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December 12th 2005

Target Trim

The marked up X-Rays and pictures below suggest interim and long term targets, and were sent to me by several trimmers that I trust. These illustrate where Shivon's feet should be. I don't know how fast we can get them there; it's a goal.

The bottom line is, whoever trims a horse with a foot like Shivon's can consider all suggestions, but is responsibility to the horse to trim the hoof based on what the trimmer sees the hoof needs. Consulting trimmers can look at pictures and give advice, but if you're the one holding the nippers, knife and rasp, the responsibility is YOURS!

This hit home as I started trimming Shivon on Wednesday, December 21 2005.

 
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Trim December 21 2005

By the time a week had passed, Shivon's heel had gotten a bit taller. I took 3/4 of inch off and wanted to take more, but she was so terrified of loosing her heel that we stopped.

I was able to get her bars and frog in a passive position get a nice solid heel buttress in place. I did a crude job of whacking some toe off by using the nippers from the ground like Pete does it. . I wanted to clean the toe up but we still had to take X-Rays and the mare was very anxious to have this over and done.

The positive note was that she was able to weight her new heel and sole with a deep pad, and she actually rested her weight on the new foot - heel down - for a few minutes after we let her have it.

We were going to wrap and pad her foot, securing the pad with Duct Tape, so we left it at this point for a week. We still have a long way to go, but this is felt like a good first step.

I'll put the new X-rays up when I get them.

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