http://www5.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=1305168027/a=2603278027_2603278027/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish/

I hope the above link works. Let me know if it does not.

I apologize for lack of photos. We were busy and the horse was blocked and sedated.

I was presetned with this draft horse at the Vet clinic. I worked on it as a collaberation with two other farriers. The person in the cowboy hat was the one who applied the shoes. The owner maintains it "just happened because of..."

I apologize. The clinic was busy and I did not get a photo of the rads. They showed on the RF what appeared to be a dark lind on the outer edge fo the coffin bone. Infection? The other thought was that it was a wedge caused by the growth of the foot. We began with the RF because if it was going to be infected, we would have pout the horse down then and there.

After removing the shoes and finding several hot nails, fungus, sole pressure and no infection to the bone; it was decided to remove as much of the garbage and distortion as we could. We filled the crevices with a ??? forgot name - thera something. Then we decided to cast the foot to add wall and integrity. Because of sinking, I cut away the casting material so there was no sole pressure.

I had some Hoot-it Technologies synthetic bar shoes. We used two 1" screws to attatch these to the casting. Then casted the shoe to the other casting material. Filled the rear half of the shoe with IM and the front half with Magic Cushion. Then I screwed a thick plastic pad to the shoe.

We did this to both feet but had trouble with the LF. Hence the table to support the horse. The blood that you see on the RF is from a hot nail that sprung a leak as some of it was shaved away during cleaning of the hoof.

We decided to leave the hind feet for another day. It had already been four hours and we did not think that horse would be able to stand on his front feet like he needed to for us to work.

What do you all think?
Thankyou,
Tony

THamilton wrote:I think you guys deserve a medal.

Given the starting point, an awesome job IMO.

man, that looked really interesting. when will the horse be re-evaluated?

Tony Why can i only See One picture?
Sounds really interesting

Same here, I am not real computer savy, but would like to see how that one turned out.

Me three. Id like to see more than the cover picture.

Me four , do we have to download snapfish?

freaky sad. I feel bad for the horse. But when I was done with the slide show. It asked if I wanted to buy that nasty foot on a coffee cup! Now thats my kind of cup.

dave murray wrote:
That's what I had to do to view the slideshow.

It looks like you've significantly improved the situation. Here's hoping you've given the horse a chance. Well done for giving it your very best efforts.

However what I really think is..... How the heck can anyone own a horse and allow it to get into that state before proper farriery and veterinary treatment is undertaken. Shameful!!!

Sorry guys, I did not realize you had to download snapfish. It was just soemthing I tried.

I do not know when the horse will be reevaluated. I could not pin the owner down for another date to follow. I have two thouhgts on it. One being allow the horse to grow some foot now that it is stabilized. Say... at least two months. Because we had to remove so much foot and the casting material is stabilizing and supporting the foot, I believe that as long s the lamness subsides, there would be no benefit to disturb the feet. The horse was really sore and the feet were inflammed tremendousily.

The other line of thought is to check it in say four weeks... BUT What would I be doing??? :confused: There would be minimal growth, the inflammation will have sibsided, the foot will be stabilized and then it gets robbed of all that without having a chance to REALLY get new growth.

The cracks and fungus were treated. The shoes offer ample support. The owner and the shoer that they hired, was told that they could remove the plate on the bottom to check the hoof packing and replace it if needed.

I feel that waiting at least eight... but rather would go 12 weeks then remove the packages and redo the feet. The horse is not being used, needs support and and good growth to get the better. IMO. I also reccommended the horse be put on Hawthorne Powder, MSM (pharmacutical grade) and Tumeric.

Tony

In a word, WOW. Good work out you. Just because I worry, I would check on him at 6-8 weeks just to look for infections or what not.

you don't have to download snapfish. Just set up an account, like photobucket. You don't have to worry about getting a bunch of ****. You just have to log in.

Hope this helps.

That is a slick set up!
Nice job

I filled out the little boxes and all was good.
Thanks for sharing. I,m impressed. This would make a good case study. Any chance of seeing rads?

Use the photo albums here on the forum!

Sounds like you did a good job, but i'd like to see the pictures.

-josh