Lame after shoeing

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My horse was crippled lame after he was shod on both front feet, the farrier came back the same day and refitted the shoes, we gave him bute and rested for 3 days, he then went sound in walk, but is still lame in trot on one front foot. This was all 5 weeks ago.......... horse still lame..

Farrier came back a week ago, tested hoof and there is no sore bits, the farrier said he soles were abit soft when he shod him and maybe he took too much off, he has a bruise in the lame foot, quite high up.

Farrier is coming back next week to re-shoe with egg bar shoes and pads.. i am very upset, i have owned my horse 2 years and this has never happened before.

I know people will say get the vet etc, but all the vet will do is nerve block and x-ray, i am hoping he is just sore from a bruise and nothing else. Can sole bruises take this long to go ???
 
Eeer lame horse for5wks?-yes get the vet

it might have nothing to do with the shoeing,
the shoeing may have aggravated something that has been grumbling along for a while,
either way if the horse has been lame for that amount of time then it needs to be seen by a vet.

''I know people will say get the vet etc, but all the vet will do is nerve block and x-ray, i am hoping he is just sore from a bruise and nothing else. Can sole bruises take this long to go ??? ''[quote silver-dove]

'all the vet will do' by running the above tests is;
hopefully give a diagnosis and offer ways to treat the horse and get it sound
and give pain relief/anti inflammatory meds if needed

not sure why you would throw money at egg bars and pads without a diagnosis but wont pay for the diagnosis-you could just be throwing money away or making whatever is causing the lameness worse
 
My navicular horse was like this after shoeing and we tried eggbars , they only helped short term and ruined his feet, I went barefoot, much happier horse now!:)
 
Putting egg bars on without xrays and a diagnosis is a risk, if there is something going on inside the foot, other than bruising, it could cause even more problems.

The vet will do nerve blocks and xrays, if required, to help you get a diagnosis and enable correct and appropriate treatment, the saying no foot no horse is worth remembering, 5 weeks of lameness needs investigating now before he is shod again.
 
My new mare went lame in front after shoeing 6 weeks ago and it is kind of my fault

One of them is really flat and after just having a dodgy footed one PTS I insisted the farrier try to improve her angle even after he said that they were fine and he see's much worse every day and it made her really footy

Lesson learnt - listen to farrier and to horse !!!
 
Thanks for your help everyone, ive called the vet, she is coming to do x-rays next week, i wont re-shoe until the vet tells me to. Thank you
 
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