05/18/2022
😱CONTRACTION - caused by shoes!
Look at the back of the hooves of these four different horses - what do you see?
The soft tissues, including the frog, have become SQUEEZED together and have started to atrophy - literally waste away!
Gradually these vital tissues at the back of the foot begin to collapse due to the continual contraction caused by applying and reapplying the metal shoes.
The central sulcus of the frog often becomes so deep and infected that the pain at the back of the foot with every stride makes the horse begin to TOE WALK.
But the central sulcus doesn’t even have to get deeply infected for the pain to be unbearable.
Horses cannot escape this pain.
It is very real…
very common…
and VERY SERIOUS!☹️
This contraction causes loss of use, loss of flexion, loss of support, and loss of shock absorption at the back of the foot.
And is disastrous for the horse 🙇♀️
The knock on effects throughout the horse’s body are huge.
Soft tissues become affected, abscesses can be rife, the horse toe walks putting particular strain on the DDFT and inflaming the NAVICULAR bursar - life becomes very difficult for the horse.
And guess what?
It is often rarely even noticed by the owner who has no clue that their horse is in so much pain and thinks the horse is still sound.
Horses try really hard to mask this pain…
.. until such time as they finally obviously go lame and a diagnosis such as navicular is given.
Then more often than not… remedial shoes are applied, continuing to make the whole problem worse! 😱
And so it goes on.
Going BAREFOOT is the only way to stop this kind of pain in the back of the foot.
Because only then can the foot begin to de-contract and start to heal.
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Please don’t let CONTRACTION continue to happen to horses’ hooves.
The BHM Team ❤️