Re: HOOF Help Needed

["steven" <trails@jps.net>]

Hi: A thought would be that the pads may be keeping the soles soft and the
silicone is putting excessive pressure on the soles. I would remove the pads
(cut out the centers be careful they can be tough to cut and soak the feet
in Epson Salts to relive and drawout any swelling. The Salts will also
harden the hoof and soles like a hard callous and your hands if you don't
wear gloves. steven

----- Original Message -----
From: C Eyler <eyler@mindspring.com>
To: Ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 5:09 PM
Subject: RC: HOOF Help Needed


> Long story, but please bear with me.  Trying to give all the background.
>
> My gelding pulled off a shoe, tearing out so much hoof wall that he
couldn't
> be reshod.  We left him barefoot, and all of the hoof wall around existing
> nail holes broke up on both feet (he's only shod in front).  Eventually,
> even the bottom edges of the toes broke off.  Was waiting for him to grow
> enough to be reshod, but during that time he became increasingly lame.
Vet
> x-rayed his front feet and found them fine except for having very thin
> soles.
>
> He was re-shod three weeks ago, following the vet's instructions -- wide
web
> shoes (had been using St. Croix eventers anyway) with pads, and silicone
> injected under the pads.  The farrier was barely able to get shoes on him,
> and he's been wearing bell boots to keep him from stepping on the exposed
> shoe beneath the nails.  Rode him in the ring a week later.  After another
> week, we went back out on the trail for a couple of brief rides.
>
> Those first times back out on the trail were last weekend.  No problems
the
> first ride.  On the second ride, he stumbled as we crossed through a
stream.
> About twenty feet farther on, he went suddenly lame.  Walked and stopped a
> few times, and then he seemed fine again for the rest of that short ride,
> walking and trotting.
>
> But he's been off-and-on lame this week, while I was out of town.  When I
> checked him today, I found bulges under the center of both of the pads.
Can
> silicone shift?  Could he have picked up stones?  What the *ell do I do
now?
> I DO NOT want to remove these shoes after only three weeks.  He's holding
> them well (I've starting using Keratex Hoof Hardener and I'm tightening
the
> clinches as needed) and there probably wouldn't be enought solid wall to
> drive new nails.
>
> Could I cut out the pads, leaving rim pads?  Recently someone talked about
a
> filler that can be applied to the bottom of the soles (was that you, Karen
> Chaton?)  I don't remember the name of the stuff, let alone where to get
it.
> How long would it stay in place on a horse at pasture 24/7?
>
> After fighting mystery lamenesses most of the summer (vet had seen him a
> couple of months before the time he took x-rays and doesn't think the
> problem is higher up), I'm frustrated and riding-deprived.  And I hate
> seeing my adored horse so uncomfortable.
>
> What to do?
>
> Cindy Eyler
> Baltimore
>
>
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