Thank you very much! It seems to me as Florence hoof looks much better now. What a horrable Situation! 😱😳🤯

They usually don't when done properly

Understandable but helps to tell us more information I'd u want new interested viewers. Like me lol

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I'm just curious, how did you treat the foot when her hoof fell off? Did she have to have it covered or anything? Didn't it bleed? That's such a lot of hoof to lose

It generally happens when horses have had laminitis that goes untreated.

Me too

Their hoof is really like super thick nails

It like fingernails, you will get them pulled of off once in a while from an accident or something, but they grow back.

@@LittleGreyWolfForge just don’t agree with that.

It’s a bit like a human breaking a nail. I used to be a groom.

@@davecooper3238 Sure, if humans walked with all of their massive weight on one big toe on either foot, with their entire capacity to stay mobile being dependent on retaining most or all of the nail ... yeah, it'd be just like breaking a nail. 🙄

​@@jwhite-1471yeah it would, what point are you getting at?

​@jwhite-1471 as long as the whole things not gone its fine

So I can't imagine how incredibly painful this must have been for this horse.

Wow 😳

Nice ppl here. Sharing experience inspired thank u for video

Yeah, and one shot, you can see her back feet. One is just casually resting like she's just as happy as can be, getting her pedicure, lol.

What’s a knacker?

@@AHart7853 He means knacker's yard. That is where horse's go either when they have been shot or to be shot. The horse's body is then disposed of most likely in 2 ways: 1] The meat is used for dog food 2] the bones are used to make glue. That is why when things or people are worn out, we say they are knackered.

@@AHart7853 That's the butcher or slaughterhouse. If you watch Horse Plus Humane Society or Fletcher Farms, you will see that many of these draft horses who have given their lives to work for farmers are sold to the slaughter pipeline when they are no longer useful. It is my understanding that it's primarily the Amish who do this, but I wouldn't want to say whether it's usual practice or not. It is in any case despicable.

If I was that horse, I swear they would have turned me into a glue

Right! I smashed my toe last year and ended up losing the whole nail. The day it happened it was so INCREDIBLY painful. I normally have a really good pain tolerance but it was SO bad. Yet... this was her WHOLE foot! I can't imagine how much that hurt!

@@abbienormals1669 Actually, her hoof wall IS NOT her whole toe. Let's work from the inside out: the coffin bone is analogous to our big toe bone. The frog and all the other stuff on the inside of the wall is like the padding and cushion. The hoof wall is the toenail. So, she lost her toenail. The difference is that toenail surrounds all of the padding and stuff, so unlike our toes, it can be a life or death situation depending on how much of the "stuff" came off with the wall. Horse stepped on my foot. Sliced the toenail off at the cuticle. Didn't feel it aside from the sliced cuticle which was more paper stabby. Breaking my toes from a horse stepping on my foot hurt more. My podiatrist gets a lot of work from me. Ha ha ha............

@@KateandBree So basically she got the same injury of sorts that Abbie described - they both lost a toenail - but with far different severity ratings.

​@@PersoMenaIt's as we lost a toenail BUT 1. Had only one toe 2. And had to keep en pointe all time 😂

Horses aren't birds, you goof! They're reptiles.

Yes, i also want to see that

It was probably like a human missing a toenail, a bloody mess

I’d like to refer you to a video by a cow hoof-smith in Wisconsin or one of the fly-over states. He actually took care of a cow that also had a “hoof came off of this animal” problem, but it was a cow. It’s likely that something similar to that poor lass’ hoof happened here, albeit the circumstances were different. If Peter would like to jump in and confirm this, I believe the internals of the hoof actually got sheered out of the hoof capsule. By that I mean the entirety of the “nail bed” was exposed to the elements. No doubt in my mind the amount of pain this horse would’ve been in. For the short term, an Iodine and Salicylic Acid wrap would provide temporary relief as well as bacterial protection. Based on what Peter said, it sounds to me like the heels were taking much more weight than they were meant to when she started putting weight on that foot again. This is just one theory though. I’m 100% sure I’m wrong and the foot wasn’t as bad as I’m describing it. I’m just trying to explain how I think he went about treating her before this shoeing video.

