Opinions on my girls feet please..

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Sorry they are mucky, took these pics before groomed, picked out and oiled. She has been barefoot for about a month now (had fronts before) and is totally sound and happy on them. She's doing about an hours work a day atm and almost no roadwork. She is a native type and farrier has also agreed she has strong feet.

There is some damage caused by the Sanglier induced adventures
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She is due the farrier again week after next if I confirm the appointment.

TBH I do worry about them as her diet before I got her two months ago was, well I won't go there
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I find am oiling them a lot as everything is so totally and utterly baked here atm.

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What are all the weird rasp marks half way up her feet?

You'll find that the best way to have great feet is by feeding from the inside out - oils etc don't do much.
 
She's had them since I have known her. They are ridges in the hoof itself. Am not certain if they were nutritional or caused by her feet being painfully long when she arrived. or even something totally different. I had the farrier out three days after she got here and he was a little upset and said he would have wanted to see her about two months ago at least, he knew I had just bought her.

Thank you re feeding. Have been doing a lot of reading on feeding with regards to feet and it is fascinating and there is a lot of information.
 
ah sorry. These were caused on thursday night. I am not entierly sure what on but sometime that night a wild boar was around in the horses field and the surrounding ones. The horses and the big farmers cows all smashed through the wooden and electric fencing and ended up in the villege (thankfully not together). By some lucky twist of fate in the whole horrendous scene that was the only mark on her.
 
Yep, I can definitely see the attraction in them. And they are soooo much nicer than our 500lb black bears over here....
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Having a dope-moment here....you don't have bears in France do you?
 
What oil are you using? I would only recommend Effol, as it really strengthens and rehydrates the hoof. All the other ones I know have so many bad chemicals in them!
 
fungicidal hoof oil is good, effol is ok but it really just makes the hooves look nice, id say her feet are ok cos if she had shoes on before it will take her feet a while to adapt, and if she's ever been in bad condition they lose it in their feet 1st and its the last place to regain condition.

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I had a problem with a particular crack in the front of my boys hoof,were the toe clip sits,never got any worse but wanted rid,farrier advised me to stay away from any form of hoof oil,see his point as the hoof wall is porous and any hoof oil will stop moisture penetrating the wall,he suggested kevin bacon,i have used this and it is awesome stuff,along with a general vit supp it has done the trick!If it is soooo dry over there the best thing you can do is tub hooves in water,if she will let you??if not any water based product,hoof moist and believe it or not if you can get it on prescription aqueous cream??YES aqueous cream,water based,works and if you have kids with skin probs,FREE,lol!!
 
In the pictures showing the sole of the foot, you can see where her foot is already starting to come back to the size it should be in terms of the sole. So the hard ground etc is stimulating the foot correctly which is a real positive. And her heels look like they are coming back too. It might be the angle of the camera but it does look like there could be a slight foot imbalance between one side to the other, as the heel *appears* to be further back on one side. But that could just be the angle of the photo as I said. The toes are too long, but the trimming will deal with that over time.

Like Hadfos says, tubbing in water (or standing in a stream) would be the very best thing as not many hoof oils and the like really work. And if her diet was bad before, can you get any feed balancers in France, like Bailey's, Top Spec or Blue Chip? These will aid her all round health which in turn will of course help her feet.
 
Ditto aqueous cream, its about £3 from the pharmacy (even better if you can get it for free). I mix a little tea tree in mine and use it all over the hoof and frog.
 
her toes are long and her feet look a little flat.the actual horn doesnt look bad,i think she will get really nice feet with continued trimming!
oiling is generally not recomended i prefere water based things if im gunna use anything as it doesnt stop the hoof from either absorbing and releasing water as it needs to.
 
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