@Pally, ok, answers to my Post #2. You did good but fasten you’re seatbelt, lollol
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Front End. Yes, some shoulder/neck problems driven by two things:
1.1 Ongoing issues from serious founder/rotation in 2012 and again in 2015. The LF was the worst in 2012. The RF was the worst in 2015.
1.2. He now wears corrective shoes with packing and lily pads. No club hoof but I can see where that could be a conclusion:)
- Back End, which is the real crux of the issues of every structural misalignment he suffers.
2.1. A fractured sacrum in 2007, that he re-fractured in March, 2019 during a big hail storm and I couldn’t get either horse in the barn in time.
This is what almost killed him. I texted the pics to the vet and she later told me, she was in tears coming up the hill, thinking she would have to PTS this horse.
- Replay the video in slo-mo and look closely above the tail dock. There is a large swelling of edema and arthritis up there.
3.1. I already had a genius of a therapeutic farrier managing this horse’s founder. Being sickle-hocked was not doing the re-fractured sacrum any favors. The farrier took a pair of Natural Balance shoes and customized them to accommodate the fractured sacrum AND the sickle hocks,
I am not smart enough to understand what in the hay she did with those shoes, but this horse walked off, down the gravel drive, like nobody’s business. He never had a sore moment in those shoes.
What you see in the video is a happy horse with four orthotic shoes, lol. The fact that he could turn as sharp as he did in the video was a happy tears moment.
she took the back shoes off over the winter and he did pretty good but I can see the way his hooves are wearing that it’s time to put the rear shoes back on.
- This has been a “putting Humpty Dumpty back together again” experience and it still takes a lot to keep his ears forward but his sweet self has a lot drive — so I will keep having the equine chiro see him at four weeks, the farrier shoe him at five weeks, the traditional vet as-needed, and me doing what they all tell me to, lol.
Given all the issues (now he’s also on Prascend for Cushings), I think you did pretty good:). He has problems from front-to-back but the twice fractured sacrum drives most it.
FWIW, these are his back shoes. They do not have trailers on them. They do, however, have a bit of an extension on the outside wall of each shoe. The nails are copper to help with anaerobic issues.
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