Jammed up coronary bands

feel ur pain!!!!! I say, "Okay"
"Fix it now, it's lame and we just bought the horse!" per said trainer. "SURE!" get paid for a regular shoeing and "a lameness shoeing" in less than 10 days!!!!!! Goes from $300 to $780 total in a week love it! That happened last week. "Giving 'em enough rope" will in most cases give ya a bonus for the month...

I agree!

I thought it was only my area but it seems to be a national problem of thinking the hoofwall is supposed to be twice as thick in the toe quarter than anywhere else in the foot.

I think the problem is that people fail to account for the 'angle of intercept' with the ground. ie cut a 2x4 straight across and another one on an angle. Visually, the 2nd one appears 'thicker' at the 'toe' end.

I doubt that it Rick. Contours or not the foot will still flow smoothly.

That doesn't work for me.

How about we use PVC pipe so it doesn't rot where it touches the ground?

What doesn't work for you?

I think he just proved your point that the toe quarters are supposed to be thinner than the toe!

Square peg, round hole.

The thickness at the toe will depend on the angle of the foot. I

Do you think that horses with acutely angled feet develop a thicker toe due to proportional loading of the toe vs. horses with more upright feet bearing less proportional loading of the toe? Wolf, Wolf, Wooooolllllffff . . . Baaaaa Raaaammm Ewewww

I don't know anything about things devolving but I do know on a low angled foot the toe is further away from the center of pressure so the wall will be wider that on a club foot which will be closer to the center of pressure.

Sure you do. We have all watched the red forum devolve. But that's another thread.

Long lever more force, short lever less force.

My hypothesis is that a horse is born with equal wall thickness all around the hoof and as the animal matures and develops, so does the axial wall thickness distribution change in response to weight bearing and leverage. Having raised a few of my own horses and seeing their feet mature over a decade is one of the reasons I have this hypothesis. Having worked with several breeding farms and seeing foals mature through yearling or 2yrs also has provided me with similar observations.

But I wouldn't hang my hat on that hypothesis because I haven't ever taken measurements and tracked them over time.

Longer lever = more surface area = thicker wall.

I'm talking about when you trim the bottom of the foot. Not that the wall is actually thicker.

I'm thinking it can be both . . . clubby foot thick quarters, sloping under-run foot thin quarters. Disagree?

I'm sure there are other variables to consider when talking about quarters.

All things being equal, when you decrease the angle and trim you will have a greater surface area than if the wall was vertical.

Resulting in fewer QH halter accounts . . .