ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: swelling inside front leg

Re: swelling inside front leg

Kimberly Henneman (vuduvet@utah-inter.net)
Mon, 2 Jun 1997 18:52:32 +0100

>> Also, I have never seen this before, but i am noticing *clips* of hair
>>missing from the front of his rear legs (cannon bones)...like he could be
>>clipping himself ??? And it's all up and down that area...not just in one
>>spot. No swelling, just hair missing, and no lameness.
>He probably is scalping himself with his front hoofs as they are
>breaking over and flexing at the fetlock the hind is coming too close
>and getting nicked by the front edge of the hoof.

usually tho, horses that scalp will get the skin too and will show some
pain along front of cannon bone.

>> This horse has medium to long pasterns upfront, but other than that is
>>pretty> much conformationally correct, ( a 14.2 Arab).
>Just overeaching.You may want to have your farrier slow his back feet
>down a bit or speed up breakover in the front. Maybe he's due for a trim
>soon and is getting a bit long in front so slower in breaking over?

Don't slow down the back feet. Speed up the front. Most horses are shod
with too long of a toe anyway. Move his breakover back and make sure his
inside/outside heels are equal. Have a vet check..hard to tell swelling
from cyber description like I said before. You might not have overstressed
him but he might have just hit himself.

Kim Henneman, DVM

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