Oh, trust me, I've seen horse hooves without hooves, its sorta nasty and i love it! It looks like a big red mushroom

@@virtuedreamer6623 that’s exactly how I imagined it in my head, and remember from that video I mentioned above

Nor me , or least one that's still alive .

It wasn't actually the hoof that fell off, just the hoof wall - which is equivalent to toenails on humans

​@@purpleunicorn87if had a toenail off after i dropped a heavy thing on it when i was in primary school and boy does it hurt

Thank you

I agree it was horrendous but thank the Lord that you are in earth 🌎🌍

​@@Peterthefarrier thanks for doing this video

She's 75 years old in horse years! But that's why I started the question to the (owner) but everyone else replied. I would like to know myself! ❤️🐎❤️

​@@kristawilson718 yeah thanks for asking about it too, nobody answered me but it's helpful reading the replies to your comment! I watch horse plus too 😁

@@kristawilson718 my old horse ( Icelandic) got to be 34😅

@@bartender4877 WOW! THAT'S INCREDIBLE!!!❤️🐎❤️

@@kristawilson718 thank you ☺️ she also didn’t die from disease or anything badly. It didn’t take a vet to put her down because she was in pain. Where I’m from The Netherlands she was on a meadow with all older horses. The farm has a meadow for geldings and also separate for mares ( no stallions allowed). But in that way the younger horses don’t upset the real older ones. So she died just from old age on a meadow next to the barn in her own time amongst her old companions. The farmers saw her acting a bit different ( meaning she wondered off and did not stay close to the others, not far off but separated where she could see them) but didn’t call a vet because they didn’t want to make it a whole scene, where it could be stressful for her or us. She just layed down and went to sleep. Real peaceful and ontbinden pain at all. It was before winter so we were happy she got another good summer because winters can be hard on older horses. It was real hard to lose her but the way how was real rewarding because she was my first horse and gave me a stallion foal. She was my first love and at her old age we stopped riding only grooming and taking my now small kids to go walking in the riding area and outside. So she still feel important and hade something to do. But the breed is real strong and never sick at least she was never sick. I also hade a welsh cob section D mare that was such a beautiful horse also. But yeah horses can get real old I think it depends on breed and how you take care of them. We never sold a horse because they got old I believe if they gave you their best years you should give them all the love you can when they get older🥰❤️ I can’t imagine a horse losing its hoof at all, all our horses got everything taking care off in due time.

Same. I was like either that guy has the dullest hoof knife known to mankind or those are some super tough feet. We had a Morgan that had super hard feet. We’d soak her for 10 minutes before the farrier came to try to soften things up a smidge. Made trimming a bunch easier for her and the farrier.

Thank you

Florence is lucky, we had to put down a mare who completely lost the whole hoof. She was bleeding and the whole thing was at the hay box.

It takes training. A young horse must be coaxed into standing still. A grown horse who has never been seen by a farrier before will take time to work with, or become dangerous if rushed

He rasps the absolute living daylights out of the outer hoof wall. He does also cut way too much in to the sole. This isn’t a natural trim by any stretch. The amount of rasping he did to the outer hoof wall was eye watering.

​@@thisirishcobcanHe did it do make it go along with the new shoe, no? To not make it stick out to get caught

@@sagalindhe no he didn’t - you should fit the shoe to the hoof. You should NEVER fit the hoof to a shoe. He did the first set of over rasping to remove all the laminitic/inflammatory rings on the hoof wall to make it look pretty. It was un necessary and reduces the strength. You can only grow a strong hoof. You can’t rasp a strong one. When he applied the shoe, he set the shoe back to aid breakover (even though it’s been proven to make minimal difference) and then rasps again to make it ‘look pretty’. To me it’s a car crash of a job and I would have been surprised if this horse walked sound after that.

