Made it with minutes to spare before they closed the exhibitors hall. Please come by the booth and say hi if you are here. I already met three people I "Know" but never met. A lot of fun.

The booth and banners look great!!! Good job Steve and Ronda!

Tapatalk means I can be shoeing AND keeping in touch. Love it.

Just saw Alicia, another Canadian like Alex. Also saw many other Horseshoes.com folks already today including Rick Shepard, Mark Gough, and Jack Evers (see attached). Having a really good time.

Take more pictures! I'm sure I am not the only one who wanted to go but couldn't, so we're going to live vicariously through you.

cyber steve wrote:
w'hos who

Left to Right
Me, Jack, Rick, Mark

If anyone is at the summit and needs a quick tutorial on the site I would be glad to help run you though it if you stop by the booth (or the Bar!)

Steve, it was great to meet you in Cincy.... as usual, a great Summitt.... I hope everyone was able to stay to the end on Friday and caught Esco Buff's "retracted" sole presentation..... worth the price of admission.....

Sad that we have 50,000 +/- farriers and only 500 of them manage to end up at the IHCS??????

Dave

Dave, would you care to elaborate on the "retracted sole" presentation for those of us who were unable to attend?

Same here, wish I could have gone. Can Esco come and describe or someone can give us some bullet points? Very interested!

Looks like a fun time!

Seth and Brian,

I wouldn't pretend to do Dr. Buff's presentation justice and I do hope he jumps on here himself to enlighten us......

That being said, I will tell you my take..... in a nutshell, he has found many thin , (5mm range), soled horses that palpate very sore with minimal thumb pressure that seem to have a previously normal depth sole that has suddenly retracted up into the hoof as if it has "dried up and shrunk". He identifies them by a telltale abrupt drop off of the sole just slightly, (1/16th inch), inside of the white line, producing an exaggerated cupping of the sole. He has seen them in all breeds and sizes from pony to draft. The only apparent common denominator is mud, though he has seen herds of 20 where only one or two horses get it. By shoeing and padding, many resolve in a very short time, just a couple of weeks in many cases. Some came back quickly on barefoot horses just by rinsing the mud off each night when they came in to be stalled, not allowing the mud to remain in the feet overnight.
These can easily be confused with regular thin soled feet if not recognized for this unique pathology. The danger at that point is thinking all the "excess" hoof wall you see protruding past the sole is extra length that could be wrongly trimmed off leaving the foot too short, exacerbating the situation.

Hope this helps a little... his presentation was much more involved than this...

Dave

I had to be back in Denver Sat Morning and missed the presentation (4:11 flight), but I had this phenomena pointed out to me on some x-rays a few years back (don't remember who). I have since seen it on a few of Allie Hayes freeze dried models, and am now aware of it, but wonder how many of those that I have inadvertently quicked with the nippers over the years fell into this category and would have been recognizeable with what I know today. If you get that quick drop in the sole, beware. There may not be much sole there.