I wasn't very sure where to put this, since Kev is shod in front, but.....
I got the farrier to take K's back's off at his last visit (about 5 weeks ago) just to see how he went really. I was expecting him to be footy for the first couple of weeks, but he was absolutely fine. I took him out on hacks with stoney tracks and there appeared to be no difference at all, he was still striding out as normal.
Fast forward a few weeks and sadly I haven't been able to hack much at all with the dark nights and busy weekends so we have been doing a lot of work in the indoor school (so that only involves walking across a flat concrete yard). I took him down to the outdoor school on Thursday (down a stoney track) and he was really sore bless him! He was fine as soon as we got into the surface of the school, but super tentative and dropping his back end a fair bit on the stones.
I am a bit confused that he has gone footy after being fine initially? Now the bad weather is here and the hay is in he is constantly standing in the mud by the gate waiting to be allowed onto the hay....would this be making a difference? The only other thing I can think of is I have started adding a tiny bit of unmollassed speedi-beet to his dinner.
I got the farrier to take K's back's off at his last visit (about 5 weeks ago) just to see how he went really. I was expecting him to be footy for the first couple of weeks, but he was absolutely fine. I took him out on hacks with stoney tracks and there appeared to be no difference at all, he was still striding out as normal.
Fast forward a few weeks and sadly I haven't been able to hack much at all with the dark nights and busy weekends so we have been doing a lot of work in the indoor school (so that only involves walking across a flat concrete yard). I took him down to the outdoor school on Thursday (down a stoney track) and he was really sore bless him! He was fine as soon as we got into the surface of the school, but super tentative and dropping his back end a fair bit on the stones.
I am a bit confused that he has gone footy after being fine initially? Now the bad weather is here and the hay is in he is constantly standing in the mud by the gate waiting to be allowed onto the hay....would this be making a difference? The only other thing I can think of is I have started adding a tiny bit of unmollassed speedi-beet to his dinner.