Beckie Mabbutt

Below are a few pictures of a new Arab I got to shoe recently that had very long tube like feet. It was made very clear once one foot was trimmed just how much they benefited to being re-balanced. Just look at the difference in the coronary band height.

Despite a few technical issues with not having the function room, not enough chairs, the heating on full blast, the pub not serving food and the intermittent power cuts......! I felt the evening went really well. I hope that everyone came away with some new information.

I certainly learnt a lot from Kate Coles presentation on Nutrition. She really broke it down with some practical things you could go away and check with your horse.

It astonished me to learn the sugar content in the foods we feed that equated to 12 grams of sugar/four sugar lumps. Just one apple or four carrots equated to 12 grams of sugar!

I'd like to thank the other two speakers Becky Flinn and Kate Coles for their fantastic informative presentations, and everyone for coming and making the evening happen, especially Penny Gardner for helping with the organising.

I am planning on holding an informal Laminitis evening on 28th April. There will be three speakers and we hope that everyone will go home with a better understanding of what actually happens and why.

Please get in touch if you want more details. Numbers will be limited and I will be opening it up to those with Lamanitics first.

Below is a picture of a splint bone on a hind leg that obviously received a kick and shattered into lots of pieces. Amazingly Sian wasn't lame, and although operated on she has recovered remarkably.

This is a sequence of pictures of a polo horse that got it's foot stuck in some sheep fencing and managed to escape but tore out most of the internal structures of the back of it's foot. This included the Digital Cushion and the structures that produce the frog tissue.

It is amazing that this horse lives to tell the tale, but as a result it has many foot issues.