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| I'm still dealing with lameness issues, and am very frustrated.
I did take him to a clinic and had them pull fluid to test for possible infection, and there wasn't any. Got him home, and had a very well known farrier in my area look at him, and he put a rocker shoe on, a leather pad and packed with magic cushion. That was on April 19th. Fast forward some, and I gave him an Osphos shot on 5/1. Started him back on Previcox 5/4. Still unrideable. I feel like this is a shoeing issue, but I'm really not sure. The farrier I just had shoe him, was the first time he worked on him, was trying to correct a few things that he did not like with what we had going on.
I started him on Cur-ost 5/7.
I 100% understand he has a moderate case of high ringbone, but he did good all winter, and now he's unrideable.
I am in contact with my new farrier to get his opinion on what to do. I don't want to keep changing things with his feet, because he gets more sore every time we do. I am surprised the rocker shoe, with leather pad is not working for him, as I previously had him in a pad, but not a rocker shoe, and he did good.
I'm at my last straw, and I keep going to the barn every day telling myself that we are going to overcome this, but I don't know what to do anymore. I put DIO liniment on almost every day. The first picture is of him today, and the other two is when he was shod by our new farrier on 4/19.
I feel absolutely defeated.
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 Just a Yankee
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Location: Some where I haven't left yet | My High Ringbone horse goes from "rideable" to "unrideable" ALOT  . Mostly.... it's the fusing process and how hard he used himself.
I shoe him as "backed up" as I can get the toe, 3 degree wedge. That joint is a low motion joint, but if he uses himself a bunch he'll chip or inflame that area and be unrideable until the chip fixates or the inflamation subsides which seems to take next to forever. He's got High Ringbone in ALL four legs, but someone forgot to tell him that his legs were trashed. Left front is almost fused, but, there's too much joint space in the right front he's chipped the "ring bone" nope... not going to guess how, but the X-Ray showed a chip. - Side note I do inject him. | |
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| It's so frustrating. He only has high ringbone in his right front pastern. All other legs x-ray grear! I tried a wedge on his heel and the next day was nearly three legged lame. Almost two weeks later he seemed to get used to it, and was sounder, but my new farrier thought it just crushed his heel so we took it off and put a rocker shoe on and a leather pad and he's pretty lame again.. | |
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Just a Yankee
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Location: Some where I haven't left yet | My boy is sometimes sound after shoeing, but usually he isn't. Mostly an angle change. I've gotten to where I'm shoeing him at 4-5 weeks to keep the angle change to a minimum. Finding where they are comfortable is the hardest part, mostly because the deterioration keeps going while your trying to find the right combination. Last fall I felt like the biggest jerk ever because he came away from a barrel race limping like mad. Fast forward to a month ago - X-Ray's revealed that he'd fused on the one leg and he was traveling dang near perfect (well, for four terrible legs). Then he ran top of the 2D with no noticeable soreness afterwards. One week later, re-shoe him and bam.... limping again. | |
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Gettin Jiggy Wit It
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| I have a friend that has a gelding with high ring bone. She was told he'd be never run again by one vet because he was a grade 3/4 lame. She went to another vet and they injected his pastern and put him him natural balance shoes. The main thing was easing his break over. She ran him last year! He did great. He is not sound with out natural balance shoes or injections so it's a miracle he's back! She pulled shoes in the winter due to snow and he was lame coming out of spring. She just had natural balance shoes put back on and injected his pasterns for the summer... Fast forward 2 weeks he is sound. I hope you get your horse back. I understand your worry and frustration. | |
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| WetSaddleBlankets - 2018-05-09 10:20 PM
I have a friend that has a gelding with high ring bone. She was told he'd be never run again by one vet because he was a grade 3/4 lame. She went to another vet and they injected his pastern and put him him natural balance shoes. The main thing was easing his break over. She ran him last year! He did great. He is not sound with out natural balance shoes or injections so it's a miracle he's back! She pulled shoes in the winter due to snow and he was lame coming out of spring. She just had natural balance shoes put back on and injected his pasterns for the summer... Fast forward 2 weeks he is sound. I hope you get your horse back. I understand your worry and frustration.
Thank you! I'm just devastated. We worked 4x a week all fall and winter to be ready for the season and I haven't rode him in a month. We injected his pastern in march, and there was not much space to continue injections. I had very good luck last October objecting his pastern. Have another farrier appt on the 22nd so will get his opinion on natural balance shoes. I mentioned them to our new farrier on 4/19 and he said they have their pros and cons but didn't feel we were ready for those, but now I'm wondering if they would help. | |
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