Beckie Mabbutt

I've just added another Laminitis case study that I did a while back, click on one of the images below to go and see the full case.

For a hoof to function properly the frog needs to be in contact with the ground during weight bearing whether shod or not. Here are two examples of different horses. Pede's frog on the right is pretty well perfect it still contacts the ground even with the thickness of the shoe. Click on the image on the right to read more about them.

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Today the record was broken for the youngest person to take a shoe off on my books. Max Newton aged 8 astounded me today when he confidently took a shoe off his pony Micky with no help from me at all. I can really see a farrier in the making here he didn't seem to struggle at all and didn't once say he couldn't do it. Fantastic determination. A big well done Max you were a star.

I went to shoe Cleo today for Donna Pegler and he had just received an injury to his coronary band. It look like he had been trodden on by another horse as it was on the outside of his foot. His leg was slightly filled so just to be safe Donna called the vet out. The vet prescribed a course of Antibiotics and Bute, and Donna was told to keep it as dry as possible and clean it with hibbiscrub twice a day. If a flap  occurs on the wound the vet will have to be called again. This sort of injury causes quite a problem because the horn tubules grow down from the coronary band so Cleo is likely to have a permanent defect to this part of his foot from now on.

This is what it looked like today. I will take photo's of it every 5 weeks to track how it develops.