
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