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Discussion on Founder or Injury?
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Saevyn
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Posted on Friday, Feb 27, 2004 - 1:46 pm:
Being very inexperienced with the young last year, for a month I fed my 5 month old colt approx. 9 lbs of grain along with 1 flake of alfalfa a day. It took about a month to realize I was turning him into one hot crazy little guy and thankfully I quit. Now, at 11 1/2 months old I realized about 1 inch below his coronet dead center on his rear right hoof is missing an 1/3"x1/3" piece of his hoof. He shows no sign of lameness. Could this have been the result of that month long pounding of feed or more likely an injury? (He's on three and a half acres of pasture which has rocks and gullies etc and is with another 2 year old stud and a 7 year old gelding they all get along fine).
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Canyon28
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Posted on Friday, Feb 27, 2004 - 2:20 pm:
This is most likely from an old injury to the coronet band that is growing out. He probably stepped on himself in all his overfed exuberance! This could also be caused by hitting his coronet band hard on a large rock. It could also be caused by a blown out abcess, but if you never noticed he was lame, then this is probably not the case. Injuries to the coronet band grow out down the hoof as the foot grows out. I have a mare that banged her front foot last summer at the coronet band, it bled alot however and could not have been missed. It has been growing out now, and the spot were it happened has made a divit in the hoof wall as it is growing out, the hoof above it nearer to the coronet band ,is growing out normally. If the injury to the coronet is bad enough, it may cause a permanent disfigurement to the hoof wall, that will always grow out that way, it will never return to normal. I also had a horse like that.
Chris www.canyonrimranch.net
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Saevyn
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Posted on Friday, Feb 27, 2004 - 2:51 pm:
Thanks for your imput Christine, above the missing hoof there is normal hoof and coronet. I am hoping there won't be too much of a problem as the hoof grows down, I'll certainly have to have my ferrier keep an eye on it. I'm thinking it might need some type of bonding agent because it will be just off the center of the toe and worse, I'll bet it will be there just about the time he's ready to go to my trainer to be broke, and needing to be shod.
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