If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll know I picked Nilla up a few weeks ago. So you’d think I’d have lots of posts about her. Alas, when I picked her up, her foot looked like this:
before
And no, her foot does not normally look like that. She was actually totally sound and going just fine. I did a few lessons with Laura when I picked her up. But I really didn’t want to ride her until I could get her feet fixed. I was worried about the strain on her tendons with her foot like that. I’m not as balanced a rider as Laura and our footing is terrible. it didn’t seem worth the risk. I contacted my farrier as soon as I came home, but he was on vacation and the earliest he could see her was the 10th, which then turned into the 12th because reasons.
The front left was the most warped, but all of her feet were oddly shaped. Her front right foot looked like this:
before
It’s nearly club-footed and she does not have a club foot. Her feet have never looked like this. My farrier was shocked and not happy about it. He did say it’s fixable though and was able to get it back to almost normal in one trim. The picture below is from about an hour after the trim and he predicted the leg would go back to the correct shape within a week or so and she’ll be back to normal within a few trim cycles. The rest of ours are due at the beginning of May so she’ll get another trim soon, which he thinks should really help as well.
after
Her feet don’t look normal yet, but wow do they look so much better.
after
We’ll be back to riding as soon as this freaking rain stops although I am really stuck on what to do about a saddle for her. Laura also found that she was particularly sensitive to the saddle not fitting right and I know her saddle doesn’t fit her. But that’s another project for another day. At least she’s back to rideable.
Thanks for the update. Those feet though. I would not be happy about it all.
I was not happy. I remain not happy. It’s scary how quickly that happened.
Her poor feet and legs 🙁 They look a lot better now than when she came home.
Yes, one trim fixed a lot of it.
What an amazing job your farrier was able to do in one trim. But how did that even happen? Poor Nilla. I hope she has no issues and you can get back to riding her.
She looks much better now and we should be back to riding today.
Wow! That’s terrible! I’m glad you were able to get her back on track pretty quickly. Poor Nilla!
She looks so much better now
Wow….what the heck happened to those hooves?? Glad your farrier was able to get her back on track pretty quickly. Poor Nilla!
They got trimmed wrong while she was away
That’s a super weird trim… glad you got it sorted out! 🙂
That hoof! I’ve never seen anything like that… Really glad you’ve got her on the up and up. Amazing what a good trim will do.
It’s also scary what a bad trim will do. And just how much a good farrier can make/break your horse.
Fucking hell man! What person did her feet while she was away!!
I do not know, but now she is home and will only be seen by my farrier.
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That is beyond uncool. How can anyone see that and be like “yup this is normal”???