--- In barefoothorses@yahoogroups.com, Barbara Sollner-Webb
<bsw@j...> wrote:
> May I ask for your input, please!
>
> "forgewizard" <forgewizard@y...> says:
> > A truly foundered hoof CANNOT, I repeat CANNOT be reattached to
its
> coffin bone!
>
> But this seems completely contrary to what Pete Ramey and other of
the Natural Trimmers assert. For instance, Pete says his whole barn
consists of previously foundered, now 100% sound, horses. The
Natural Trimming books say that new laminae can and do develop as the
new portion of hoof grows down, once the source of the laminitis and
the trim are corrected.
>
> Which is correct?
>
> -Barbara

If the coronary corium has not been destroyed, If blood supply to the
front of the hoof has not been destroyed, If p3 itself remains
intact, If the trimming and/or shoeing protocols are correct and
correctly maintained, then I do beleive that the hoof capsule and the
coffin bone can regain their former relationship. That said, the
configuration/conformation of the two may have changed with regard to
what some would consider the 'normal' configuration, but none the
less, reattachment can and does occur.

Rick