Quarter Crack?

[HensPens]

Does anyone have any experience of them?

How long did it take to grow out?
Did you have to do anything to hold it together whilst it healed?
How much did it cost?

Thanks

 

[Echo Bravo]

Your Farrier should tell you, but I think the growth of the horn.

 

[HensPens]

No farrier until Thursday.

Until then wine and worry

(obviously not wine all week until then, would be in massive trouble at work if so!)

 

[_daisy_]

has there been damage to the coronet?

ive managed to find all the pics of my Welshs quarter crack.Fromt he day she ripped her foot open - major damage to the coronet
August 05


all stitched up


she was bandaged fo a few months as the stitches alone wouldnt hold the weight being put on it. eventually she wore turnout boots - equilibrium ones that cover the foot as well (mainly just to keep it clean) but it did take ages before she could be left with nothing on it - but it was a serious accident she caused her self - even the vet was shocked at what shed done, dont think hed seen anything like it before

June 06


and this was taken last week.


so as you can see my pony grew her crack out in less than 11 months. it will be with her for life now but it has knitted together and is very strong now

 

[Echo Bravo]

Looking at Daisy's photos. My old gelding Jeeves when I bought him had a crack down from his corenet band, which never grew out, as he got older he got intermittent lameness in that foot. I had him for 11 years and him PTS when his hips went and he was 21 years old or more.

 

[cptrayes]

I had one on a hind foot in my eventer. It was beginning to go unstable and flexed wider open as he moved. It cured itself when I took him barefoot, I can send you pics if you want to see them.

A previous horse had remedial shoeing for a bad front foot quarter crack which cost me £150 every four weeks. Waste of time and money. He got one on a back foot too. They never healed but they ended up strapped together with a metal bar screwed to his foot. He died very young of other causes. If I'd known then what I know now I'd have taken off his shoes and got him working barefoot.

Does your horse's crack start at the coronet? Is it unstable - does it move when he does? Is he lame?

 

[TheFarrier]

I shoe a horse that has no quarter on one of her hind feet as she had suffered some trauma where it was basically sliced off... think the picture on this thread (_daisy_ first picture) but completely removed. the farrier before me told the owner it would grow back (even though it had been years) it wont grow back but the horse is totally sound anyway.

Not completely related but i find it interesting.

I also used to shoe (before we moved) a point to pointer who has a false quarter and it has now completely grown out... (very similar to _daisys_ picture of june 06) and now there isnt even a line. I used to draw a clip into the shoe to help stabilise the area and i didnt charge her any extra on her normal shoeing bill. The horse remained sound through the entire process and was even raced.

It took about 6-8 months which is the normal length of time for complete wall renewal.

 

[cptrayes]

That would be a great reason to shoe, The Farrier - I guess that you can compensate for the lack of hoof at the heel with the heel of the shoe. Without it, the horse would surely have an unstable foot?

How amazing that injury repair is pictured above, and how amazing that you can shoe a horse to cope without a heel altogether.

 

[TheFarrier]

It is amazing, the difference between the horse without shoes above and the horse i shod with the false quarter is the crack dissapeared totally. It was fabulous.

Yes she is shod with normal shoes but of course the weight goes down the feet and onto the surface of the shoe so she doesnt compensate anywhere else. I dont know what the result would be for her without a shoe but i can imagine it would effect her hoof capsule making it and her unstable. I dont think she would be sound without a shoe. She put her foot through some wire and sliced it right off bulb through to quarter.

 

[HensPens]

This is the hoof in question:

I'm so worried about him. I've been leasing him for 4 months (riding him for six) and I've been planning to buy him after Christmas.