hksuermann
07-22-2005, 05:02 PM
Any of you have any experience with a horse getting kind of raised and a little puffy looking (well, perhaps not puffy, we'll say "meaty" feeling) around the entire coronary band (including the heel bulbs) as their good-quality new growth hits the ground at the heel? It's like the hairline has moved up and there is a softer medium in between the hairline and the hard hoof wall. Don't know how else to describe it. Heels formerly weak and underrun now have incredibly strong heel buttresses right at the widest point of the frog, and the one foot that was mildly clubby is starting to stay low in the heel and just beginning to exfoliate sole in the seat-of-corn, which makes me think he is about to come down the rest of the way. The heel bulbs themselves suddenly look and feel very different...very "meaty" as I said, very convex above the hairline where they used to be quite flat, obviously he is sitting much higher in his hoof capsule. I've just never seen anything quite like this. There is no heat, no digital pulse. He does seem just a bit "meatier" at the coronary band of his clubby foot, but it seems to all but disappear as he loads the toe, seems to be meatier again when he loads the heel. Can P3 suddenly derotate (the DDF finally relaxing) causing weird pressures at the coronary band? He looks like he has opened up in the coronary band, and now suddenly his new growth looks TOO tight. Any thoughts? This is too weird...