DeeDee

DeeDee is a 16 year old Quarter Horse that is owned by my wife. She was my wife's first real barrel horse and suffered from incorrect farrier work. She has had foot problems for most of her life. First images were taken after initial removal of shoes from a farrier who put too small of a shoe causing the entire foot to move forward, crushing her heels. She had also developed a severe fungal infection (WLD) in the walls of both of her front feet and was immediately lame when the shoes were removed. We booted her fronts so she would be more comfortable (I forgot to take pictures after I trimmed her... Duh). From her angles I had thought she had foundered which luckily, after getting radiographs, she was not rotated. That was in 07. My wife unfortunately continued to have shoes put on her after the recommendation of the vet. I disagreed but, it's her horse. She had a resection to remove the fungal infection and she stayed in Natural Balance shoes on the fronts for a year. Now in defense of the farrier that shoed her, he did a good job of allowing her heels to grow back. The next photos are of her feet when I finally convinced my wife to let DeeDee go barefoot. It was about a year and half after the initial events of the first pictures. Her soles were still very thin and flat but she did have some heel, the bars were not laid over and her frog looked  more healthy but she was still very ouchy on hard ground. Again we booted her to make her more comfortable and she had bouts of abscesses that would make her go three legged, one in particular which I have photos of, that erupted out of her sole and left a line from the apex of her frog to her toe. It never oozed or anything. It was rather strange.