Frequent wild horse trims work better on founder than horseshoes and improve movement. Laminitis: medical aspects, prevention, normal and foundered hoof cross-sections, hoof diagrams, case studies. New York City Guide - Historical Guide Series from the Federal Writers Project. Nutmeg Woodworking Carving News - Upcoming events, shows, classes plus website and product updates. Secrets.com: Job Interview Online Practice Tests The Fastest Way to Land Your Dream Job. Get the latest health news from Dr. Here you'll find stories about new medical research, the latest health care trends and health issues that affect you and your family from ABCNews.com. Treating Founder (Chronic Laminitis) without Horseshoes- -1. Treating Founder (Chronic Laminitis) without Horseshoes, Section 1. Version with full- sized photos. RX FOR ACUTE LAMINITIS- -and trimming aids and tools. Based on what I now know about laminitis, I now feel that treating an acute episode includes: Some professional- grade farrier supply sources in the USA (but not a complete list)- -Mid West Farrier Supply, 8. East Eagle Road, Beecher, IL 6. Phone: (8. 00) 9. Dayvon Supply, 1. Safford Hill Road, Greenwich, NY 1. Phone: 5. 18- 6. 92- 1. Ken Davis & Sons, 3. East Blagrove St., Richwood, OH 4. Phone: 7. 40/9. 43- 2. Centaur Forge, Ltd., P. O. Spring St., Burlington, WI 5. Phone: 4. 14- 7. 63- 9. You can shop online for farrier tools at: http: //www. The Horses Hoof also sells some farrier tools and horse boots: www. Compound nipper source: http: //www. These have more leverage than regular nippers.)One method, used more in Europe, is to have one person steady a hoof on a hoof stand while the other person trims. This is a good idea, especially if you are not strong. Bob in action: He uses a zirconium flap disk from http: //www. Bob uses a T- 2. 9 zirconium disk, which has a slanted surface. The slanted surface allows you to abrade the sole and bars easier by tilting the grinder. He uses a 4- 1/2 inch - 2. Grinder Bob Creel usesfrom Harbor Freight. Smallest, lightest angle grinder(by Milwaukee Tools)You'd want to remove the side handle and guard, and use 4. They quit carrying the Foredoms, and are now carrying Makitas. For the right shape burs with 1/4. In a minute or 2 with a bench grinder, he gets his knife sharp enough to shave the hair off his arms, and slice through leather pads much more readily than it did right before he sharpened the knife. He emphasizes what angle to hold the blade to the buffing wheel.. One caveat: if you try to sharpen the hook on the end of the blade, it can get hung up in the muslin wheel and jerk the knife out of your hand. Slower than a bench grinder with buffing wheel, but he explains things well. He mentions not using files and scrapers, which can be tempting because they are more aggressive. He prefers ceramic grit sharpeners, which are similar to fish hook sharpeners, etc. Good entry level sharpening info if you're not going to spend the money for a bench grinder. He also talks about putting a 2. None of them angle the flat side of the blade; they just go over it once over lightly, flat, to take off any burrs that formed when sharpening the beveled side of the blade. If you do angle this side of the blade, you will, in effect, make the edge of the blade a bigger angle, and therefore, less sharp. The pros are using bench grinders with muslin buffing wheels, and two grades of buffing compound- -the final one being the finer white polishing compound. The video shows a guy with huge strong hands and arms sharpening his knife. If even HE needs his knife to be that sharp, certainly we do! The truth is, it won't. They won't take a good edge, or hold a good edge. It's not worth it to economize on your knife. The knives you get in tack stores and feed mills are usually not good steel. Buffing wheels and polishing compound can be purchased at home improvement stores- -you don't have to get them from professional farrier supply houses. But you will probably have to go to farrier supply houses to get professional grade farrier knives. Dick knives are a good choice.. Other trimming aids: A hoofjack, which is actually better to work with than some other designs (lower and more stable, more comfortable hoof sling), is from: http: //www. The Hoof Holdup, designed by a veteran horse shoer, who has this to say about it: . I have been a horse shoer since 1. Holdup in 1. 99. 6. I made the first to help shoe some small Arabians, and some old- type quarter horses with the heavy muscles and short legs, while working in Texas. I was amazed by how well they liked the Holdup. That was the beginning of the Holdup. Currently, I am the horseshoe inspector at the San Francisco Bay Area racetracks. I am 6. 