On Jul 10, 10:56=A0am, "Ponai Mahone" <lu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Bare foot trimming may save some horses, applying shoes many have saved
> others. My horse was saved by having his tendons cut. He needed
immediate
> action if he was to keep living. His shoes were pulled because the vet
> recommended applying styro foam pads to relieve the pressure on the
hoofw=
all
> and the coffin bone. Trimming alone didn't cut it for him. In each
> individual horse it depends the degrees of rotation and the sinking of
th=
e
> coffin bone.
I don't want to say anything mean or hurtful, but didn't he then
colic? And does that mean colic and die? More and more people are
deciding that the whole health of the horse is related to those feet
functioning properly. I am very sorry for your loss (if that's what
happened) and there is no way I'd want to minimize it or make light of
it -it's awful, period.
> No, he rotated and was sinking, I think it is pretty clear from the Feb
t=
o
> March films. At the time the March rads were taken, the vet felt the
hors=
e
> was 2mm from becoming a true "sinker" ie, the coffin bone piercing the
so=
le
> of the hoof.
My horse was sinking straight down with no rotation. The DDFT is
thought to be what's pulling the coffin bone away from the hoof wall,
from the tip, back.
> Everybody else in the world would prefer not to cut tendons. It is a
salv=
age
> procedure. It works in some instances. If I had waited to see if a
barefo=
ot
> trim would work, the horse's coffin bone would have pierced the sole of
h=
is
> hoof, and it would have been all over.
I'm not sure you can predict that for sure, or with a different
(better?) trim, but all that aside, coffin bone penetration is no
longer a death sentence. All the big name barefoot folks have cured
many, many cases of that, each. Most even turn the horse out on many
acres of land and let them run around "naturally" with their coffin
bones penetrated. The movement speeds the healing. You can find case
after case of coffin bone penetration with no pain, because the two
conditions (trim, removal of the causative cir***stances). I am pretty
sure we will one day find out that we can tell if the trim is right
and if the initial insult is removed simply from whether or not the
rotation stops. Since your horse's rotation did not stop, I would say
one or both conditions were not met. A lot of barefoot folk agree
with me; I do know it's still a fringe statement.
> I don't regret having the tendons
> cut, in fact given the same set of cir***stances (rotating and sinking),
=
I
> would still have it done. As far as pain management, the release of the
> tendon on the bone was amazing. The horse didn't have the need to
shuffle
> from one foot to the other, as is the case for many horses with hoof
pain=
..
A good trim will do that too. You can read about Rain, my sinker,
after her first "barefoot trim":
http://www.allisonacres.org/rainfeet.html
She trotted for the first time in a year after that trim, and I mean
right after, and cantered the next day.
> PS His heels were appropriate for his foot size.
Cadaver study after cadaver study, as well as study of live animals,
have shown that appropriate heel height does not vary more than a tiny
tiny bit, among any breed, draft to pony. The heel height dictates
the angle of the coffin bone with the ground, and ALL horses,
regardless of how big their feet are, need coffin bones that are
almost ground parallel, or that are ground parallel. In a larger
foot, the structures are all larger, but the appropriate angles are no
different.
cindi
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