numbat
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Post by numbat on Apr 15, 2008 4:34:42 GMT 1
You want to see an underrun heel? Here's one: And here's the same horse, but the other foot (sorry, that's just what I had) a few months later after removing the shoes and trimming. The trimmer consistently rolled the toe back all the way to the white line, and mostly just brushed the heels once or twice with the rasp. The diet was not changed at all. The horse was ridden and stayed sound throughout.
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Post by Yann on Apr 15, 2008 8:41:23 GMT 1
Thanks for that Breezy, that's really interesting
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Post by amarche on Apr 15, 2008 11:16:16 GMT 1
wow - thanks for the replies and the photos - it's very interesting numbat - would that be what is termed as 'typical TB feet' then? as the heels are parallel to the floor in the first pic! I was looking around my horsey neighbours Tb feet last night and I think he is a great candidate for this, they've taken his shoes off now for a 'break' on recommendation of the farrier (I think the farrier had drawn a blank as to what to do next TBH) but he's improving in soundness every day! His frogs are bizarre though, very large and squishy on one foot, and then flaky and contracted on the other. And it looks like the bars had folded over too. I will ask if I can have photos, I dont think they'll mind.
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Post by numbat on Apr 15, 2008 13:12:13 GMT 1
Well, he was an Arab, and I'd hate to think those hooves were typical anything, they were extreme. Here are some more "Typical" TB feet: Heels nothing like the chestnut's but foot still wants to run forward. Thin walls, and flat, flat, thin soles. I'm not saying it's necessarily typical or natural for TB's to have such feet, just this is an example of what I think people mean when they say that.
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