6yr old WB. Has contracted SDFT(not club), I don't know how much that effects his actual foot. His LF coffin bone is lowered a few degrees though.
He is one horse who's feet I'd never touch myself because I don't know what is going on with them. If it's normal, normal for him, problem, idk.
Overall the dimensions of his feet seem ok to me. His heels are being kept back(could go another ~1/4" still imo), toes are not running away, especially the LF which tends to with how his coffin bone sits.
The part that gets me is his soles and walls. He has no wall and a bunch of sole, or something like that. He's never really grown any walls and chips off as soon as there is any length. 4-5 weeks is as long as hell go without trashing his feet from general wear. (Last two cycles he went way too long, I didn't realize the farrier wasn't scheduled to be out until 8 weeks!)
His soles and bars looks weird. It seems like false sole, but doesn't. He's always has this ill-defined bar/ sole junction. Could it be some kind of callus thing because he has no wall so his soles take the weight? idk, just came into my mind.
He has been on and off foot sore for a while. He was shod in fall/winter/spring 2013? as an experiment to help with his contacted tendons, come spring he wouldn't keep shoes on for more than 2 weeks. Don't know if that's from it being spring or from the pad we added adding instability.
He was foot sore before shoes, very minor. Only noticeable when he was on the hard packed arena track or stepping onto concrete when his feet were packed with sand. Moved a year later and went barefoot(shredded feet, no wall to nail to). Tried glue ons to make him more comfortable, those lasted longer but one got sucked off in mud, the other pulled when I turned him into a bigger pasture. Shortly after I sent him away for trainers and didn't see him for a year. Never heard anything about him being foot sore from the trainer.
Moved closer to him this summer and see him all the time now. He's been on/off foot sore since I got back in July. Mostly tied with the weather. Wet weather he's worse. Not bad enough most of the time to stop riding, it'll be the occasional hard step when he hits hard footing. Did lots of riding outside on grass where he's comfortable so idk if he was sore that whole time too.
Winter is here now. It was rain/showers last week so everything was wet, now the ground is frozen. Went to bring him in Yesterday and he was hobbling over the frozen mud.
My trainer is having me paint his feet to harden them, but idk if it's just a hardness thing.
idk!
Pictures, fresh trim from last Saturday:
He is one horse who's feet I'd never touch myself because I don't know what is going on with them. If it's normal, normal for him, problem, idk.
Overall the dimensions of his feet seem ok to me. His heels are being kept back(could go another ~1/4" still imo), toes are not running away, especially the LF which tends to with how his coffin bone sits.
The part that gets me is his soles and walls. He has no wall and a bunch of sole, or something like that. He's never really grown any walls and chips off as soon as there is any length. 4-5 weeks is as long as hell go without trashing his feet from general wear. (Last two cycles he went way too long, I didn't realize the farrier wasn't scheduled to be out until 8 weeks!)
His soles and bars looks weird. It seems like false sole, but doesn't. He's always has this ill-defined bar/ sole junction. Could it be some kind of callus thing because he has no wall so his soles take the weight? idk, just came into my mind.
He has been on and off foot sore for a while. He was shod in fall/winter/spring 2013? as an experiment to help with his contacted tendons, come spring he wouldn't keep shoes on for more than 2 weeks. Don't know if that's from it being spring or from the pad we added adding instability.
He was foot sore before shoes, very minor. Only noticeable when he was on the hard packed arena track or stepping onto concrete when his feet were packed with sand. Moved a year later and went barefoot(shredded feet, no wall to nail to). Tried glue ons to make him more comfortable, those lasted longer but one got sucked off in mud, the other pulled when I turned him into a bigger pasture. Shortly after I sent him away for trainers and didn't see him for a year. Never heard anything about him being foot sore from the trainer.
Moved closer to him this summer and see him all the time now. He's been on/off foot sore since I got back in July. Mostly tied with the weather. Wet weather he's worse. Not bad enough most of the time to stop riding, it'll be the occasional hard step when he hits hard footing. Did lots of riding outside on grass where he's comfortable so idk if he was sore that whole time too.
Winter is here now. It was rain/showers last week so everything was wet, now the ground is frozen. Went to bring him in Yesterday and he was hobbling over the frozen mud.
My trainer is having me paint his feet to harden them, but idk if it's just a hardness thing.
idk!
Pictures, fresh trim from last Saturday: