Laying it bare..

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Right, little woman is out of heartbars and barefoot on the advice of the farrier, he believes this is the best route for her. She's been shod on all four for 20 years so this is the first time we've had nudey feet. She has boots with pads for stones and I think she's getting a little sore in heels on concrete so gonna boot for concrete too. Sound on sand and shavings. She's fully retired and currently not one on grass
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5 degrees pedal bone rotation in this foot. And severely pigeon toed. This foot has suspected abscess but we think its just heel bruising from off loading with other abscess. Still little bit sore round heel
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7 degrees rotation, severely pigeon toed again, had a bad abscess track up coronet band and burst there. All clear now. Heels are pretty contracted and we hoping on growing a nice frog eventually

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Sorry photo quality bad, she was bored of me by now!
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Lighting isn't great in stable but it was absolutely piddling it down!

Spoilered for massive photo size most likely, on my phone.
Diet is fast fibre, soaked hay and salt licks. Waiting for pro hoof to come next week.

If these photos are wrong way, I'm gonna cry.
 
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5 degrees pedal bone rotation in this foot. And severely pigeon toed. This foot has suspected abscess but we think its just heel bruising from off loading with other abscess. Still little bit sore round heel

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7 degrees rotation, severely pigeon toed again, had a bad abscess track up coronet band and burst there. All clear now. Heels are pretty contracted and we hoping on growing a nice frog eventually

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Great that you have such a supportive farrier :D. Perhaps ask him to lay off the frogs a little though :o from the photos they look like they've had all the callous removed, which will set you back.

Sounds like you're all sorted diet and boot-wise... Good luck with the rehab :).
 
TwoStroke said:
Great that you have such a supportive farrier :D. Perhaps ask him to lay off the frogs a little though :o from the photos they look like they've had all the callous removed, which will set you back.

Sounds like you're all sorted diet and boot-wise... Good luck with the rehab :).
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He's a saint :D:D
Yeah I noticed the frogs, he said she'll build up callous to them? They were pretty stinky after 7 months heartbar.
Is it quite normal for them to have some sensitivity in the heel?

Thank you :)
 
Hi, i can understand that the frogs would be a bit grotty after all that time. I wonder if with the heart bars she hasn't been using her frogs at all and now they are expected to do something they are sore.
My horse has his shoes off 2 weeks ago, i noticed today he has thrush, smelt it on the pads when I took his boots off. I didn't notice it before so wonder is his heels have opened a bit and now i can see it, his frogs haven't been trimmed and wonder if thats not helped, so i cut the raggedy bits off today with scissors. Do her fronts smell at all?
my horse is also feeling the stones, was doing well, but since it has rained we are struggling on the little stones. Hope you manage to struggle through, it really isn't easy.
 
Ah, maybe it was a one off thrush attack then :D so long as he doesn't do that here on in :).

Yes, some sensitivity in feet like those is quite normal. Just boot on surfaces that she struggles on, and go barefoot on surfaces she's comfy on.

If she's had laminitis (I assume so from the rotation!) then she may have been weighting the heels more, which could explain the soreness as they're quite weak and not fully equipped to do their job at the moment. Just watch that as she doesn't go toe first - booting with pads should be enough to keep her comfy, and treat for thrush :).
 
No smeller feet :) I've been very careful with her frogs, she lands heel first normally. But I recon they could get thrust pretty easily so I keep on top of them. She's a tiny bit pottery on stones so I avoid them and then boot her for stones.

Hope your man carries on doing well, i know it definatly won't be easy but I've got an extremely supportive farrier and a very strong little lady haha :)
 
your doing better than me then! lol, am afraid I am going against the vet as each time I go he asks the farrier to change things and he kept going lamer and lamer, :-(
just hope with time things work out ok.
 
Aww :) it's no competition though! Just wanna get both our ponies better!
Little lady is a welsh x Arab so has rock solid feeties! Just badly pigeon toed which had meant She's retired. I always believe go with an open minded farrier :) my farrier does quite a lot unshod and is always happy to talk me through. We didn't consult vet bout the shoes coming off, farrier just suggested it after seeing her walk since she'd have fronts off for abscess for about 3 weeks but was box rested and was happy without them :)

You'll get there I'm sure! HHO barefoot babes are fantastic for advice. I love them ;)
 
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