Awesome awesome choice. I love him. He is thorough and meticulous. A little rough around the edges but he is dedicated to each of the horses he works with. He made the effort to call my previous farrier and get her opinion on America's feet and where she was with him and what she was doing.
The first time he worked on them, America ended up too short. Which is why he called. This was when I started to second guess whether he needed to stay barefoot. It didn't really make sense why he was so sore.
The second time he worked on him, he barely took anything off. Did just enough. By this time, I was almost completely decided on putting shoes back on him, but my farrier wanted to see how he did. When after this very minimal trim was done, I was there watching and when he was cleaning up his feet, I could see the bruising everywhere. All around the edges. The frog. Everything, everywhere. No wonder he was so sore.
By this point, the farrier said to give him a few days. If he was still really sore, he wanted to do xrays because he believes there is more going on. So after a week of being sore, I called him and told him and promptly got an appointment to get xrays done.
AND BOY O BOY AM I GLAD I DID THAT!
He has two completely different feet. He's got high/low syndrome as well. And the kicker of it all, he literally has half the depth of sole that he needs to have. The vet believes that it is genetic. He said that we could possibly get some sole to grow but not enough for him to be comfortable. The guy weighs 1300 lbs. He is at .6 cm and should be over 1cm. I instantly felt like a horrible mother :( but the vet said that taking his shoes off helped him to grow healthier hooves all around.
But here are the xrays if anyone is interested in seeing what they look like!
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