Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Today, spayed 2 dogs and went to xray a chronically foundered horse-had severe rotation in all four feet, especially the front. Regardless, he has good days now and again and is getting along fairly well for the degree of rotation! It's unfortunate that horses need to spend so much time on their feet. Laminitis or founder is not uncommon, especially in horses that are overweight, with metabolic disease or Cushing's disease. This is the time of the year where owners need to start restricting grazing to these horses, in order to reduce the risk of founder. Once a horse founders, it is more prone to do so in the future! We will see where this guy is in a year to see if corrective trimming can reduce the degree of rotation some.