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    Re: [RC] small feet - Susan Garlinghouse


    IMO, how much weight those small feet will have to carry makes a big
    difference.  Just simple physics and arithmetic of pressure per square inch.
    
    There are a lot of fractures and assorted lamenesses that come though CSU
    and I can think off the top of my head of at least five or six cases in the
    past year or two in which a nice horse with a serious but fixable fracture
    was euthanized because of small feet, even when the fracture wasn't anywhere
    near the foot itself.  Big horses, usually 1200-1400 lb quarter horses with
    big bodies and itty bitty "halter" feet.  In all cases, it wasn't the
    fracture that directly killed the horse---it was the long term stall rest
    and bearing most of the weight on the opposite non-injured leg that was the
    kiss of death---there was just no way to bear that kind of weight on so
    small an area and not have the opposite foot founder regardless of
    management.  There were a few cases where the owners insisted on trying and
    every time, the effort wasn't a successful one.
    
    So I guess my question would be, what other factors exist that will increase
    the downward pressure on those small feet?  A larger rider, upright
    pasterns, planning on trotting a lot of downhills?  It all adds up, but
    forewarned is forearmed in compensating.
    
    Good luck.
    
    Susan G
    
    
    
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