Update - hole in wall of foot

[Birker2020]

I've had the farrier out this morning - he text me yesterday evening to say he could attend the yard mid morning and i went up before work to hay and water/skip out.

The pro rider has just text me to say she was going to ride him but after she'd tacked him up the farrier arrived and after investigation said he was very sore on the inside of his foot and he has a potential abscess so the farrier has dug out as much as he could and the rider has kindly put a poultice on him and left him in.

I can't believe it as he wasn't lame on it - not that he goes very far as he's already in when I get there after work and if I don't do anything with him as in the case last night because I was going the gym he's only taken outside his stable and tied up and put back after I've mucked out.

I don't put him on the walker or do ground work with him every night so I guess I may have missed an off step last night.

How frustrating. Just as we'd got him going too. Never mind. At least its the weekend tomorrow which makes going twice a day much easier! And as fate had it about three hours ago I ordered a load of shavings to be delivered next week just as well now.

 

[Birker2020]

I thought as I had so many suggestions/advice to my original post someone might have been interested in an update!
At least its not seedy toe. I think it looks worse than it is, the farrier has deliberately left the shoe a bit wider on the outside so where it looks like he's lost hoof wall on the outside, he actually hasn't.

Its so hard to take decent photos with my camera but I took more up to date photos last night but they've not come across from my personal email to my work email for some reason, they are stuck in my outbox.

Will update next week.

 

[SEL]

I've got one who can barely be lame with an abscess unless it's in her heel - farrier tends to find the exit holes.

Good to hear you got an answer even though it's frustrating!

 

[View]

Well an abscess is a better outcome than many!

At least it should be a fairly short term setback in the scheme of things?

 

[Birker2020]

Spoke to farrier over phone last night. He came out and the rider who had tacked up ready to ride for me after the farrier had been held him.

Lari hadn't shown signs of being lame (it wasn't that I'd not noticed, he just wasn't at this point).

The farrier said the shoe had sprung by about quarter of an inch. From him presumably standing on the back of it and this had pushed nail outwards through the hoofwall causing the damage showing. The part sprung shoe was only visible once taken off.

However, as he attempted to remove the shoe my horse reacted by shooting back when pressure was applied to the inside of the foot. He said he was extremely painful over that area on the inside thus he suspects an abscess brewing.

He started to scrape the hoof but was quite rightly worried about going too deeply so the foot was poulticed by two friends which was so kind of them in the hope that the paring of the sole would have softened it enough to cause any abscess to come out.

I'm praying its an abscess but this is exactly what happened to Bailey and it turned out to be bad navicular.

He says he can see that during his life he's sustained massive trauma to this foot due to the growth rings or something. This has made me worried. So i guess we are at an impasse for the time being until pus is seen on the poultice.

If he's not showing anything on the poultice after Sunday/Monday I will have to get the vet out and think if there is no abscess about xray as the next logical step. Feeling totally defeated by it all as i suspect there's more than meets the eye.

 

[View]

Our past experiences will always affect how we view things. Try not to worry overly - it may be “just” an abcess, so here’s hoping for pus.

 

[mini-eventer]

Could he have simply bruised himself when he sprung his shoe? Mine had crap feet and has done this a couple of times. Try not to panic often the simplest answer is the most likely.

 

[SEL]

Try not to panic. Those sharp reactions to pressure are usually abscesses

I used to be on a yard where the YO would poultice every horse showing up suddenly lame. More often than not it was an abscess.

 

[Birker2020]

Thank you for your reassurances. I suppose if he was going to go the way Bailey went with navicular he'd have been lame when he was ridden of Tuesday which he wasn't.

Just over thinking again lol

 

[Roxylola]

A lot of the pain from an abcess is the pressure, by the sounds he reacted when pressure was applied, so it possibly just hasn't built enough pressure for him to be lame yet.
Hopefully you'll see a result from poulticing

 

[AandK]

My older horse had had a few abscesses over the years. One was found when he was shod, farrier had finished and was trimming my late mare when he started waving a hind foot about. Farrier checked and found an abscess in/near a nail hole. Being shod must have just tipped the pressure into the ouchy category. They don’t always show as severe lameness.

 

[Birker2020]

We got pus! The smell of infection is gross when it gets on your hands it stays no matter how many times you wash your hands! Note to self -gloves needed.

Hoping he can be fixed and out by the end of next week!

Thanks for your help everyone