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Ute <ute@...>
 

Could be several issues:
 
  • Incorrect trimming leading to high heels and possible heel contraction causing pain or cutting too much sole and frog, possibly leading to tenderness
  • Horse might be metabolically challenged by the diet causing loss of concavity, making the hoof more tender and in addition could cause frog deterioration, which in turn might cause deep frog clefts with thrush problems.
 
The fact that the horse has possibly underrun heels is an indication to me that the horse might indeed be metabolically affected by too many NSCs (starches,sugars and fructans) in the diet. It tends to cause excessive toe growth /flare due to looser laminae connection that also tends to pull the heels under. It would also mean that the horse is constantly affected by low levels of inflammation in the hooves. Typical warning sign that a horse is metabolically affected are:
  • Tender feet
  • Thin soles & hoof walls
  • White line separation or disease
  • Ripples and/or red lines growing down the hoofwall (sign of consistent compromise of hoofwall to laminae connection)
  • Frequent thrush problems
  • Ratty looking frogs and/or with deep central frog clefts
  • Dropped soles (loss of sole concavity)
  • Excessive toe growth (toe flare) with underslung heels
  • Softer hoofwall and sole
  • General excessive chipping, cracking and flaring (not trim related)
  • Easy bruising and abscessing
  • Poor wound healing
 
Egg bar shoes are only a band-aid solution. All  cases of egg bar shoes I have encountered eventually failed and the horse became even more lame. I would not recommend this solution.
 
Best wishes in finding the real root cause :-)
 
Ute
 
 
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Ute Miethe  - LMT/LAMT NCTMB
Nationally Certified Massage Therapist & Natural Performance Barefoot Trimmer
 

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:11 PM
Subject: [ECHoof] egg bar shoes

I have a freind's whose horse has been trimmed for quite sometime by a
natural trimmer. Well, the horse began having lamenss issues that were
hard to pinpoint. THe vet had him for a day doing nerve blocks and
concluded he had underun heals, thin soles and needs egg bar shoes....
Comments anyone?
Ann-Marie
whitehorsebullet
 

I have a freind's whose horse has been trimmed for quite sometime by a
natural trimmer. Well, the horse began having lamenss issues that were
hard to pinpoint. THe vet had him for a day doing nerve blocks and
concluded he had underun heals, thin soles and needs egg bar shoes....
Comments anyone?
Ann-Marie
Rebecca Wyatt <bellafly@...>
 

Ask the vet what the eggbar shoes are supposed to do that a proper trim, boots and pads couldn't accomplish. What nerve blocks did the vet do? If the horse has been trimmed properly for 'quite some time', it's interesting that the heels were still underrun (and that the soles were thin).

Rebecca
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http://www.superhoof.org 

 

 

I have a freind's whose horse has been trimmed for quite sometime by a
natural trimmer. Well, the horse began having lamenss issues that were
hard to pinpoint. THe vet had him for a day doing nerve blocks and
concluded he had underun heals, thin soles and needs egg bar shoes....
Comments anyone?
Ann-Marie

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Claire Vale <clairevale@...>
 

Hi Ann-Marie,

There are a wide range of 'natural trimmers' out there - some good, and
unfortunately, some not-so-good. Without knowing more about this
particular case (what they started with, and what they've been doing),
there's no way of knowing if the trim is appropriate. The breakover
point might have been left too far forward (dragging the heels forward),
or the heels too long, or ... The fact that he's begun to have lameness
issues does suggest that there's something not quite right. It might be
the feet, it might be the diet, it might be metabolic, or any
combination. But again, no way to know without a lot more info.

I agree that Egg Bars are only a Band-Aid solution, and all too often
they don't even work all that well right from the git-go. Better to
look for the CAUSE of the problem and work on that, than attempt to fix
one symptom.

Claire Vale
New Zealand

-----Original Message-----
From: ECHoof@... [mailto:ECHoof@...] On Behalf
Of whitehorsebullet
Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2008 5:11 p.m.
To: ECHoof@...
Subject: [ECHoof] egg bar shoes

I have a freind's whose horse has been trimmed for quite sometime by a
natural trimmer. Well, the horse began having lamenss issues that were
hard to pinpoint. THe vet had him for a day doing nerve blocks and
concluded he had underun heals, thin soles and needs egg bar shoes....
Comments anyone?
Ann-Marie




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