... I am by no mean an expert, just a backyard trimmer, but it looks like Denny's heels are too high but I can't really tell from the pictures. Do you have...

Rachel: How long since the last trim? These feet look very overgrown and due for a trim. I also see some serious infection in the back of the foot. Have you...

Rachel, I've found that with horses with contracted heels, the best thing to do, is not do too much. I'm rehabbing a herd of horses whose feet were in...

Thanks everyone.Here is a side view I will try to get better ones tommorrow.I watched a short film with a natuarl trimmer teaching to trim the bars.She...

... to trim the ... that sole ... next step ... I think I've watched that video too. That part made no sense to me when sole isn't that strong compared to...

The picture is fairly low quality but I'd say that the heels are definitely too long. Bars should be trimmed when excessively long, but I've found that as...

I've personally seen more problems created by over trimming of the bars than not trimming. Soles dropping due to no support etc. My horses rarely get their...

This discussion leads me to a question.   Background:  When lowering the heels I slowly back them up but don't lower them any shoter than the frog.  Still...

... don't lower them any shoter than the frog.  Still the frog begins to develop that crack in the sole sulcus.  Once this crake develops it seems like...

I usually leave the frog along unless there are little flaps that will catch the dirt and bacteria or in cases of founder, where a frog that's overgrown will...