Late to the party but it's been decades since I was around horses and I was wincing when he went at that hoof. You can see he's caught his own hand a few times.

Laminitis. 1 million %. The chronic inflammatory rings that he rasped out were a MASSIVE give away. He says that the bruising in the sole was from the previous trauma but the sole can show laminitis in as little as a week so in my opinion (from experience) - the laminitis was still active.

@thisirishcobcan wow, thanks for that. I knew laminitis was a horrible thing for them to have but didn't realise it could get as serious as them loosing part of their hoof. Thanks for educating me.

@@ZebraKitten yes - laminitis is such a serious condition if left un treated. The laminae becomes inflamed and fails, which then leads to weakness. In severe/chronic cases a hoof capsule can slip off. Horrible disease.

@@thisirishcobcan thank you so much for taking the time to reply and explaining it to me.

@@ZebraKitten you’re welcome. I just hate seeing videos like this.

Thank you. It has been a long 6 months to get to where we are today.

​@@Peterthefarrier bluddy brilliant. Great job.

It was a case of just letting the hoof grow down naturally. The main goal was keeping bacteria and infection out. This was done with gentle cleaning. The vet had been involved with this mare. I have seen her every six weeks over the last six months. She was on her feet the entire time but she did have a deep shavings bed to keep her comfortable.

@@Peterthefarrier I'm trying to imagine how the horse could have stood on what was left of that foot at all. Did she just stand on 3 feet for all that time? Did she have any additional support for her weight?

Yes I’m curious about this as well. I assumed that having balanced pressure on all four legs was really important and there might have to be like some plastic block glued on like healing cows sometimes wear. Regardless, great care for the poor thing.

I've seen plenty of horses that have lost their hooves and lived. They grow back.

Horse plus rescue horses that are going to slaughter they wouldn't just have bad hooves they have other issues im sure being a healthy horse and being taking care of has a lot to do with letting that ĥoof grow back

@Elizabeth Toledo Oh yes, they are in horrific shape coming from the slaughter pipeline!! What I am asking is, how is this gentleman keeping a horse living and walking with no hoof???!. I love horseplus and stand behind them💯%! I don't understand how, again, is he able to keep a horse a live, when our horses, must be euthanized due to their hoofs. Put other conditions outta the question!!! This is a hoof question. Please let this man answer me!!! Thank you!!!

She lost the outside of a foot the hoof wall. Underneath she still had her sole and frog. This massively helped with the recovery. She is a tough old girl and was able to bare weight on this foot. This and a deep shavings bed was a massive part of her recovery. To be honest, I was extremely impressed with how she coped with all this.

As long as the periople is intact, the wall can regrow in theory. Most horses won't be able support that amount of regrowth if it's from traumatic injury. It depends on their general health and breeding too, as well as some luck in getting care immediately. If the laminae are damaged, then any wall growth isn't going to bond with the underlying structures. This lovely older girl is obviously carefully bred with strength and quality in mind. Irish draught crosses are typically strong and sound of foot. She has pasture, from what the farrier says, and her owner got skilled care straight away. In America, there's a lot of backyard breeding for coat colour and certain aspects of appearance like straight hocks and small feet. Added to that a tendency to start riding when they are too young with heavier riders, as well as poor feeding. None of those predispose a horse to a long, healthy life. Animal protection is less rigorous from what I've seen from rescue videos of horses at auction. When there is a horse neglect case in UK, it's usually someone who gets overwhelmed with a number of horses and becomes unable to look after them properly. Deliberate overuse or underfeeding is rare and is acted on quickly. In US there is an issue with wild horses in poor condition too and a lot of those at auction are ones that have been rounded up for shipping for meat. So yes, a horse in poor condition is unlikely to recover from a catastrophic hoof injury and euthanasia can be the kindest option.

Thanks mate hope you are keeping well.