Navicular Starting???

[GreyMare]

Did have a very good farrier but since I moved my mare to a pasture boarding situation he won't come...only comes to larger barns.
Used the farrier that comes to care for the horses at the pasture boarding situation and he did well until recently it was noted that she had developed long toe/low heel.
Got a recommendation for a better farrier from a vet and he seems to be doing a decent job. However noticed today that 3 of her 4 feet seem to be about the same size/height...but her slightly clubby foot has a really high heel, shorter toe than the other 3 feet. She also recently developed pain at the rear of her clubby foot. While brushing mud off the back of her foot is when I noticed the soreness. Poked at it slightly with the hoof pick and sure enough that is where she's sore. At the upper portion of her left heel bulb in an area that doesn't touch the ground.
Is this the beginning of navicular or what?? Not sure what I'm dealing with here. I will be calling the current farrier out to lower that foot and to investigate the pain. She's not lame on the foot (yet).
Thanks,
GreyMare

[calshoer]

Navicular pain is located deep inside the foot, not in an area where you could detect it with just a hoof pick or your fingers. There could be any other number of other little thngs going on that clould cause the type of pain you could find, siuch as thrush, a bruise on the soft bulb of the heel, an abscess etc. The farrier should be able to sort it out.
As for the one club foot being shorter in the toe and higher in the heel compared to the otehr feet, that is perfectly normal for club feet, to varying degrees. It could be that since she is now in a pasture setting she is able to wear the club foot more as it really wants to be. Pictures would help advise you better in your individual case. .If you take hoof pictures they need to be taken close up with the camera nearly on (or right on) the gound so they are a true lateral view. And some sole pictures close up also with the camera pointing straight at the bottom of the sole,. not from an angle or angled toward the toe from from the heels. Patty