--- Shelly <seekhim@...> wrote:

> My Arab/Appy has a crack in his lower right front hoof wall that is
>
> not better with natural trimming, its about halfway up the wall
> now.
> Dont know if its from overgrowth , white line , old founder (oh I
> hope
> not ), or dry hoof wall- As soon as I can learn how to load the
> pics I
> will . He was trimmed 3 weeks ago. I worry about the crack and put
> a
> new roll on with each trim and he seems to have a tighter white
> line
> everywhere except where the crack is-Its vertical BTW. Icant tell
> if
> he is heel first landing ,it looks more like a flat footed type
> landing. Should I have been getting the heel first landing from his
>
> very first trim?(been trimming him over a year.)Its hard to get
> enough
> movement in this deep snow! Thanks for your imput! His diet is
> soaked
> beet pulp mixed with oil, hay chaff& vitamin/minerals added plus
> free
> choice lowsugar hay. Shelly in PA



Well~

We just spent 2 private days with Gene Ovinek in hawaii, we took him
around and he saw the harder horses in our farrier practice and he
worked on 2 of our own. 1 in bad founder condition, and the other
one with hoof wall cracks.....

We have been doing the Arab with hoof wall cracks for 3 years, and to
no avail, he still has them, so we asked Gene to work on him. What
he said was, that our trim was good, it was perfect actually, except
that His foot was not perfect, he is a little pigeioned toed....to
stop making both feet look the same....follow the sole line, only go
down through the chalky layer....one foot sure enough is different
than the other...one heel is a little higher...that is the way he
wants to grow...the hoof cracks are a result of trimming improperly
and putting stress on the wall...just follow your horses sole plane,
you might see that they are different. And heel first landing has
been harder for our horse as well...but with this trim, he landed
heel first.

Storme

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