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ohdearme

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Farrier came out Thurs afternoon and shod my horse while I was at work. Pulled her out of stable in the evening to the worst shoes I have ever seen, an uncomfortable horse, and shocked stares of the other liveries…
Very out of character for my farrier. Heat in near side fore & hind hooves.

Different farrier came out next morning and after a few mins of speechless gawking, redid all 4 very thoroughly.
Horse definitely more comfortable and towed me out to field, but front hoof still hot.

Over the weekend, horse full of energy & trotting up sound but footy on a hard tight circle.

I am beyond annoyed at this as we were doing so well, and she doesn’t deserve this :(

Could this be abscess brewing? Or more like inflammation/nail bind from initial crap shoes which should settle?

It’s now 3 days since the rubbish shoes, and heat doesn’t seem to be worse/better. New farrier said I can ride whenever, and just see how she is - but am reluctant to ride with a hot hoof, although not obviously lame at walk/trot.

Any ideas/advice much obliged!
 
ohdearme said:
Farrier came out Thurs afternoon and shod my horse while I was at work. Pulled her out of stable in the evening to the worst shoes I have ever seen, an uncomfortable horse, and shocked stares of the other liveries…
Very out of character for my farrier. Heat in near side fore & hind hooves.

Different farrier came out next morning and after a few mins of speechless gawking, redid all 4 very thoroughly.
Horse definitely more comfortable and towed me out to field, but front hoof still hot.

Over the weekend, horse full of energy & trotting up sound but footy on a hard tight circle.

I am beyond annoyed at this as we were doing so well, and she doesn’t deserve this :(

Could this be abscess brewing? Or more like inflammation/nail bind from initial crap shoes which should settle?

It’s now 3 days since the rubbish shoes, and heat doesn’t seem to be worse/better. New farrier said I can ride whenever, and just see how she is - but am reluctant to ride with a hot hoof, although not obviously lame at walk/trot.

Any ideas/advice much obliged!
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Sometimes I have seen farriers take the feet back a but too much and the horse being footy for a few days.
Could be something like the nail being in the wrong way etc

You could try cold hosing and see if the heat goes away. I hope you took pictures of the bad shoeing and contacted your initial farrier?

I expect it will be 4:5 days before it might settle, if something was majorly wrong the second farrier would have picked it up surely 😊
 
Thanks both! Was just so worried first farrier had done lots of damage, but heat is less today so may ride tomorrow and keep fingers crossed she feels ok!
 
Bumped, as horse now has digital pulses & a significant bruise developed on hoof wall near coronet band :(

Other liveries mentioning laminitis, deep abscesses etc and I am panicking! I rode her for the first time this morning and she felt mainly okay, just the occasional off step.

Waiting for vet tomorrow
 
That would be very low for an abscess exit wound, which is usually up in the skin, not through the horn (though it grows down looking like that as time goes on). Is it possible she trodden on herself or if it's on the outside, another shod horse has trodden on her?
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Yep it’s the outside. Haven’t noticed it before but her feet are normally caked in mud! So worried about lami because of pulses/heat but my logical brain knows it’s not always that
 
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