Posted by Tim Nyreen on October 18, 2001 at 22:51:26:
Hope you can help!I am new in the farrier buiness,less than 1 year.I went out to trim a couple of new horses and found a couple of proublums.This cliant has a 4 year old courter horse mare that looks like she has a miled case of founder[this horse has all white hoofs].But her rear hoofs look like there is blood under the outer wall of the hoof going all the way across the hoof,in both rear feet.This horse also has problums with it's teeth and is about 250lbs under weight.The cliant states that the vet has been out many times and has removed a few teeth.Cliant says that the horse has trouble chewing,and spits out large amounts of hay and grass.She says the horse was fine up untill it was about 2 years old.Do you think the problum with the hoofs could be a nutrishion proublum?This cliant also has a 16 month old out of the same blood lines and his hoofs grow out on a angle and pancake out severly on the latteral sides.Even after trimming getting everthing flat and leval and angles at 53 and 55 she looks like shes standing on her medeal sides of her hoofs with her nees bowed in.Can this be caused by suden groth sperts or possably genetic.Cliant says this horse was fine as a yearling.I hope you can help!Thanks,Tim Nyreem