I don't have much info on these images. But, I think this will be a great set of photos for everyone to take a peek at, and play the "What do you see" game.
Look hard, and comment away. I'm looking forward to what y'all see!
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Let's Play: What Do You See?
Sophie at Barefoot Horse blog, was kind enough to grant me permission to use these images. A fellow "sole sister" over in the UK, she studied barefoot and decided THAT was the way to go. I've been reading her blog for a while now, and enjoyed very much the case studies she has posted. (Anyone in the UK that needs hoof help, I'd look her up.)
I don't have much info on these images. But, I think this will be a great set of photos for everyone to take a peek at, and play the "What do you see" game.
Look hard, and comment away. I'm looking forward to what y'all see!
I don't have much info on these images. But, I think this will be a great set of photos for everyone to take a peek at, and play the "What do you see" game.
Look hard, and comment away. I'm looking forward to what y'all see!
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I am wishing that someone had just photoshopped the heel off of that horse...
Yikes! That hoof had some injury or serious disease.
What do I see?
1)A mess?
2)The way a horse's hoof is NOT supposed to look?
3)The newest new shoe design created by Lady Gaga?
Please tell us soon.
Yikes!
~Lisa
Looks pretty bad - the frog looks to be absent and the foot seriously deformed. From the wedge pad/round shoe I'm guessing either a severe case of club foot or laminitis with rotation - a lot of people seem to think wedge pads are a good idea for this but I'm not convinced (not that I know very much). The angle changes just before the coronet band. The horse appears to be weight-bearing on only what's left of its hoof wall. Not being able to see the sole of the foot, it's hard to say what's going on there, but I'll bet the pad isn't helping the sole and frog redevelop, although if there's exposed inner foot it might provide protection. And what's with the poorly set nails?
That's a mess for sure...attempting to rehab founder? Kate had some great observations.
I don't know beyond what others have said already. But I do know it's a huge mess! Poor horsey =(
Well, it makes me happy that my guys' feet look almost normal, compared to this one!
It makes my stomach queasy just looking at the pictures.
I find it interesting that the nails shown in the last photo seem to have been connected to something at some point in time. One thought I had was that the heel was there, and then came away - at least maybe the lower part of the hoof.
I'm wondering if the horse had an injury around the coronary band that restricted growth of the hoof.
Um, wow?! Had to lol at Laughing Orca's #3 comment... um, that looks hideous, not at all a good thing, I'm guessing rehabbing a founder also.
I'd really really like to see the Xrays that support shoeing the horse in this manner.
@Laughing Orca - LMAO at your #3
Okay getting serious now... if it had just been a photo I stumbled upon on the 'net I would NOT have thought photo 1 belonged to a horse. Wow.
I know next to nothing about hooves but my guess would be this is an attempt to rehab a horse with a serious case of laminitis (founder).
I'd like to know what the outcome was regardless.
do we know it's a horse? i thought donkey at first. it could be a pony whose feet were not trimmed so they grew into "slippers." but most farriers know that you fix a slipper foot by trimming not by adding a LadyGaga.
building up the heel (the pad) will not help the underrun heel - the horse's body will "think" it already has enough heel.
and the farrier should get his eyes checked cuz some of the nails didn't go in right.
~lytha
Poor frog doesn't have a chance with those overgeown, contracted heels! I would love to see a solar view. Looks like an abscess burst out at the cornary band, too. I think the nails came loose because there isn't room on that hoof wall for enough nails to hold up to the leverage produced by that shoe/pad package extending out back so far.
Reminds me of the mess that were the feet on a little horse we bought for our son many years ago, except her hairline was lower in the front than the back. We took the shoes and pads off and her hooves looked like blocks of wood - no features on the sole at all!
My initial reaction was a lot like Lisa's, then I felt sick. But as you already know, what I know about hooves fits inside a walnut shell.
So spill already and put us out of our misery.
OS
WOW! I can't imagine what it feels like for the horse to walk on that. Contracted heels, no frog, a WTF shoeing job. Looks like a job this moron farrier at my one barn would do. He has no clue. All the horses he trims/shoes end up with no heels, long toes and flat soles or they look clubby and contracted with no frog at all.
Well, since I have had to deal with Turk's front feet, I find this interesting vs. horrifying.
Well, except for wondering what the hoof looked like 'before'? That was probably horrifying.
My wild guess is it's a walking horse shoe they put on Tennessee Walkers and Saddlebreds to get that high action.
Let us know!
I don't think that this is a laminitis case as there's no laminar wedge and the hoof doesn't have that collapsed look to it. If it is a club it looks to be that way by force. Way too long, contracted heels...hell the whole hoof is contracted, underdeveloped digital cushions and I'm sure the frog is in bad shape. Looks like the coronary band is being squeezed/damaged by keeping the hoof in that shape and not sure if that is an abscess that blew or if it's just from the pressure/leverage of the hoof that is doing the damage. You can also see the bruising to the wall, looks like it traveled down from the coronary band area. I can't fathom why a horse would be shod this way...what do the other hooves look like? Is this horse being rehabbed out of these shoes by whom ever took these pics? I hope so.
My son Sean was signed in when I posted my comment. He doesn't know that much about hooves but he would know that there is somthing wrong with those!
Let's see, it looks like an abscess blown out on the coronet band, and possibly one or two more above the heel. Severely contracted heels, with a non-existant frog, possibly due to thrush. A line of bruising running across about a quarter of the way up the hoof. I do see why they did the shoe like that, because the horse has no support in the back and it looks like if he tried to walk on his foot he would either dislocate or tear something. This means though that every time he takes a step it pulls on the nails holding the front of the shoe on, putting enormous strain on the front of the hoof. I wish we could see the sole of the foot, that would definitely tell more.
Oh that made a pang of hurt in my gut! Talk about your worst nightmare!
I thought Kate and Breanna had some good observations, and it looks like a pony foot and an attempt to correct founder/slipperfoot. I don't understand why there are bent over nails or a wedge pad, they both seem superfluous to me. But whaddo I know!
Contracted heels, and maybe the plans include lowering them a bit at a time to avoid strain on the tendons of the leg. The bruising looks like it may have originated at the heel and is moving down as the foot grows.
It's a mess, but hopefully this horse? will get the treatment it needs to walk sound again.
Um - a late comment - sorry but I am the lady of the photos. That horse poor love is already dead. Came from somewhere in Texas. If you go to http://barefoothorseblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/contracted-hoof-high-heels-compacted.html
You can see the sister hoof with the shoe and pad removed. Not pretty.
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