Hoof question

[chaps89]

Saw a horse today where something odd had happened to it's feet and just thought I'd ask here if anyone had come across anything similar before. (Purely in the interest of learning more)
Horse has chips/small cracks all around all of her feet.
Following some charging about the field tonight, the chipped bits were all lifted up, anything from a few degrees to 90 degrees.
I don't have pics (not my horse) but what would cause it and how would you rectify it? (I have some ideas but wondering how off the mark I was and know we have some people who really know their stuff about feet on here!)

Cracks not dissimilar to in this pic, the bottom chips had all lifted up.
https://images.app.goo.gl/MZFPCFvbmoNyZhTP9

 

[meleeka]

I’d say diet/conformation/length of wall/frequency of trims could all play a part.

 

[Leo Walker]

If the wall is too long then they can chip like that and bend upwards etc. My horses feet can do it a little bit if I leave it too long between road work sessions. But they dont look anything like the ones in the picture, they are horrible splayed, overly long feet which look to have diet/metabolic issues going on as well

 

[Pinkvboots]

Looks like neglected feet as in not trimmed for a while.

 

[Mule]

In need of a trim maybe.

 

[ycbm]

ETA I didn't see the picture on the first post before I posted this. That foot is badly in need of a trim!

sIt's usually normal. If so, the owner needs to buy a rasp and learn how to use it between trims.

But if it's a Connemara, it could have hoof wall separation syndrome, where only the outside peels up. This is a bit of hoof wall separation due to poor foot quality.

 

[fusspot]

We have one who’s back feet occasionally do this-they weren’t looked after very well in the past and also is allergic to quite a lot of feeds so doesn’t have the same as all my others.Her foot quality is definetly not as good so can do this at times even though she has a brilliant farrier now.

 

[twiggy2]

If they look like the photo in the picture then they need to be seen to a little more regularly, the diet would be adjusted if they were anything to do with me and I would start working the horse at a level it was comfortable with.
If the horse was not ok to work it would spend some time on a clean concrete or tarmac surface each day and this would be the start of getting the feet doing their job, the feet always need to be listened to to see what they can cope with and the horse is comfortable with.

 

[ycbm]

If they look like the photo in the picture then they need to be seen to a little more regularly, .

ETA, sorry I didn't realise there were pictures on the first post when I wrote this!

The foot wasn't long, twiggy and didn't need a trim except to tidy up, which was done after the photo was taken. It was an ex flat racer and that was the legacy of the high cereal diet he had been on before I bought him at auction.

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[chaps89]

The picture isn't of the actual horse in question, it was just the closest I could find of something similar online. The only difference being the chips had flicked up and come away from the hoof wall.
I thought diet and a better farrier so glad to know i wasn't far off.
Would it be the white line has stretched too which is why the hoof wall has come away?

Not a Connie so shouldn't be hwsd, although it's a gypsy cob and some of the things the owner has said has made me wonder about it having PSSM (although I don't think crap feet quality is a part/sympton of PSSM?)
However not my place to say anything unless asked, just wanted to check on here for my own knowledge sake I was on the right lines.

 

[be positive]

It may not be the fault of the farrier, if the owner doesn't get them done frequently enough they will get too long and start to break, most grass kept horses need trimming every 6 weeks if not working enough to self trim.

 

[twiggy2]

ETA, sorry I didn't realise there were pictures on the first post when I wrote this!

The foot wasn't long, twiggy and didn't need a trim except to tidy up, which was done after the photo was taken. It was an ex flat racer and that was the legacy of the high cereal diet he had been on before I bought him at auction.

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I was speaking about the first photo that OP had put up, the other photo looks fine just a lifting from a stone or similar

 

[Carrottom]

Conformation can also play a part, one of my retired Tbs has a turned out front hoof which will crack and split even when regularly trimmed.

 

[Gloi]

If the feet aren't particularly long but just chipping round the edge of the wall make sure you keep a roll on the edge of the hoof, probably topping it up at least every couple of weeks, and that will stop the chipping happening and remove any chips that are there.

 

[ohmissbrittany]

It really depends and very hard to say without pictures of the actual foot
Some can be trim related or diet/pathology.

Can you post pictures of the actual foot from the sole, the side and the front at least?