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Re: [RC] Confirmation- reply to Tuni - Barbara McCrary

I have to agree with you, Jeri.  One of my all time favorite horses had a high-low syndrome.  Farriers always were trying to get both feet to look the same, and I didn't know enough to say NO.  Eventually, the poor horse popped a knee on the low leg, and it was downhill after that.  The knee calcified, became distorted and twisted, and the horse was thereafter lame.
 
Barbara
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Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] Confirmation- reply to Tuni

NO, it can't not after several months of age.  If that's the way it grows, that's the way it will continue to grow and NEEDS to grow.  If you try to change those angles, you are more likely to cripple the horse than fix it.  There are some things you can do to a clubby foot (high/low is what I was seeing more than an actual club, but it's hard to tell from pics) but messing with the angles will just make a mess.

jeri (Owner of a horse with high heels, who after 16 years and several farriers will never try to change angles again.)



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