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Calf-Kneed / Club Foot (no dish)

Posted by Dianna at 2006-08-12 10:12:13

Do you have any suggestions on things to take into consideration when shoeing a horse that is:

* quite large (at age 4, he is 70" at the withers),

* has a club foot (no dish, no remodeling of the
coffin bone - x-rays of the hoof look fine)

* has had 2 check lig. surgeries (so extra scar
tissue)

* and is calf kneed.

Response by Chris Gregory, MS, CJF, FWCF at 2006-08-12 16:18:26

If this horse belonged to one of my customers, I would shoe at the natural angle, and probably use a wide webbed egg-bar with a pretty severe rocker toe. Did you have a toe-extension on after the inferior check ligament desmotomy? That would have helped the club foot, but had a detrimental effect on the calf knees. Calf kneed is a pretty bad conformation, and I would avoid breeding this horse if it is still a stud.

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