5, have had, and still am having, a great career with horses, and the Holdup is my pet project for life. Click on links below for contact info for: Nancy Filbert and Tracy Porter As Nancy does not check her email every day, if an emergency, Click here. This horse was so relieved after the first trim that he was able to stand and offer a foot the next day. Plans for building a sling yourself- -David Montana's design. I showed this article to my boyfriend, who is a Certified Master Farrier. He's been shoeing for 3. The horse has a 1. The vets dobbed off the toes (severely) and taped on a heel support. When Danny started to trim the horses feet he noticed a horrible abscess on the sole in the toe area. And it had also came out the coronary band. The abscess was a gray smelly pus and covers a large area of the sole. He relieved the pressure, but is wondering how much abscess in the sole can be accepted with severe founder. The vets around here hadn't heard of a case of founder that had abscessed this badly. Their suggestions were to put the horse down. This poor horse is in extreme pain, laying down more often then not. Almost impossible to even lift a foot let alone trim one. Any help would be extremely appreciated. Sincerely Ribbon. MS@aol. com. A thrilling update!- -From: Ribbon. MS@aol. com To: gretchenfathauer@prodigy. Date: Sunday, March 2. PMSubject: Re: the foundered horse your husband is working on. Gretchen- Thank you so much for answering my letter. We had talked to some vets and they'd suggested euthanasia. So we went out to try and save the horse. The horse was laying down flat out, he was in a tiny pen on rubber pads. The horse looked like he had given up. The vet gave the horse a tranquilizer shot and my husband proceeded to trim him lying down. The sole in the one front was not attached to the foot clear back to the quarter bars and peeled off. It didn't show any noticeable tenderness or abscesses in it. Unlike the other front that was still infected, but had a clear discharge, unlike the gray discharge earlier. He lowered the heels 3- 4 degrees and shortened and rolled the toes. He wanted to minimize the stress on the deep flexor tendon. Beings the horse hadn't been standing in 2 days and he'd even been eating lying down. When he did stand his front feet were out as far as they'd go and his back feet were clear up where his front feet should have been. After he trimmed his front feet he put medical boots on them with a cotton pad with ichmathol on it on both feet. He pulled the shoes on the hind and did the same trim, beings they're foundered too. It took a couple hours for the drugs to wear off. We finally got him up and he was actually standing almost naturally. He seemed insecure in using his front feet, but after a short time he was actually doing better. From flat out on his side to actually standing almost normal. We suggested he put him out to pasture with his stable mate and then spread his grass hay in little piles way apart for self exercise. And then walking him as much as possible. We also suggested an awesome vitamin to help grow healthy hooves. We plan on going back in 4- 5 days to set up a maintenance program. Any suggestions or corrections would be highly appreciated. I'm sure Tink thanks you, too, and I will let you know of further progress. I also have used an Amish shoeing stock from Yoder’s Horseshoeing Stocks, 3. County Rd. 7. 0, Sugarcreek, OH 4. Shoeing Stocks- -a huge help! They can lean on it, but they cannot fall. Susan Kempson, where she showed microscopic studies of laminae, both normal and in laminitis. She noted that the laminitic microscope slides showed edema, which was crowding the blood vessels, reducing blood flow to the laminae. One thing that gives barefoot trims a bad name is that they often are done without adequately rolling the edges, particularly in the toe area, leading to chipping and too much leverage on the laminae. Trimming every 2 months when the horse is not getting enough exercise on abrasive terrain to keep himself worn down, as wild horses do, results in massive excess growth. A little help for ones back during these lengthy procedures is a good thing! I personally recommend UAA Gel (or some other form of activated charcoal) to absorb gut toxins. Susan Kempson, where she showed microscopic slides of laminae, both normal and in laminitis. These possible drug side effects can be more life- threatening than laminitis. Help for trimming Rock- hard Feet! Many people new to trimming are dismayed by how hard it can be. Dick hoof knives, which take a better edge. It's like a giant Dremel. Soaking feet prior to trimming can sometimes help.. My Arizona contacts have been having really great results with Hoof Marvel. Strasser thinks that if you use the mechanical approach, you don't need this stuff. Box 2. 42, Euroa 3. Australia—I sent $2. US cash. Eleanor Kellon has been running some magnesium supplementation trials, and has found that adding magnesium to the diet of cresty horses usually began to bring these hard deposits down in about 3 weeks. I would caution people to not use dolomite, though, despite Pat Coleby recommending it, and my previous success with it. Some sources in the USA also contain undesirable elements, such as lead. Kellon recommends that the total diet- -including hay- -contain two parts calcium to one part magnesium. It seemed that the ones who did were . Kellon's posts: We are currently running a clinical trial on the effectiveness of magnesium in horses/ponies with problems related to chronic founder (grass founder in most cases) associated with obesity, . This is mentioned briefly on Gretchen's site too. Preliminary results are very encouraging. Linsey is absolutely right about increased demands from our polluted environment (which are for minerals other than magnesium too) and that single mineral supplementation can lead to problems in time.
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