What are hoof distortions and how do they occur?

Level IV Lameness Seminar in Colorado Last Month

Just getting around to blogging about our trip to Colorado. Monica and I went to do some continuing education and some site seeing. Colorado is different from Maine very brown and dry but very beautiful.

 

Here I am at the Royal Gorge in Canyon City, CO doing a little hiking.

Our Mentor Gene Ovineck confers with the owner about a horse with foot problems.

Gene Ovineck ponders this tough case. How to correct a negative plane coffin bone (P-3)?

Gene Ovineck observed by Shawn Melton of Dublin Texas (shoes many NFR horses) and Daisy Bicking (EasyCare Inc's glue on easy shoe expert) uses a wire wheel to clean up the foot prior to glueing.

Gene rebuilding the back of the horses foot with Hoof Tite to correct the negative plane in the coffin bone. We learned many new techniques like this one on our trip.

Here I am conferring with Gene Legerski and other top farriers on a tough ringbone case

Goldie (the horse with ringbone) is a nice palamino mare.

 

 

Here I am attaching the roller pad to the double nail pad to create an omnidirectional roller motion device that make Goldie much more comfortable.