Quarter crack and the new straigthbar shoe

Today I found this one...

I'm not a good forger,but I can make a functional and decent straigthbar shoe.

Gabino who clenched the horse

Gabino why the big gap between the dressed foot and the wedge pad ?

I clinch,Jhon,and finish the after the pic.Anyway,you know I dont' rasp much the clinches nor like to sand the hoof.
Chris,the heel is very floated,It gets down,but don't finally still.You can see the coronet band that is descended.

Ten weeks later

Looks like it's working pretty good, Gabino.

Regards

Big improvement in the original crack but it does appear to my eye that the shoe is a bit short at the back/heels and that with the appearance of the second crack, that the wall between the two may be undermined and therefore mostly detached. Is there any indication that the two cracks are 'communicating' horizontally and that it is a result of infection under that segment of the wall?

There were two cracks in the original picture, both from the CB down.

Regards

The second crack blew exactly from the end of the heel of the shoe Gabino made. I think Rick B may be right here....that the entire wall was, and may still be, undermined and would probably best be resected out. Gabino,any reason that you didn't put more shoe on this foot the first time? Looks like another half inch or so under the bulbs would have helped here....

Dave

There is not a second crack.I'ts a rasp mark.The crack back that you can see in the pic of the today shoeing is an separation between the bulb and the periople because there is a big trush.During 1o weeks the horse got a dirty conditions of life. I'm surprised that it got the crack sound.

10 weeks! That certainly doesn't help your cause. I find that these kind of feet respond much better to a shorter schedule so you can keep the trim/shoe back under he limb and not let it run forward. I would want to do this foot every 4-5 weeks for a few cycles. Having to leave it on for ten, I would say you did great with that first go!

Dave

I am not the best forger either....but try a heartbar shoe with rads to see what's going on is what I would suggest to the owner. It's an idea.
we both need Smitty and Chris lessons on forging

I used that shoe on a racehorse in 1995 that had a touch of navicular...to get it thur a race it came in 5th the first time out and placed for a while; but then the navicular agitated it and was retired after race season.

Gambino
Looks like you did the correction job, the best way for the horse. I bet that next round of pics that foot is responding as more time passes...

but it will take over 2 yrs for everything to return to normal; depending on how fast the horse's foot grows. it is 1 yr for the average.

ps it took 4 yrs to get one horse back to normal at 22 yrs old on a contraction [severe hoofboundness] with and without shoes

Huh??

Linda your confusing me