spicyaf
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Ready to pull my hair out over this one… bare with me…
7 y/o OTTB purchase off the track sound last July. She came to me sound (only xrayed ankles and knees which were all clean) with overgrown feet and need of trimming. Had shoes put on her a few days after arrival, she was sound and wonderful and amazing for about 6-7 weeks until she got back-to-back abscesses in her back hooves. As soon as she was recovered from that, she began to have a subtle LF lameness. Figured she tweaked something (after ruling out another abscess and changing pastures)… gave her some time. weeks later shes still grade 1 lameness LF. Very subtle, not any worse but not much better. In the meantime, she was being shod what seemed like every 4 weeks from a thrown shoe and he would do a complete shoeing and trim (fronts only at this point). After about 6 weeks of no better/no worse, had vet come out for shots/lameness exam and she was sound. Rode great that day and was lame again the next, of course…
2 weeks later still off, called vet back out for lameness exam. She pretty much blocked out on second block and did radiographs (Will try to include them in post). Rads showed very thin soles and some ringbone/ish stuff but that wasnt in the joint and was def much worse on RF which shes always been sound on.
Decide to do shoeing with pads and did coffin joint inj to help her over the hump… 9 days post injection she was worse, day 11 she was the soundest she’d been in months. Rode her lightly, next day I lunged her before being shod again and she was sound… lunged her again after shoeing, shes lame. I’m frustrated. Wondering if shoeing job is the issue (don’t want to be that person but i’m out of options) and talked to vet to try another shoer. This shoer did similar shoeing but said although balanced, her soles esp LF are very thing. Did slight wedge with packing and leather pads. Just got second shoeing with that and shes STILL not sound. am I not being patient enough with new shoer??? Ive also been told she should be sound pretty quickly with these specialty shoes with thin soles… i’m just dumping money into a horse I cannot ride and cannot seem to figure out if i’m even adressing the correct thing at this point.
Desperate for other opinions… will try to attach rads from beginning of december. She has excellent diet with added alfalfa and feet grow really fast. Thank you!
7 y/o OTTB purchase off the track sound last July. She came to me sound (only xrayed ankles and knees which were all clean) with overgrown feet and need of trimming. Had shoes put on her a few days after arrival, she was sound and wonderful and amazing for about 6-7 weeks until she got back-to-back abscesses in her back hooves. As soon as she was recovered from that, she began to have a subtle LF lameness. Figured she tweaked something (after ruling out another abscess and changing pastures)… gave her some time. weeks later shes still grade 1 lameness LF. Very subtle, not any worse but not much better. In the meantime, she was being shod what seemed like every 4 weeks from a thrown shoe and he would do a complete shoeing and trim (fronts only at this point). After about 6 weeks of no better/no worse, had vet come out for shots/lameness exam and she was sound. Rode great that day and was lame again the next, of course…
2 weeks later still off, called vet back out for lameness exam. She pretty much blocked out on second block and did radiographs (Will try to include them in post). Rads showed very thin soles and some ringbone/ish stuff but that wasnt in the joint and was def much worse on RF which shes always been sound on.
Decide to do shoeing with pads and did coffin joint inj to help her over the hump… 9 days post injection she was worse, day 11 she was the soundest she’d been in months. Rode her lightly, next day I lunged her before being shod again and she was sound… lunged her again after shoeing, shes lame. I’m frustrated. Wondering if shoeing job is the issue (don’t want to be that person but i’m out of options) and talked to vet to try another shoer. This shoer did similar shoeing but said although balanced, her soles esp LF are very thing. Did slight wedge with packing and leather pads. Just got second shoeing with that and shes STILL not sound. am I not being patient enough with new shoer??? Ive also been told she should be sound pretty quickly with these specialty shoes with thin soles… i’m just dumping money into a horse I cannot ride and cannot seem to figure out if i’m even adressing the correct thing at this point.
Desperate for other opinions… will try to attach rads from beginning of december. She has excellent diet with added alfalfa and feet grow really fast. Thank you!
I am certainly not opposed to barefoot (esp considering what i'm paying for specialized shoeing on a horse i cannot ride!) just trying not to do too many things at once and not knowing what works (if anything). I did have her barefoot for about 4 weeks as a desperate attempt at something and nothing changed (obviously if i choose to do that again, more time would be needed)