Pony's feet - any thoughts please?

[Fifty Bales of Hay]

Here are some pictures of my pony's feet for thoughts and opinion's of "are we doing ok" or any improvements to be made? I've been told by my farrier he's naturally got an upright foot, but not sure exactly what that means or if this is correctable, or shouldn't even be corrected?

Previously shod (as seen by the nail holes) but pulled the shoes off a few weeks ago when he was trimmed by the farrier.

I hope I've got these in the right order:

Left fore







Left hind







Right hind







Right fore







Thank you!

 

[erwina]

They look a little contracted, from my very small knowledge

 

[CBFan]

Again... limited knowledge but they look contracted. Please stop your farrier from chopping ANYTHING off the frog... this will not help matters. your pony needs to grow some callous on those frogs in order to use them for their intended purpose - shock absorbtion! at the moment they will be sore (due to the lack of callous) so the pony will not be using his feet properly...

Scrub the frogs daily for a week with dilute milton for any thrush, then gradually build up purposefull exercise over a variety of terrain... and they will start de-contracting

 

[TwoStroke]

They are a little upright, but I wouldn't worry - if anything needs to be 'corrected' I'd let the pony do it himself . The frogs are in contact with the ground, so nothing to panic about imo.

The left hind looks a little bullnosed - it may be the farrier dumping the toe. He looks quite keen with the rasp/knife if the sole shot of the LH is anything to go by.

Lots to like - decent palmar hoof and some nice concavity. Is the pony sound? If so, crack on .