Unusual callouses, dramatic changes

[xoethecat]

I want to post a before and after pic on my mother's horse's feet, it is very interesting (to me anyway) to see the changes his feet are making as they get less and less distorted. I wanted to see what you think also regarding his callouses at the seats of corn - they are varying heights about the live sole plane and they protrude quite a bit - the only other comparison I have is my horse who is a wild mustang and has perfect feet, by comparison my mom's horse's soles are wavy bumpy mysterious messes but I have seen some great changes in them and I'd like input. Can someone let me know how to post a picture so I can put them up for you to see? I'd also like a critique on how I'm doing with the trim. Thanks!

[Red Amor]

Gday Mate
Please post away, a pictures worth a thousand words yeah?

[calshoer]

First make sure the picture is small enough, I think the site accepts about 320 by 280 . (if it is too big it wil tell you when you try to upload it). And be sure it is Jpeg format, because bitmap won't load, they are too large.

All you do is: before you post the text, scroll a little farther down the forum page to the "manage attachments" box.

Click "browse"

Choose where your picture is in your computer, (desktop, or some file or wherever it is )
You may have to work through several files to get to the picture if it is within a file somewhere .

For example in my computer I browse to "my pictures" , and select.
All the files in My Pictures show up.
Then I click the file that containes the picture I want...select.
That file opens
Then I click the actual picture IN that file,....select.
When the picture has been selected, I go back to the manage atachments box and click "upload".
If it is small enough it will go in . If not it will tell you the picture is too large so you will have to edit it down .
Hope that helps. i

[xoethecat]

The computer that has the pics on it can't be connected to the web at the moment, so it'll be a little while. I looked at the pics again and actually it's very hard to see it in the pic if you didn't feel it with your hands and know what was there. I'll have to draw on them a little or put in a seperate pic which shows what I mean.
Also,about my other horse I wanted to add in here somewhere that I am now getting people stopping me along the road, in cars and on foot, and following me up to my house to tell me what a great looking horse I have, how great his conformation and gaits are, etc. I got that a lot when I first had him, he's a mustang (which makes it even odder to get compliments - usually people say something helpful like "Aren't most of them ugly?" or back away in fear of a half asleep 13hh pony) and he had been getting natural trimwork done when he was at the local horse rescue, so his feet were perfect when I got him. Then for two years I had the best most educated (two years at Colombia University, all sorts of stuff), best reputation possible, farrier in the area (he was hard to get, too) just to keep trimming them barefoot because I wanted the best care for them. And people stopped asking me about my horse. Now his feet are getting to where they should be and he can move like he used to, he's a traffic hazard again!

[xoethecat]

I wanted to say also that since those callouses along the side of the frog came off, his feet have gotten a lot more concave. That sounds a little obvious, but what I mean is they have gotten even more concave than from the simple shedding of that extra dead sole. It's really nice to see since his hooves used to be much shallower than on my mustang and they are pretty much the same size and weight. His feet are still way too ovoid, long toes and heels not yet down to where they look happy, but he moves so much more easily now and gaits all the time. His feet are much steeper in the toe than they used to be, and his heels did go down the most so far with this last trim. The weird thing is as he has gotten rid of his no longer needed callous, my mustang has built some up along the sides of the frog. Not nearly as thick or as prominent, but I wonder why. It would worry me except that his feet are always easy to trim nicely and it is easy to keep them in good shape, whereas the horse who is experiencing all these positive changes still has wierd feet issues, they look much better but he's only maybe halfway there. I've been pretty conservative with him becuase he's sound and because the changes are so dramatic, I don't need to be aggressive with lowering the heels or rasping the walls way down. He's almost out of flare too, which means that his feet may stay looking pretty ovally for a while until he works out what he needs. I do rocker the toes, and he gets around much much better than he used to. He used to have traditionally trimmed flipper feet! Each time his toes continue to move back too. It's pretty amazing!