Re: Stone Bruise (was Re: lameness question)

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:48:00 -0700 (PDT), cindi
<allisonacres@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Jul 7, 6:47 pm, Bill Kambic <wkam...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> I think that's why our ancestors invented shoes.  :-)
>
>I don't have a single thing against the shoes for horses that are like
>OUR shoes - flexible, removable.

If horse feet were like human feet it might be a good thing.

>> It doesn't take a stone to bruise a sole.  Three years ago my mare
>> gave herself the Mother of All Sole Bruises (which quickly became
>> Mother of All Abscesses) while stomping flies.  She was dead lame on
>> one foot for a day, lame to two more, then sound once the absess burst
>> in three places.  The bruise was really dramatic.
>
>It is almost surely the case that this bruise came from the coffin
>bone pounding down, not from anything on the ground pounding up.

Perhaps.  Perhaps not.