#barefoothooves

@barefoothooves

I'd love to hear your thoughts about my gelding's hooves! These photos were taken one day post trim by my farrier. Overall he's sound and happy with these feet, but I feel like there might be some things to change and improve. The horse is a 10yo warmblood, has been barefoot all his life and with this same farrier for the past 6 years since I bought him. He has a tendency for flares and is sort of sensitive (he is really sore for a week if you take away just a bit too much). I rasp away cracks myself pretty frequently and give him a touch up about 4 weeks in. He's on a 6 week farrier schedule.

Pictures are in order: left front, left hind, right hind, right front, both fronts (whole horse).

Thank you!!

barefoothooves would you take a look at these for me? I made an attempt with the fronts but gave up on the hinds. Elsie is a 20 y/o 14 hh TWH/pony cross, approx 960 lbs. She lives outside 24/7 on approx 7 acres of scrubby weeds with her buddies and likes to hang out in the creek. She is an in-your-pocket pony so the full body pic I wanted didn’t happen but I tried.

barefoothooves, do you mind giving me another markup?  They’re so helpful!

Romeo’s owner has given me the go-ahead to do some work with his hooves. My phone camera really doesn’t want to focus in the barn, so I may have to start bringing my camera out there.  Even without trimming, just being out of shoes for a week really seems to have had some improvement - heels are a little less contracted, big cracks in the toes looking better.

These are George's hooves as of tonight - I know he's got some under-run heels and seriously out of control bars right now. There's something bizarre going on with his white line, you can especially see it in the front left - it's stretched and pink. I just noticed it tonight, so if anyone has input as to what could be causing it, go ahead and shoot. This is about 3 weeks after a trim, and he's currently trimmed by an AANHCP practitioner. I'll probably be taking him over myself once I go to the Liberated Horsemanship gateway clinic in June.

He's an OTTB, he's 1300lbs and 16.1hh, and his diet is actually changing right now, he's currently on 9lbs of Nutrena Pro Force Fiber (12/13, 7% sugar, 13% starch), 2lbs of rice bran, and 3lbs of alfalfa daily in addition to free choice grass hay. He's going to be switching to 9lbs Legend's Performance Pellet (12/10, 4% sugar, 9% starch), 2lbs Legend's Omega Plus (extruded flax supplement), and 3lbs of Alfalfa. I'm trying to keep the inflammatory triggers as low as possible, but with him being such a picky eater and hard keeper, it's difficult. I'm changing it because I'm really just not happy with the NSC of the Nutrena, and he doesn't need that much fat now that he's gained the weight.

He's turned out 24/7 on a dry lot with three others, it's been really muddy and wet out there for the past two months or so, but right now it's frozen solid.