Ranyhyn
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A long one from me, so please grab a cuppa 
Monday night C comes in hopping lame. We manage to get her in from her individual paddock on 3 legs. I inspect the legs, no heat apart from a puffy fetlock and she had been hooning prior to my arrival apparently.
Made her comfortable, came home and consulted my horse bible and within an hour we were on the phone to the vet, who advised it was either PIF, septic joint/tendon or a fracture. Obviously at that point we called her out.
Upon arriving she found a raging digital pulse (and told me where to find it, very helpful lady) and diagnosed PIF right away (she felt for heat in legs etc - no pain so she was very satisfied it was that)
She dug, found nothing. But did raise some pertinent questions about the state of C's feet *which I will go into later
We have wet poulticed for 3 days, we're on our first day and a half and there's grey ooze which I assume is the pus (I have never poulticed before, so I'm learning) anyway, so keeping foot nice and clean and will keep poulticing til end of thurdsay and change to dry.
Anyway ok now we come to my questions.
On my blacksmiths previous visit I asked him about her feet. I was concerned with the wet conditions (our land at home is wet) and a "smell" AND her bad quality horn, that something might need to be done for her. On inspection he pronounced her feet great. Fabulous... and despite me suggesting he come out more frequently than 7 weeks, he said no - there wouldn't be much to work with so not to bother.
When the vet took her shoe off she was shocked and called me round to look. She suggested the shoe was unsupported by sole and just basically against the thin hoof wall. Her white line was diseased and in the vets opinion her feet weren't very good at all.
Now, previous to this I have been hugely happy with my farrier. No problems whatsoever, but I feel really quite let down. I am not the most au-fait with feet, I'll admit, so really would expect to be guided by my farrier and I feel I have been left in the dark, despite asking, about the state of her feet.
So now I am thinking of getting a new farrier. It seems according to the vet that C will need some kind of remedial farriery now to sort her feet out and I don't feel that's a route I can go down with current farrier.
So where would you turn now? How do I find a good farrier who will help me think outside the box when it comes to finding a way of getting C's feet back in good condition?
Some details you may want to know:
She's fed spillers cool mix, hi-fi lite, naf pink powder, biotin and apple cider vinegar.
She was just coming back into work, so ten mins on horse-walker and steady walking round lanes with a bit of schooling on a surface.
Monday night C comes in hopping lame. We manage to get her in from her individual paddock on 3 legs
. I inspect the legs, no heat apart from a puffy fetlock and she had been hooning prior to my arrival apparently.Made her comfortable, came home and consulted my horse bible and within an hour we were on the phone to the vet, who advised it was either PIF, septic joint/tendon or a fracture.
Obviously at that point we called her out.Upon arriving she found a raging digital pulse (and told me where to find it, very helpful lady
) and diagnosed PIF right away (she felt for heat in legs etc - no pain so she was very satisfied it was that)She dug, found nothing. But did raise some pertinent questions about the state of C's feet *which I will go into later
We have wet poulticed for 3 days, we're on our first day and a half and there's grey ooze which I assume is the pus (I have never poulticed before, so I'm learning) anyway, so keeping foot nice and clean and will keep poulticing til end of thurdsay and change to dry.
Anyway ok now we come to my questions.
On my blacksmiths previous visit I asked him about her feet. I was concerned with the wet conditions (our land at home is wet) and a "smell" AND her bad quality horn, that something might need to be done for her. On inspection he pronounced her feet great. Fabulous... and despite me suggesting he come out more frequently than 7 weeks, he said no - there wouldn't be much to work with so not to bother.
When the vet took her shoe off she was shocked and called me round to look. She suggested the shoe was unsupported by sole and just basically against the thin hoof wall. Her white line was diseased and in the vets opinion her feet weren't very good at all.
Now, previous to this I have been hugely happy with my farrier. No problems whatsoever, but I feel really quite let down. I am not the most au-fait with feet, I'll admit, so really would expect to be guided by my farrier and I feel I have been left in the dark, despite asking, about the state of her feet.
So now I am thinking of getting a new farrier. It seems according to the vet that C will need some kind of remedial farriery now to sort her feet out and I don't feel that's a route I can go down with current farrier.
So where would you turn now? How do I find a good farrier who will help me think outside the box when it comes to finding a way of getting C's feet back in good condition?
Some details you may want to know:
She's fed spillers cool mix, hi-fi lite, naf pink powder, biotin and apple cider vinegar.
She was just coming back into work, so ten mins on horse-walker and steady walking round lanes with a bit of schooling on a surface.
