Coronary Shelf

[Jaye Perry]

:( Here are a few pics of a TB Mare that came up from Florida in which her feet had no structural integrity to the wall. One could consider this a sinker but not in the usual sense.
The feet could be manipulated by hand, in other words one could wrap your hand around the horn and wringe it out like a wash cloth. The coronary band was so pronounced you could set a cup of coffee on it and it would stay there.
Massive horse with no horn integrity. Look close at the coronary band and you can see the rad paste to mark the dorsal wall.

The foot was so bad that a regular shoe waas to heavy, so I applied an Equiflex, Equithane with a regular bridge. The heartbar bridge would have been to much pressure. I also made a slight wedge with some Fast Set.

[Jaye Perry]

I forgot to pt a pic of one of the feet.

[calshoer]

Hi Jaye,
Is it the environement in Florida that does that to so many or what? I did one who came to CA from Fla a few years ago, who had just as poor hoofwall and thin soles.
To boot he was wearing HUGE thick wedge open heeled handmade shoes (swelled heels about 3/4"or more thick) ,and the frogs had prolapsed all the way through to the ground. Yep, live untrimmable frog 3/4" beyond the badly crushed heels. About a 5 or 6 degree negative plane to the coffin bones. And this horse had come from some expensive"A" show barn there.
There was absolutely no way to get any shoe with decent frog support on without practically surgically removing the frogs.
Luckily, the new stable had perfectly flat, packed hard,rock free sandy loam ground everywhere. So I pulled the shoes and had her just leave him barefoot in a big pen for ten days. He was sore three days as the frog readjusted to the support, then after he had mashed the frogs back up into the foot, was able to get around fairly sound. Because of the paper thin walls and soles , he did need shoes to be worked at all. So I then shod him with the frog suppot pads to keep things up in the foot inside the foot where they belonged.
The coffin joint alignment was perfect after that and he was soind for the first time in a couple of years. .
Interesting thing, after I left Ca, another farrier thouht the feet would be strong enough internally to go without the extra frog support, removed the pads, and in a week the frogs were prolapsed again to the ground (this time only 3/8", the thickness of the shoes) and the horse had negative planes again. (got a call from an angry vet wanting instructions on how to fix it. )
Ahh, I am glad I don't have to work in Fla. Patty

[Jaye Perry]

Hi Jaye,
Is it the environement in Florida that does that to so many or what? I did one who came to CA from Fla a few years ago, who had just as poor hoofwall and thin soles.
....this horse had come from some expensive"A" show barn there.
There was absolutely no way to get any shoe with decent frog support on without practically surgically removing the frogs.
....then after he had mashed the frogs back up into the foot, was able to get around fairly sound. Because of the paper thin walls and soles , he did need shoes to be worked at all. So I then shod him with the frog suppot pads to keep things up in the foot inside the foot where they belonged.
The coffin joint alignment was perfect after that and he was soind for the first time in a couple of years. .
Interesting thing, after I left Ca, another farrier thouht the feet would be strong enough internally to go without the extra frog support, removed the pads, and in a week the frogs were prolapsed again to the ground (this time only 3/8", the thickness of the shoes) and the horse had negative planes again. (got a call from an angry vet wanting instructions on how to fix it. )
Ahh, I am glad I don't have to work in Fla. Patty


Same senario as above. The frog was so bulbous the regular Equiflex bridge had to be used. The bridge had to be cut back just to get teh shoe nailed up. A month later a heartbar bridge was applied.
Steel shoe were not applied for 4 months, then a heartbar with a leather pads. The horse stayed in one of my customer's barn's for a year and then was shipped back to Florida :mad:

Enviroment plays a key role in the integrity and stability of the foot. I shoe and have shod horses all over he country and if one can do this in their carrers one can formulate distinct shoeing protocals for each region(s). What works in one part of the country may not work in other parts of the country.
Come play in my sandbox and you will have one monsterous headache :D