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Lori
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Username: maggienm
Post Number: 609
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, Dec 15, 2007 - 9:52 pm: |   |
After trimming my mare today she was lame on one foot. I admit I was more agressive in timming than usual. I was trying a little bit of a different technique and got the hoof quite short.
I wasn't sure what to do about her being lame on the one foot.
I noticed that the frog was lower than the rest of the foot so I trimmed it (cautiously) so it was just a tad higher than the hoof wall.
(Depending on how you read higher/lower this could be confusing, at first the frog made contact first, after trimming the wall made contact first).
That made an immediate improvement, now she was only somewhat tender.
After consideration I used the hoof knife and pared some of the mealy sole off her toe.
Interesting- I saw what looked like the beginning of blood spots but they pared off and underneath was hard sole.
I know that the soft flakey sole is dead and ok to pare off but how do you know if you are going too deep?
Anyway after this next adjustment she appeared sound, I think she was still a wee bit tender tho as every few steps she took a short step.
She is such a good girl.
So, could someone explain to me what I did??? and why pareing her sole helped?
The frog part makes sense, usually I don't take her hoof down enough to need to do more than trim the rough off her frog.
also, when I was really digging around by the frog it seemed like the sulcus didn't really bottom out, it seemed to just get very narrow.
I hope that makes sense.
Thanks for your help. |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: dro
Post Number: 19716
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Sunday, Dec 16, 2007 - 5:25 pm: | |
Lori it sounds like your first trimming exposed some solar areas to excessive pressure during weight bearing (ground contact) and then you corrected it, but I am just guessing from your description and some details are a bit inconsistent with this idea. For instance if you trimmed the foot very short initially as you indicate in your post there should not be much leeway to remove even more sole with excessively thinning the sole which would lead to lameness too.
DrO |
