sheared heels

So glad to have found this forum. I have lots of questions and hope to learn a lot.

I thought I remembered from school to drop the side of the heel that is jammed up. But after going over my text book again it seems that I may have remembered incorrectly and made the situation worse. How does this look to you? I hope I left it better then I found it.

PS. this is a back yard pet and the likely hood of shoes isn't very good.

I don't see where you did anything different than what was done the last time.

So instead of saying that. Why don't you be helpfull and explain what should have been done? That way people can learn. Isn't that what we are all here for?

you say in the original post drop the jammed up heel , it must be eyes but after the trim it looks to 1/2" higher , im confused to what you are saying

Thank you, I thought this was a pretty simple question that most experienced farriers would be able to help me with. I still am not sure if I did the wrong thing? I'm putting myself/work out here to learn. Something a lot of farriers are not doing.

Let me make sure I have my terminology straight 1st. The medial side of the foot is the side with the jammed up heel correct? That is the side that I removed more hoof from the ground surface. So whilst the medial side still has more length from coronet to ground. It is the side I am trying to drop. Am I doing it wrong?

forget the terminology , the photo clearly shows the "jammed up" heel after trimming to be a lot higher

OK. A lot higher then what? Then it was before I trimmed it? Forgetting the terminology I can only guess that you mean the medial side is higher. I can only guess that by saying higher, that means the bulb on the medial side needs to come down. I can only guess that that means I need to remove more heel from the medial side then I already did. I hope I'm not coming off as a dick. Maybe it's too hot. I feel like I asked a simple question in hopes of learning and I'm being chided for it. If you meant no offense then please accept my apology.

Ray I don't see where he changed the relative M/L orientation of the heels to be much different than it was before the foot was trimmed. The shunted heel (jammed up) is longer before and still longer after by about the same amount.

Is a high low heeled horse (never heard that b4) exactly as it sounds in this situation? One heel bulb higher then the other? I can't imagine this horse was born this way. It must have happened from poor farriery, no?

Yes I didn't change it much. The lateral heel has been barely touched and the medial I took down as much as I could without making the horse sore from lack of sole.

before throwing farrier under the bus, might want to take closer look at this horse's diagonal hind. I've found this type of heel shear is due to compensating for pain elsewhere in the horse. Solve that puzzle and this foot will trim and balance right out in no time.

Oh OK, thanks. I will have to start looking for that. I'm not sure I've ever separated the thought of high/low situation with out the toes being high low as well. I don't recall what the toes looked like on this one. But judging from the sole. It seems that the foot is more upright then the left.

Since I'm the one trying here to specifically learn what the heck I'm looking at. Would you please do me a favor and not throw out 2 word relies like that? Haha, I'm 1/2 kidding here. But seriously. what would a high low heeled horse have to do with this? I would imagine the high low heeled horse is pretty common and this level of sheer is not nearly as common. Of course my level of mastery on this matter is clearly quite small.