white soft hooves have gone pink and mauve...

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Bit of a dimbo question but in the last 24 hours my horses back feet (soft white hooved) have gone a strange pink and mauve shade.

Is ths just because they are cold and wet from being out in the snow...

or could it be bruising from running about with "snow wedges" in his feet last week ?

I say its a dimbo question because in the 15 years Ive had horses with white feet Ive never seen them change colour so quickly !
 
brucea said:
Are they shod?
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yes, natural balance shoes on behind. Cant go barefoot as has underun heels so dreadful that he literally walks on the bulbs of his heels (thanks to advice from Newmarket Equine Hospital who put him in steel wedges and hisfeet literally collapsed). He spent 6 months in Equicasts and was fab but now this...
 
brucea said:
Shoes cause under-run heels. bare and good trimming fixes under-run heels.

Sounds like you may have bruising
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My horse hwo is barefoot has the 'bruising' nut he hasnt had ice blocks in his feet due to them being unshod and slathered in vaseline :)

He does have 'peeling' tho at the back

Nikki xxx
 
my barefoot horse has white feet at the back and slight pink lines about halfway up. my shod horse with white feet has no such thing. Neither are unsound (or no more than usual anyway!)
 
I have a barefoot horse with four pure white feet and no discolouration. He has been out on rutted frozen solid ground every day for six hours a day for at least ten days. I live at 1100 feet and the barn he lives in is frozen solid INSIDE.

So I can categorically say that the discolouration you are seeing in your horse's feet is not simply due to extreme cold or frozen ground and must be something else. Sounds like bruising, but I would be worried why he has feet so weak that they have bruised.

I echo Bruce. Far from "can't go barefoot" he is probably one of the very horses who would benefit most. If you want to know how, start another thread asking for some advice and people like me who have cured drastically underrun heels (that farriers have told us can't possibly go barefoot) will tell you how to do it.
 
I have a "professional" and a "recreational" laminitic.

They have all white feet - and the white feet are every bit as hard as the coloured feet - coloured fet are just ...well coloured.

Both are out full time in the snow and hard ground. The "professional" laminitic has no bruising at all, but the one who has occasional LGL has bruising at the moment and we are watching him, but not taking him in as he is fully sound.

All horses get bruising from time to toime - serum leakage intot he wall - but you only really see it on the white ones, so they get the "soft hoof" label.
 
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