Sensitive hooves - after trim - week 1

On the Saturday 18/09/10 Archie was a demonstration horse at a hoof trimming workshop. Archie had his shoes removed from his front hooves and a correct trim performed by Peter from Hoofworks. 

Archie is sensitive without shoes on his front hooves. This has been my main reason for shoes in the past.

This time we are working on strengthening Archie's hooves.

I am keeping notes on his progress.

Saturday 18 September 2010 

Barefoot trim

Sunday 19 September 2010

Archie is extremely sensitive and limping in both front hooves on grass and on hard gravel driveway. We walked very slow.

Monday 20 September 2010

Archie was cantering on the grass and showed no signs of sensitivity. However when walking on the hard driveway he was limping again but not as severe as Sunday.

Tuesday 21 September 2010

The sensitivity only appears to be on the right fore now when walking on the hard driveway. Today I took Archie up to the round yard and chased him around so he would trot freely. I noticed on this course sand surface he was limping slightly on his right fore.


Wednesday 22 September 2010

Got my file and Bug Buster liquid today. I practised my filing Archie's back hooves. I was surprised how much I remembered from the course. I was on my own and was able to work with no one holding his head. Very happy with this and keen to learn more.
Today I cleaned Archie's front hooves with metho and applied Bug Buster to the seedy to affected areas. I then wrapped his hooves in Vet wrap. It has been raining and the wrap will help the Bug Buster stay on long enough to be effective.


Archie was still sensitive walking on the driveway. Even when his feet were wrapped up.

Thursday 22 September 2010

Only the right foot had the vet wrap still on.

Archie is still sensitive on the driveway. We were walking on it with a long lead rope and I noticed he chose to step up on the grass.

I tried him in the round yard and I did not notice any sensitivity.

Saturday 24 September 2010

Today there was no limping on the driveway but he still chose to step up on the grass a couple of times. I'm guessing he still feels a bit sensitive on this surface.