Feet Update - to the July trim

Oh the challenge of trying to correct years of poor trims....

BUTTTT, with a fantastic trimmer, anything is possible. Club foot, underrun heels, negative palmar angles and we are still on such a fantastic track to total soundness and long lasting feet!


We'll start with the front right
The left hand pictures are from January. This was when I had the natural balance shoe with pour in on this foot taken off.
 The right hand side picture is from after our July trim.



FRONT LEFT - this was the super problem hoof. underrun heel, severe and a negative palmar angle. This one we removed a wedged natural balance and it had pour ins.
We are getting there. The sole is becoming more concave, which is great for his comfort. He already has significant heel on the left foot. His entire hoof has shifted back. I'm super excited about our progress!!!! NEXT STEP: build up that topline!

Up to July update!

So this a long overdue blog post as a lot has happened since my trip to Colorado! Riding-wise, not as much as I would like. Which made a huge difference in our progress with his feet. Me not working him definitely put a damper on how quickly his feet have been strengthening. I also took the chance and stopped putting the Keratex on a couple times a week and I saw a huge difference in that as well. I wont be doing that again.

On top of my laziness, I could tell something was off, which was further pushing me into lazi-er-ness. I decided that I needed him to see the vet. But first I tried a chiro, well to be fair she was a kinesiologist (sp?). Wasn't quite my cup of tea but I could see how the practice could be beneficial to others. So since that didn't make quite the improvement we needed, we took a trip to the vet.

It was a bit scary, the words Lymes Disease got thrown around. We did lameness examines, lunged him, flexed him, did a blood panel and a Lymes test. I left being told that HE HAD TO BE WORKED. As long as everything came back normal, more than anything he needed to be exercised and needs to be moving. He also told me to buy some boots to make him more comfortable through his transition to being barefoot.

I got the results and luckily no Lymes

That was not something I was looking forward to dealing with. His blood panel wasn't as great. It was not detrimental by any means but his red blood cells and his platelets were low. There could have been multiple things that could have led to this.

I consulted with my nutrition gurus and we decided to half his MSM and I realized he was not getting the full dosage of TNT (especially for his size). TNT was brought up to spec. He popped out some dapples soon after making that change so I knew things were evening out.



I had another chiropractor out. My favorite one. She worked on him, gave me suggestions to help him get back into shape as well as some good exercises. He was way out still in his si, his withers, his right shoulder as well. He had a couple of other smaller areas but those were the big ones. After a few days I saw a huge improvement in him. Our awesome trimmer came out a week or two after and I resumed Keratexing his feet. We really seem to be on the up and up.

I believe Derp agrees!