we seem to be lame

[Palomino Mare]

Tiffers went barefoot 2/3weeks ago - she has great feet and wasnt pottery at all.

but when i walked her up to the yard (along a tarmac track) she was soooo slow and sore footed - that was on sunday.

yesterday she looked to be going lame on her front but there was no heat from the hooves.

Shes not getting worked just now so no great changes there. is this just what happens? i thought she would of been pottery within the first few days instead of weeks. or do you think something more sinister is going on i.e. abcess?

any advice would be great - ive never had a barefooted horse before!:)

[Roofio]

bruising maybe? or a bit of sensitivity as the new grass is starting to come though?

[senjj]

Have you spoken to your trimmer?

[Palomino Mare]

roofio, thats all i hope it is,

senjj, sadly my car has had to go in for some cosmetic surgery so for the next week my friends is taking care of her - if she gets worse then my farrier will be called - i want to rule out anything less before he's called out

[capalldubh]

Poor Tiff - I think I could see her in the distance today when we went past. From the point of view of ours, the difference would be that the fields have been very soft for quite a few weeks, but by last weekend everything was drying up fast and getting harder. So if she'd been OK on quite soft ground, but suddenly had to cope with harder ground, she might have been a bit sore? It seems to depend on what bit of their foot is good - J found it really hard to deal with very soft ground last year because his soles were very thin, but he was OK on hard surfaces (had good frogs). If Tiff's soles were OK but her frogs weren't so great, it might be the other way around?

Hope she feels better soon - the feet do seem to adapt well over a couple of months :)

ETA the weather seems to have lamed our cars too, mine is falling to bits and OH's has developed something alarming wrong with the power steering!