My mares feet were trimmed on Monday… since Wednesday she’s been lame on her front right. No swelling nothing physically visibly wrong. There is heat in her coronet band. It’s been pouring rain for the past week so things are softer than normal… Farrier seems to thing she’s going to abscess, but the heat concerns me. I’m contacting the vet today, but since it’s a holiday weekend not sure if they can get out… anyone got any ideas?
Any shoes on? I’m assuming not.
Given the timing, it’s probably a too-short trim, which may have led to the development of an abscess. The signs are all there - sore, heat in the coronet band.
For now I would treat it as an abscess. The easiest thing is to get a baby diaper, make a paste with Epsom Salts and water, pull the diaper up around the foot with the paste in it, duct tape it around the pastern (not tight, you’re just trying to keep the diaper up), then wrap the whole thing with duct tape to keep it from tearing apart.
Here’s an article showing you how to do this. Personally, I’d skip the soaking, unless you just like to do it lol In particular, see how they make the duct tape “shell” first - immense time and frustration saver.
But definitely keep trying to get hold of your vet. All good practices will have someone available 24x7. This isn’t really an emergency, but if you can at least talk to someone on the phone, that’s a start.
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It’s prettt wet out here… do you think m the diper will come off?
Also farrier is coming out today @12, and the vet can’t come today 
The duct tape will protect things for a while. You might have to redo things twice a day.
Ok perfect!! And no shoes.
Did the farrier change the angle a lot? I’ve seen horses get hot hooves and be lame for a few days after a trim, just like a laminitis attack, but have no founder or rings after. No one seemed concerned but if it were my horse I would do ice soaks and reevaluate my trimming schedule.
Doesn’t sound quite like your situation though with only coronet hot.
Edited to add: I don’t know why I got a honking big ad in the middle of mynpost. Most annoying.
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The farrier wasn’t able to stop by today he was running very behind. But yes this was his first time trimming her. And her feet were longer. Her hooves where a mess when I got her with cracks and blown abscess. The farrier where I had her training was trimming her and mine just did Monday for the first time…
