Baskana originally foundered from a dexamethasone suppresion test. She tested positive for Cushings and IR, and once her diet was tightly controlled (tested/soaked hay, balanced minerals, flax, Vit E, and jiaogulan) and she was put on pergolide, she began to make immediate progress. She now shows off by trotting and doing the Arab head flip. :o)
She had been in glue-on Epona shoes before she was put in Soft Ride boots. You can see the damaged lamina in the toe area. Sorry the hoof was not cleaner but due to her pain level, Mario was holding her up in order to trim her - so time was of the essence! Picture below is right after shoe removal in August (black substance is a little bacterial invasion that scraped right off).
The two pics below are of the left front in November. The solar view looks a little funny in this view but the toe in front of the frog has been rasped into a bevel... you can see it better in the lateral view next to it, taken a couple of months after the shoes were removed. Relieving the leverage from the damaged lamina and keeping the breakover short was my primary goal with this mare. Her heels were already at a pretty good height so she had that in her favor! With the trim relieving the lamina so that it did not perpetuate the leveraging forces against and away from the coffin bone, and allowing the sole and frog to support the horse, she was very comfortable in the gel soled boots while her new, well connected lamina grows back in.
This view shows me rasping down some of the toe/lamellar wedge. The blue piece on the stand is a garden kneeling pad to keep Baskana's sole more comfortable and to help dampen the vibration of the rasping.
Right front hoof after December's trim.
Right front after July trim. I didn't get sole views this trim but I will need on the next one, for comparison she has a HUGE improvement in sole depth than in December. The new growth is smooth - no new 'incident' rings that I can see, we just have to finish growing out her enormous lamellar wedge...
Left front in July
