Posted by Bryan McElwee on May 03, 2001 at 23:24:00:
Today i trimmed the local vet's horses and 1 of them has foundered in the past. I have only been shoeing for a year and a half and know a foundered horse is out of my league and called a guy I have been whorkin with for 8 months or so now. He's been shoeing horses for about 20 years. The vet wants me to cut all the heel I can off the horse. He says it will return the coffin bone to its natural position. But the other farrier said to take all the toe I could. He says that if you take all the heel it the deep flexor tendon will pull harder on the coffin bone and cause more rotation. so my question is which one is right? I thought that you took all toe but I want to 100% sure before I do anything to the horse.