When the trimmer came we established that Lottie had a little bit of 'Seedy Toe' in both fronts. After searching the web, and frightening myself silly about it with horror pictures, we bought some fancy soap and balm to hopefully clear it up. The muddy field has made this quite a chore and the process goes something like this...
- Clean out feet and rinse down (soap needs to be applied to a nearly pristine foot otherwise they're still dirty when you're finished!)
- Lather up soap on each foot and leave for a minute.- Pat dry and remove excess soap with cloth/towel
- Apply balm to whole foot and push into cracks and crevices
After doing this daily for a week our backs now have some sympathy with poor trimmers and farriers backs. Why is picking up horses feet so exhausting? Lottie is just about fed-up with having them messed with too and always seems to wriggle when you pick up her right fore. Even so she still trys for us and she practically puts her boots on herself now!
We've finished the daily routine and are washing once a week now but still applying the balm daily.
Cross fingers the effort pays off!
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