Remi goes back in metal shoes
I had to put Remi back in natural balance shoes yesterday. I loved the epona shoes but they did not hold up well in my rocky terrain. I feel the challenges with this shoe were more Remi and not the shoe itself. I loved that the epona shoe gave such good frog support and [...]
Update on Remi feb 2009
After working with Remi for almost three years to get his hooves good enough for him to be a barefoot horse I made the decision to put shoes on him last month. Radiographs showed that he had inflammation on the bottom of both his coffin bones and his sole was still too thin to provide [...]
Update on Remi’s hooves
It has been a month since Cecilia put the natural balance shoes with fill in pad material on Remi. He is doing well. He has a bit longer toe than I would like but he is still moving well. He has almost worn through the fill in pad so it is not surprising that he [...]
Laminitis in horses – Bonita update
I went by last week to check on Bonita. She is continuing to improve. Her hoof has almost grown off the resection which was done last August. She still has a pulse in both hind feet but that does not bother me since she is looking so good when she walks. Laminitis in horses is [...]
Owners can treat laminitis in horses
Laminitis in horses is a challenging condition to treat because no two cases present the same way. The individual presentation of the laminitis horse makes this condition especially difficult for a busy equine practitioner who may not have the time to observe and research treatments for each case. Sometimes equine practitioners may not even be [...]
