| First, let me thank Bev Dee, owner of Bright Futures Farm, for trusting me, and letting me work on her two horses, Brite and Maggie. Please visit Bev's webpage and see all of the wonderful horses she has available for adoption at: www.brightfuturesfarm.org. All good owners do all they can for their horses: corrective shoes, drugs and love, hoping for the best. When I spoke to Bev, she agreed to let me start work on her foundered horse, Brite, immediately. I was happy she was trusting me and I had complete faith in this trimming method. September 23, 2005 My first job was to remove Brite's glued-on shoes, which Bev had applied according to the instructions, which indicated to leave the shoes on until they fell off on their own. After removing his shoes, I stood back and wondered how much pain this horse must be in. These are the actual photos - this is how bad his flaring was. I didn't want to be aggressive with his trimming. I wanted to first get the toes shorter and clean the sole, which was actually convex (the sole was expanding outward, beyond the plane of the hoof wall). I didn't want to do it all with the first trim, I just wanted to get him on the road to recovery. Not the prettiest look but, a starting point of where we wanted to go. October 8, 2005 I told Bev that we were going to be more aggressive with this trimming. I wanted to do as much cleaning up as I could without causing unnecessary tenderness of his soles. As you can see, his soles still haven't started to be pulled up into the hoof wall. But I realized with his coffin bone separation, I would have to wait for the lamina to attach and pull the sole up with the P3. As you can see, there's an improvement over what we first saw, but still a lot of work ahead. |
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