Posted by Diane Luckey on April 17, 2003 at 01:06:02:
Hello, my 5yr old APHA show horse has a quarter crack on the left front inside near the heel. It was treated and laced back in September 02' and was sound until an abcess this January. The treatment was repeated and I started him on Super Biozen suppliment. He has not been ridden since January and we are now exercising him lightly again and he has periods of slight lameness. It comes and goes but my veteranarian recently x-rayed the hoof and found it to be unlevel and it appears that it has been unlevel for a long time and is now correcting the problem through x-raying the hoof right before shoeing to take the exact amount off and x-rayed again right after to assure levelness. Could the lameness be caused by the corrective shoeing? Now I'm told that this will be a chronic problem. Is this found to be true even if the crack grows out and the hoof if level? Advice is greatly appreciated. I want to make sure I'm doing the right thing for my horse. Thank you.