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| This is Lyrik, my beautiful arabian prince. He is 12 years old and eagerly jumps on a trailer to go for a trail ride. |
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These are Lyrik's front feet shortly after we got him and before he had been trimmed. He was previously shod for endurance rides, but did not have any visible nail holes in his feet. The most striking thing about his front feet is their size and shape difference. One hoof looks "normal" and the other looks splayed out. I've tried to get the splayed foot to look more like the "normal" hoof, however, I 'm realizing that the more normal looking hoof is in fact, less healthy, with contracted heels and pinched frogs with deep thrush. I've begun soaking his "normal" foot in a lysol solution a few times per week. It is slowly opening up and the thrush has gotten better. His thrush is hidden in the deep cleft in his frog, so was hard to detect at first. We live and learn.
| This is the bottom of Lyrik's spayed out foot before trimming. One heel is slightly higher than the other. He does not have much concavity, but overall his feet are not in bad condition. They are quite large for an Arab though, and he tends to trip over them when they are not kept well-trimmed.
| These are Lyrik's front feet after his first trim. His right side, (in the picture) is still a little bigger than the left. I've come to realize that his feet are just different. Period. I trim them the same, according to each foot. They do not seem to give him any problems, so we'll just wait and see how they change and develop over time.
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| This is an injury Lyrik suffered during the winter. He put both back legs through a wood fence. |
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| Early Spring 2007. This is the deep thrush we are working with on Lyrik's front hoof. I tried to get rid of as much dead frog as possible. |
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| Lyrik at the NATRC ride at Oakridge in Central Va |
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| These are Lyrik's front feet. The left is his wide heel with no problems. The white hoof on the right has a pinched heel that I am trying to bring down. |
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| July, 2007. Looks a little better than the early spring photo. This is the soaked hoof, pretrim. |
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| This is Lyriks "good" front hoof. Heels are quite wide, and do not contain any thrush at all.. |
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