Laminitis Founder Treatment

[brattynat10]

Wonderful job. I remember as a kid our farrier trying this as a last resort before putting one of our horses down. It was not a known technique at the time and a bit rough around the edges, but it worked and we saw improvement almost immediately. A painstaking process as the horse couldn't stand for a long period of time (was in both fronts), but recovery was amazing. I am very happy to see this technique is available for others to learn.

[lolablev]

Hey Coco! Still doing all this crazy therapeutic stuff I see! Wow! Ouchy horse heh?

Be cool...Lola

[lermamedrano]

this guy is the freakn best farrier ive seen in my life!!!! and ive been around horses all my life. where is this farrier located? plz reply.

[xlxOrtizxlx]

you are the master farrier,, you skills say it all Excellent job!!!!!!

[KFCockatoo]

You did an EXCELLANT job.

[KFCockatoo]

My pony had laminitis it's horrible do everything possible to prevent it. The shoer says it is the equivalent of getting your toes hit with a hammer over and over again.

[speedracer2005]

lol sounds like he wants to cry.

[TheLittleIronHorse]

his heels still seem really high. Will then come down with more treatment?

[Alishondra]

That looks so painful

[freefalln329]

You are very talented. The horse is lucky to have you as his farrier. I would love to learn how to do this.

[Silvermac27]

I have a mare,she is 12 yrs old.She got laminitis from a break in to the barn last November and over indulged on wheat.She almost died but she lost her beautiful foal from the wheat.She is very tender on her four feet,even though my farrier made special shoes for her front feet.I live in Ireland and I was wondering is there anybody in Ireland that can do what Mr.Fernandez is doing.She is in foal still but she is on one sachet of bute daily.

[kisskisshorsegirl]

wow thats so incredible! it really looks like a pretty involved precedure and you would almost think you wouldnt want it to bleed. but it really does look like it helped him so much. my friends pony had laminitis twice. she got through it the first time but a few weeks ago she got it again and she couldnt get rid of it and had to be put down. she WAS 23 though

[DaisyHavenFarm]

Coco, it was GREAT to meet you at the Hoof Summit in OH!  Thanks for all your input! You are a pioneer in the farrier field, for sure!

[cesca0921]

wow amazing!

[GreatAuntCayce]

With this kind of treatment does that mean that Wyatt will never founder again?

[fuzzyb29]

This is fine but there is one major problem.This horses is foundered and his coffin bone has rotated.Get his angle down so the tip of his coffin bone isn't trying to poke through the bottom of hie foot.Where do you think all the pressure is comming from.When the horse stood on his foot and couldn't straighten his ankle he was telling you that his coffin bone had rotated up.Getting that heel off will let his coffin bone rest flat in relation to the ground and aleviate alot of pressure.

[seabiscuit67]

why did you put impression material in the caudal region of the hoof? the tip of p3 lies aprox 3/4 to 1 inch in front of the true apex of the frog. so wouldnt your support need to be a bit more anterior? isnt it the distal anterior portion of p3 that rotates downward during founder. and just because you draw blood on the hoof does not meen your relieving pressure.

[missyclare]

I wonder how this horse has improved since this was done?

I figure the abscesses are from a shallow groove at the apex and P3 still in a founder situation after 4 years. (P3 close to the ground, being walked on, bruised...hence the abscessing.) That the trim/shoes on the hoof in these last 4 years has not promoted P3 to get back to where it belongs. That he has continued to sit on the edge of the cliff of founder all this time. Dang those shoes and not giving him his foot back to heal himself.

[lukieshoepoo]

The frog of this horse has been pushed back by the third phalanx. The movement of this bone is causing the bruising and abcesses. The reverse shoe concerns me because if the bone sinks rather than rotates, you lose the horse. I would heartbar this hoof and stablize the movement of the coffin bone. A little pressure 3/8 inch back from the tip of the frog and away from the descending digital arteries would do the trick.

[Torsida719]

Great and interesting vid!

[Critterlover17]

Thanks for posting this, and being brave enough to! Definately not PC, but I understand why you did it this way. It looked like it would be painful, but obviously not as the horse stood for it. How is the mare doing now?

[Critterlover17]

Oops, I mean gelding.

[luvhorses22]

she was blowing absecess because i went from shoes to barefoot and she was blowing all the crap out of her hooves that occured with shoes.

my horse has never had one that was 4 years old. dont get me wrong My natural trimmer does come out anytime she gets them but all i do is soak them in apple cider vinegar and they blow out on there own. thats all i do and thats all i will ever do. i have had horses all my life. 2.

[thehappyhoof]

This was AWESOME! Thanks so much. I have a horse with Keritan growths in his toes that need to be cut out. This really helped me a LOT! Thanks and GREAT JOB

[xlxOrtizxlx]

hey there i really learned alot about the importance of not trimming the hoof wall ...by the way i really do want to know about laminitis and thrush.....please tell me (i love horses) :)

[luvhorses22]

hmmm.

no offense to you or your method. but uhh in the wild they blow off absecess all the time and dont have somebody cut away at their hoof. I know since i have gone barefoot with my mare she has blown many absecess and all i have done i just let emm blow and shes back up and running.

but good luck to u and that horse.

[thehappyhoof]

What is going on here, that your horse is getting abcesses all the time? Horses do not get abcesses all the time under normal circumstances. I've had horses all my life, and have had very very few abcesses. So what are you doing to this horse or what is it doing to itself to cause this? Are you running her on gravel roads or something?

[bloodstaindsilk]

If you listened to anything he said he was talking about draining an abscessed sole that has been there for four years. To make the hoof start growing normally again you have to displace that pressure someplace else. If your horse is getting abscesses often you should really re-consider management practices.

[equineangel91]

horses in the wild have much healthier feet. my horse too is barefoot..never had an absess. But wild horses have stronger healthier feet due to their environment and movement...domesticate horses do not have that advantage...and shod horses even less so

[torigolddust]

I hope the horse had a deadening agent given to him, otherwise that would be so painful for him!

[davidkozelsky]

I have used the reversed shoe and it realy works well. Are you a vet? Because to do this you should be because you have to block the nerv and only vets can do that unless you don't live in USA. But good job buddy.

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