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The horse pulled his shoe and took that part with him. Not sure where you got the WLD. One thing I see a lot is anytime there is any wall seperation from people not properly trimming feet, there screaming WLD. I have seen very few true cases of WLD around here, it's starting to rank up there with navicular.
Are theses the hooves your Training with your Buff ? Are you serous . you have buffed to the coronet & part of the coronet band . Lets hope the damage doesn't result in a horizontal crack developing .
How many pictures would you like Jack, of hooves that have been buffed top to bottom every 6-8 weeks for a few years. Here's the foot that I posted above with the glue. This was taken the day I started shoeing the horse, the pic says 8-5-2010 so those feet have been buffed for almost 2 years.
By the way do you know what boxed hooves look like?. No by the looks of it. Well keep up the good work with your buff . Your starting to reap your reward.
For those who don't know what Boxed hooves are. There Hooves that's have been constantly over rasped & dumped, reducing them in size. With all the pitfalls that come with that reduction . Contraction of the heels . Insufficient room for the pedal bone .Reduced & lack of internal tissues to deal with concussion.Insufficient room for the pastern to articulate freely with out causing inflammation to associated localised tissues . Jammed Lateral cartilage & so on.
I found a picture of Jack!!!! Jack I'll agree with you that the horses feet are boxy, perhaps it's because the pathologies present within the foot. The day I started shoeing the horse he was grade 4 lame. He has a torn medial collateral ligament, torn impar ligament and torn DFT, confirmed by an MRI. He has now returned to light dressage work and his foot is actually a size bigger than it was a year and a half ago minus the strecthed out toe and poor heels.
John you know exactly where I'm coming from don't bull dust ya don't . There is a big difference between giving a hoof a "light!!!" sand in a shoeing comp Or for an owner who is presenting at a show that week. To young lads running around the country side rasping & buffing every hoof to the coronet in sight. There is a big difference between a properly trimmed hoof & fitted shoe having a "light!!!" buff. Then those who cant trim a hoof or fit a shoe properly. buffing the living crap out of feet in the hope know one will notice their shity work & that the hoof was never trimmed or shod properly in the first place. In my opinion if you do good work & the horse is feed right, trimmed right & shod right then there should be no need to touch the top half of the hoof with a rasp or buff & you wont change my mind. I've seen far to many Buff butchers crippling masterpieces.
Jack all you have mentioned there would mean to me a lad cant shoe i thought we were talking about over rasping the outer wall and the long term effect. i posted 2 pics of a horses foot that you said was over rasped on the outer wall 15 years down the road his feet look good to me i will post you some T/B feet aswell they might not be 15 years on but 5+ will do i think but i know it wont change anything
Justin, it was a joke. I think it's pretty easy to assume WLD from that picture. Especially when I just posted 1 case of it. Diagnosed as such, rather than an excuse for poor trimming. Horse lives in a swamp. I see next to none in my horses on high ground. I think environment makes a difference as well.
Another stretched forward toe, with underrun heels. Rolled toe and "onion" heels. Set the clips into the wall. Didn't use the right size nails. Used a number 5 CH slim blade. This is a number 2 kerkheart. Would an E head fit better?
What that I was joking (about him copying me) or that it wasn't an excuse for poor trimming? This is the horse that I had xrays to go on. The WLD was very apparent as where a few other things.
