Posted by Vicki McGaugh on July 31, 2000 at 09:38:38:
In Reply to: feet problem posted by Tim Penny on July 30, 2000 at 17:22:15:
Once an animal has foundered the only thing you really can do is to pare the feet down short and keep them that way with weekly trimmings. The damage to the feet that was caused by a high fever is not fixable. He will start having heavy horny growth in his hooves, with some seperation as he gets older of the wall of his hoof away from the pad. He will also start growing hoof that is almost impossible to cut though, it will be clear/dark like resin. If he is a valuable buck to you and your breeding program you may want to invest in a belt sander, one person holding the belt sander while another person places the bucks foot on it to grind down the feet while holding the hoof together and flat. You will need to go over your feeding program with a fine tooth comb, high protein in the feed, the feeding of animal by products in the feed keeping animals on the edge of rumen acidosis, and the grasing of high protein, alfafa/clover etc. fields, when not used to this, is what caused the laminits in the first place. Find yourself a knowledgeable horse person in your area, you may want to start using Yucca for pain and clovite. Horse folks deal with laminits more than we do, especially in their show stock. Vicki
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