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Location: Mi | Looking for some knowledge/advice. Tell me what you know about or your experience with sidebone in a horses front feet? |
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| We have an older horse with side bone. When we hauled him alot rodeoing we had his coffin joints injected twice a year we no longer do that since the kids ride him and he's not hauled as hard. We have always kept him shod regularly and shoe him with 3 degree wedges. |
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| Coffin joint injections and PLR shoes made the biggest difference in keeping mine comfortable |
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| Bump.
No advice, but we just bought a nice head horse with sidebone. He just limps trotting in a circle to the right. Our vet said he would not do well with rigorous work, but he would definitely work for a "weekend warrior". I'm a little nervous about it because he will never get better....only stay the same or get worse, but he was too good to pass up. He said you can do surgery to remove the them, but it's a nasty bloody mess and they almost always come back. He seems to do best barefoot, so that's what we're trying first. |
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| I also give my old guy Animal Element Ciscus which helps with the inflamation and keeps him a little more comfortable. |
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| I have a mare with it. I had to stop running her on barrels because it hurts when she turns, but she gets around fine otherwise and can trail ride. She's a broodie now and she handles that fine without any extra maintenance. |
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Location: Alberta Canada | We have one that developed sidebone after an injury & then improper trimming. We took xrays & thankfully it isn't close to any joints. He would however refuse to let us pick up the opposite front mostly on uneven ground, so obviously it was causing discomfort. Now that we have switched farriers & have his feet more balanced we have no issues at all. My advice is go to a knowledgeable vet & find out exactly what you are dealing with before you end up with a problem you can't manage. |
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| I might take in a lame horse to retire or to pack the kids around the yard, but any horse I give money for with hopes of campaigning I would want sound when I went to go look at it. |
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Location: Woodstown, NJ | One of my horses has sidebone. He was always a stumbler. Never took a lame step in his life. But didn't like barrel racing; perhaps because of the turns. We kept calling vets to X-ray him and they'd talk us out of it because he wasn't lame. When we finally got him X-rayed, we found out he had sidebone. The vet told us it was from poor trimming. His toes were too long. The vet said it shouldn't cause problems once it's set, which it was. Otherwise there is inflammation. There is also less mobility, which causes the stumbling. He told me that ringbone is serious but sidebone is not. We tried a few medications (I think Previcox, Isoxsuprine) but it didn't make a difference in the stumbling and like I said, he's not lame. I see other people said they injected the coffin bone. I might have tried this if the vet had recommended it. I have pretty much given up on this horse as far as barrel racing but he's fine to fart around on. |
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