Beckie Mabbutt

I've been involved in a research project recently to try and prove another measurement we're taking on the foot to help accurately find the tip of the pedal bone so we can place break-over accurately.

We used 24 legs for this study one front and one hind from each horse of all different sizes and foot types.

Between myself, Chris Wiggins and Richard Lovejoy (two other highly skilled Farriers) we exfoliated, measured, mapped out and placed metal markers in various places on the foot to get the feet ready to be radio-graphed. We kindly had the assistance of Kelly from Bell Equine Veterinary Hospital for taking the radiographs.

We were trying to confirm that the accurate length of the central sulcus of the frog is the same length as from the widest part of the foot forward to the tip of the pedal bone.

This is only the start of the study and I will add some of the radiographs shortly, but what we wanted to show from this came out spot on. Here are some pictures of the process.