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Location: Being pushed over the edge, NM | (You don't need a Facebook account to see this album)
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I took on one hell of a project two weeks ago. 3 year old filly, suffered a slab fracture of the knee exactly a year ago, foundered after surgery. I won't get into the back story, the owner did what he could and what he thought was best. The important thing is she's now with me. I've flown a specialist out from Houston to work on my FDD mare and am flying him back out to work on this one. My vet is just as tenacious and dedicated as I am, plus he's got a foot fetish (he's a hell of a farrier!)
What I am hoping to accomplish by sharing this, is to try and break some mindset-molds. If you see the way she was set and shod in the "before" pictures, it is wildly different than what we have her set in now, and it's working. I explored wedges, natural balance, etc, because that's what we've all been told to do and that's what's accepted. I am not here to tell anyone that their farrier/vet/advice is wrong, I certainly am on a huge learning curve myself. What I am here to do is share what I've seen this filly accomplish in just 2 weeks with extremely aggressive and outside-the-box "radical" therapy. I say "radical" because it goes against just about every piece of advice I've ever been given and what advice I've seen given here.
If you, your vet, your farrier, can learn anything from this, please use it. And send me a dollar, this is my Merry Christmas to ME present for the next 5 years!
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  Crazy Chicken Chick
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | I'm not sure which pictures are which.. but from what I saw your farrier put a rocker shoe to get her back to balance. So can this horse walk now and did you use bute? I like the xrays . I guess this process reversed the rotation. |
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The Advice Guru
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| I have one that was worse, she actually went through the sole, and sloughed off both front feet. (Very long story)
Any way we actually cut the superficial flexor tendon in both many times, this then releases the pressure on the coffin bone, down side, she had to learn to balance on the front feet.
Right now we are finally winning after a year of abscesses.
If you have any questions from diet (refrain from any sugar, or NSC, no alfalfa this will contribute to founder and abscesses) to what we did message me
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Gettin Jiggy Wit It
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| have you heard of stewart clogs? They are simular to a rocker shoe in the aspect that they allow the weight to roll off the area of the coffin bone thus Relieving the delicate area of the foot of pressure. It allows the horse to find a comfortable way to stand with out placing stress on the coffin area directly (which is what you do not want, obviously). They are made of wood and glued on (you dont want to nail and cause concussion on a laminitic hoof). This summer, my good mare, got a sudden onset of acute laminitis due to eating a poisonous weed. Luckily, after 7 days at the vet, she pulled through with no rotation. I did have a friend that mentioned these stewart clogs to me incase I needed them. She had two horses that got laminitis with slight rotation and she used them for their recovery. They helped so much... Both her horses luckily came though and ended up even being rideable again. I hope your filly is ok.
http://www.shopedss.com/products/EDSS-Steward-Clog.html
Edited by WetSaddleBlankets 2014-12-17 11:35 PM
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Location: Four Corners Colorado | My old Stallion, A Secret Missile, had this going on almost exactly like your mare. They did the same thing to his feet and all it did was errode the tip of his coffin bone till there was nothing. I would find a different farrier/barefoot trimmer and quick. You can see the errosion in this mares feet. If nothing changes she won't have a coffin bone left for the lamina to attach to. |
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Location: NC | Good luck!!!!!  |
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 Scorpions R Us
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Location: So. Cali. | We had that rescued colt, Follower, who had pretty similar xrays. Rotation, deterioration of the coffin bone, ringbone, etc. With the help of our shoer and anti-inflammatories he was able to live, for the most part, comfortably for 3 years, before we made the decision this passed May to let him go from his painful body at the tender age of 6.
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Probably crazy for posting, but for anyone dealing with founder/severe rotations, come inside