Pain in feet after foal's remedial trimming ... worried

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My foal has been having his feet trimmed weekly to help correct his contracted tendons but it seems to be making him foot sore & pottery
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It's worse in the mornings when he comes out of the stable and has to walk across the gravel & concreate to his field. By the time I get home from work he's usually racing around quite happily albeit this hard ground at the moment seems to affect him in the field at times too
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His last trim was on Friday and he's defo worse this time (this is the second trim he's had)

So should I be worried or is this normal with remedial trimming??

Myfarrier is a good un and I intend to speak to him tomorrow (don't like to disturb him at the weekend) but thought you guys may be able to assist too.

The poor foal has been through so much since birth I would hate to see him in any sort of pain
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Thanks in advance
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you know my sayin 'only good farriers lame horses' .... my point in question.
hes uncomfortable now, but in the future he'll be better for it.

lou x
 
Or in my case, as has been proved several times over - including the one MADE laminitic in front of my eyes - bad farriers lame horses too.

Plus we have had several foals have corrective farriery, not from the man mentioned above who we didn't have again of course, and I can't think of one made sore. I have a rasp and under farriers guidance my OH has taken 4 light strokes every 4 days in the right area of the hoof, and they have all come right with no pain.

First farrier mentioned made everything sore for several days at every visit, and he was here every 6 weeks without fail.

 
My vet advised me that you can create more problems by trimming them too much as if they become foot sore, they start to work themselves incorectly, which can create new problems for yourself!
If he is foot sore, perhaps your farrier would be better to use corrective shoe's depending on how bad the problem is and how contracted the tendons are.
 
My nearly yearling was trimmed on Saturday and he has one foot turning out, so my farrier told me he'd trimmed very close and he might be footy for a few days, but that we really need to keep at his offending foot.

When he was a foal he was a little contracted on one back leg but it settled itself pretty quickly - but I had to keep him in a lot for the first 2 weeks as he was very loose kneed too, again resolved itself. My farrier then (still does my mare) really wasn't taking a lot of interest in correcting anything but I changed the foal over to my sisters farrier instead as he seems to pay more attention, explain more, and takes the trouble to make sure he's level and straight. The other used to just trim as quick as possible and be away, which I wasn't too happy with.

I'm sure he should be fine, and its better getting these things fixed while they are little enough so it prevents problems later.
 
How often is the little one being trimmed? with contracted tendonds its better to take a little off more often to try and avoid the foal being foot sore howevere since you are constantly lowering the heels as they grow to keep streatching out the tendons the little guy is bound to be uncomfortable.
 
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