Questions on Club Foot - Update with X-Rays - Update *Hoof pictures!

A few more pictures of Sirrey and his foot. The top picture is surgery day mid August and the bottom pic is Dec 7th. The new growth is amazing and looking sooo good!! I couldn’t be happier with the progress. Now he is due for a trim and of course he just lost his shoe the other day, but farrier comes out tomorrow to re trim him and put his shoe back on.
He is literally 1.5 years old (as of the 6th) and I’m very happy on how he’s maturing. He’s my first home bred horse and it took me years to be able to breed him and pick the right mare. I’m hoping the bump at the surgery site will go down (the surgeon said it will go down over time as he’s growing) and I just purchased a red light therapy leg wrap and I’m just waiting for it to arrive so I can see if it will help. He also has some white hair where he was bandaged burned, but those don’t bother me too much. Nothing a little black spray can’t cover :wink:

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Wow! Happy for you two!

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That’s a big change! That’s great! He’s a lovely looking baby :slightly_smiling_face:

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Might be a good listen on the subject:

He’s so pretty. Good luck!

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that is SO fantastic!

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Thank you for sharing - that new hoof growth is so good and tight!!! And that is a very good looking young horse!

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Truly an amazing change for the better!

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Another update on my coming 2 year old and his club foot, and this is 7 months (almost to the date) since his check ligament desmotomy. The old foot has almost all grown out now and its looking almost “normal”. Of course it will always be a bit smaller that the other hoof, but I can’t believe the difference.

He does have a bump higher up on his leg at the incision site (I forgot to take a picture of it but its hard to see/show up in a photo) but it has gone down quite a bit in the past couple of months. I do use a red light therapy wrap on it every day and I’m not sure if its working or if its going down because he is growing and its just healing. It doesnt bother me to put the wrap on when he’s eating his grain though, so I will continue to do it for now.

The bump was golf ball sized in December before I got the wrap, and now it just looks like he’s popped a splint (though I know its not). He does have white hair on his shin from some of the old bandage burns, but that doesn’t bother me too much as its just cosmetic. I can always just spray it if I ever line show him.

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Wow!!

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I second - Wow!

That looks amazing.

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This is awesome!

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I hope you treat your farrier like royalty (I’m sure you do.) :blush:

Beautiful job, and beautiful colt!

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So nice to read a success story!

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Thanks for sharing the update and the more recent photos. That is amazing! :+1:

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My mare’s surgery was 10 years ago and she still has a tiny bump and a few white scars. It’s not unsightly or anything and she is prone to easily getting swollen for everything. Glad he’s healed so well! His hoof looks great!!

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