New horse are these dry looking hoofs ok?

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Hi all,
I'm new to the h&h site and a new horse owner this is my 1st owned horse, I have always ridden and been around my sisters horses on and off but never had my own before. I wasn't supposed to be having her for another 3 weeks when I have the support of my very horsey sister on hand (due to move). However the seller was being odd about me going down to visit her and this worried me as I'd paid in full for her! My sister suggested if i can go and get her do it. A friend kindly offered me some grazing near by my current home until we move in 3 weeks time and it's going to be a very long journey and with the horse being on thin side it gives me time to get a bit of weight on with some extra feed. However when she arrived yesterday I noticed her hoof looked a shabby at the top moved her feathers back to look and it's very dry. She also didn't like me touching the top of the hoof much but was when I lifted back feet up? I didn't mess to much with her as she was settling in and I wanted her to enjoy my company so I just wandered around the field with her for an hour giving her a groom over and few treats.

Ideally I'd have kept her at the other yard until move date as not to keep her moving about but I really had a bad feeling about the lady selling her never returning my calls msgs and putting me off going over there for the last 2 weekends.

Here's a pic of the dry peeling looking hoof

Okay I can't work out how upload pic from my Samsung s4 if anyone can explain I'd be grateful :/
 
Really, its easy to get caught up in the excitement of a purchase, we have all done it, but you should have had the horse vetted!
You are very trusting paying out for said pony before it is delivered, but that is all water under the bridge.
Sounds like you need to get a vet out, there are other things to check, the vaccinations, the worming, the teeth, to name just a few :)
I assume you have the passport and that it belongs to the horse.
 
Can you upload the photo to photobucket or similar and then post the IMG code in the forum reply box?

I do agree with B2 that it would be wise to get a vet along to look at her and give her a check over.
 


I am very aware now I rushed and let my heart overrule head :(

she's and 18 year old black cob

here's a picture of her yesterday.


Thanks for you replies. All advice taken on board. Farrier is coming to the yard on saturday so will ask him to have a look then its going to bother me in the mean time as to weather is just superficial or something thats actually an indication of an underlying issue. And I wormed her yesterday when she arrived. Seller said vaccine are up to date however I have no proof of this but she will have any jabs reccomened by the vet x
 
Yes, could be a dry peripole. She does look lovely and is the darkest seal brown (often mistaken for black) that I've seen for ages - gorgeous colour! i hope that all goes well with the farrier and that you are able to find out when she was last vaccinated etc... as mentioned above, it should be recorded on her passport (I really hope that the seller gave you it). If it comes to it, you can just start the course of jabs again and apply for a new passport (if you know the PIO you can get them to send a copy), so not a disaster.

I wish you both have many happy years together. :)
 
Ah I have the passport as we move out to france in 3 weeks but no record of jabs on there thou! although she says it's been done I think it's best to afresh so that info is documented. She's a really beautiful lady inside and out ��
 
happyhacker85 said:
and with the horse being on thin side it gives me time to get a bit of weight on with some extra feed.
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Looking at the pic of her OP she looks a good weight and I'd be really careful not to overfeed her. I speak from experience, I have a good doer and it's a LOT harder to get weight off a cob once it's on so if I were you I'd keep her nice and trim. :)
 
Oh really nellrosk? The yard owner who has been super helpful to me said she's too thin... and to be honest she looks much better in the pic than in real life... and I think some of it is probs to do with lack of muscle tone so getting her back into work slowly should help build her up nicely. She's not at all interested in feed and just wants her grass so hopefully the lush spring grass will be good. Found she has an ergot growth this eve... pretty big too and alsonfeather mites :'( treated her for mites this evening and farrier coming out to do hoof trim and look at the ergot growth. Her hoofs have been done with moisturiser this evening so that should help the dry flakiness :) thanks everyone for your advice :) x
 
I totally agree with NellRosk, don't fill her with hard feed, build muscle slowly and lots of good quality forage (great time of year for the grass) if she really looks lighter than the photo. The BHS website has a good guide to checking weight/ condition scoring (inc a video) - do this perhaps even weekly to start with and get a weight tape and write it all down so you can track progress.

Restricted grazing, muzzles, soaking hay etc are all a real pain and best avoided if at all possible.
 
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