Comments on: Flares http://barefoothoofcare.wordpress.com A world of sound, healthy barefoot horses Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:41:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Christina http://barefoothoofcare.wordpress.com/articles/flares/#comment-6958 Christina Fri, 29 May 2009 03:20:26 +0000 http://barefoothoofcare.wordpress.com/articles/flares/#comment-6958 Hi Jen, Well I hope you understand neither of your questions has to do with flares and you just posted on this post randomly. :-) Bullnosed hinds tend to be somewhat common. I'm not sure why but it may have to do with trying to shorten the toe so much to prevent grabbing or overreaching that it distorts the hoof capsule shape. Often on a shod horse the toe is dubbed from far up the wall and this can cause that dubbed appearance. The other possibility is that the coffin bone is at a negative palmar angle. This should be confirmed by xrays. If the back of the CB is lower than the front, you'll have to adjust the trim and get the heels to grow. You may need to seek professional help for that. Hi Jen,
Well I hope you understand neither of your questions has to do with flares and you just posted on this post randomly. :-) Bullnosed hinds tend to be somewhat common. I’m not sure why but it may have to do with trying to shorten the toe so much to prevent grabbing or overreaching that it distorts the hoof capsule shape. Often on a shod horse the toe is dubbed from far up the wall and this can cause that dubbed appearance. The other possibility is that the coffin bone is at a negative palmar angle. This should be confirmed by xrays. If the back of the CB is lower than the front, you’ll have to adjust the trim and get the heels to grow. You may need to seek professional help for that.

]]> By: Jen http://barefoothoofcare.wordpress.com/articles/flares/#comment-6956 Jen Fri, 29 May 2009 02:06:52 +0000 http://barefoothoofcare.wordpress.com/articles/flares/#comment-6956 What about a bullnosed hind? I have just acquired a very ouchy navicular horse with some pretty bad distortion in his fronts (classic long toe, low heel) and I've been pretty agressive with bringing his toe back under him with excellent results (walking sound three weeks after pulling shoes!) However, his hinds have an odd bullnosed appearance (I've not brought these toes back, his angles appear correct), is this some kind of separation? What about a bullnosed hind? I have just acquired a very ouchy navicular horse with some pretty bad distortion in his fronts (classic long toe, low heel) and I’ve been pretty agressive with bringing his toe back under him with excellent results (walking sound three weeks after pulling shoes!) However, his hinds have an odd bullnosed appearance (I’ve not brought these toes back, his angles appear correct), is this some kind of separation?

]]> By: Horsesfirst http://barefoothoofcare.wordpress.com/articles/flares/#comment-5890 Horsesfirst Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:13:50 +0000 http://barefoothoofcare.wordpress.com/articles/flares/#comment-5890 Jackie - Try looking at your white line problem the other way around. The dirt is not forcing the white line apart - it is instead getting into a white line that is separating. This often happens because the horse/pony has too much sugar in its diet. This includes molasses and easily digested starches. Try removing ALL sources of sugar and easily digested starch from the diet and your white line - with correct trimming and appropriate exercise should start to tighten up. Then you won't have dirt in it any more. Jackie – Try looking at your white line problem the other way around. The dirt is not forcing the white line apart – it is instead getting into a white line that is separating. This often happens because the horse/pony has too much sugar in its diet. This includes molasses and easily digested starches. Try removing ALL sources of sugar and easily digested starch from the diet and your white line – with correct trimming and appropriate exercise should start to tighten up. Then you won’t have dirt in it any more.

]]> By: Jackie http://barefoothoofcare.wordpress.com/articles/flares/#comment-3579 Jackie Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:13:21 +0000 http://barefoothoofcare.wordpress.com/articles/flares/#comment-3579 I have a competition horse who is 7 years old. She was shod for 5 of those seven years. She is quite badly pigeon toed and i've been barefooting her for the last 12 months and have been battling dirt compacting into the lanimer line and forcing the wall and white line apart. Under instruction of my vet, i've been cutting the wall back to were the infestation of compressed dirt begins in atempt to eliminate the groove so that no other dirt can pack there in the future. However, as she is pigeon toed, most of the wight is bared on the outside of the foot and is the primary area were the dirt packs in between the white line and the hoof wall. And when i trim the wall back as instructed it only seems to exasabate the problem as it allows the outside of the hoof to be shorter and bear more weight. Any advice you could give me would be much appreciated as i'm a little sceptical of the advice i have thus far recieved. I have a competition horse who is 7 years old. She was shod for 5 of those seven years. She is quite badly pigeon toed and i’ve been barefooting her for the last 12 months and have been battling dirt compacting into the lanimer line and forcing the wall and white line apart.
Under instruction of my vet, i’ve been cutting the wall back to were the infestation of compressed dirt begins in atempt to eliminate the groove so that no other dirt can pack there in the future. However, as she is pigeon toed, most of the wight is bared on the outside of the foot
and is the primary area were the dirt packs in between the white line and the hoof wall.
And when i trim the wall back as instructed it only seems to exasabate the problem as it allows the outside of the hoof to be shorter and bear more weight.

Any advice you could give me would be much appreciated as i’m a little sceptical of the advice i have thus far recieved.

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