Beckie Mabbutt

This horse was sold with feet this long!! I'm always surprised that people don't send them away with feet in a relatively maintained condition.

This is a horse called Lilly owned by Amanda White. Lilly has never had shoes on, and is in work. She gets trimmed every 3 months and I wanted to show you how she naturally wears her break-over. This is a perfect example of how a horse wears their toe if left to their own devices. Click on one of the images below to see a few more pictures.

These are the hind feet of a pony I recently did at Arundel Vets. He had suffered from Laminitis and the Pedal bone on his hind feet had rotated. When I trimmed back the long toe that he had I found that he had some Seedy Toe. This is a bacterial infection, and had caused a cavity between the dead Laminae you can see and the hoof wall. The bacteria can't breed when the air can get to it, so removing all the necrotic tissue will help.

Click on one of the images above to see more cases with Seedy Toe.