Archie's seedy toe problems - the story so far

Archie scrambled in a horse float March 2009. On the left rear leg you will see a cut on his coronary band.

I didn't know it at the time but this cut was going to cause me problems in the future

(my focus was on the big cut on the other leg).

May 2009 the cut has grown down the front of the hoof and is now a hole on Archie's hoof wall.

The damage on Archie's hoof grew down the hoof and turned black. When it reached the bottom instead of growing out the weakened hoof split. Seedy toe was present in this split and "Farrier 1" attempted to repair this by cutting it out. This repair was unsuccessful.

(December 2009) Seedy Toe repair fail. The seedy toe had been cut out but the hoof wall had been left too long. The arched hole was filled with putty but this fell out within a day. The hoof wall was weakened and a big piece broke off the side. What a disaster!

March 2010, (rear hooves). My solution to fix the seedy to problem was to grow out the damage and give Archie a full set  of shoes. I thought this would reinforce his hooves and give them a chance to grow the cracks out. It worked for a while, but then I had a new problem - over-reaching and seedy toe in nail holes.

Every time Archie pulls a shoe off the farrier has to add an extra set of holes to put a new shoe back on again.
When a horse is losing shoes regularly the end result is a hoof that looks like swiss cheese. The hoof wall is weakened and seedy toe gets into the holes.