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Cynthia Godby
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Username: Cgby1
Post Number: 3
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 7:41 pm: |   |
My filly was born with her right foot contracted.Although it seemed to straighten out she has always grazed with her left leg forward and her right leg back. She was rejected about 18 hours old and I milked her mother for a week until mastitis set in. I fed her Foal-lac until she was almost 5 months old. Her 31 year old grandma fostered her, even allowing her to nurse. She also wanted to eat grandma's senior feed so I raised the feeder as high as possible. I set up a creep with Purina Junior but switched to John Lyons Mare & Foal ( Nutrena makes it) when she was able to eat a good amount of hay. For the last seven months she gets a flake of Alfalfa (as much as she would eat at night) and 2 large scoops of Mare & Foal. Plus all my horses get a wheat bran mash, about 2/3 small coffee can dry added to hot water with a couple tablespoons of molasses and some salt. She also has access to a salt block and a mineral block. She has been out all day since a few days old but had access to her creep. There has not been much grazing until April when we finally got some rain. Her heel on her right foot continues to grow too long and although it is trimmed back it just causes the toe to curl and then it breaks off. Because of what I read in the foot care section I have recently cut back on the concentrates. She is about a 5.5 to 6 on a weight scale from 1 to 10. I am wondering if she got enough copper in her diet? Is it possible her foot will change as her neck gets longer and she is able to stand more square? What would you suggest I do? |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: Dro
Post Number: 15752
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, Jun 1, 2006 - 8:34 am: | |
Copper in an unlikely cause of this as nutritional deficiencies effect all the legs and many other systems. For our suggestions on treatment Cynthia see, Equine Diseases » Lameness » Diseases of the Hoof » Club Foot.
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