Monday means new hooves

New feet today, with the hooves belonging to Shannon, originally from Northern Ireland and more recently from much nearer, in Somerset.

 She has been shod for a number of years both in these shoes and previously in bar shoes and wedges and although they kept her sounder for a while its now time to try something different.

These are feet with quite a lot of work to do  but we've certainly seen much worse feet on horses who have gone on to do very well barefoot so I have every hope that Shannon will be one of their number in a few weeks time.

 She has been diagnosed with navicular bone damage which is worse on her left foot and she is certainly lamer on the left, and has a worse landing on that foot, but as you can see there are also some issues with the right foot which again should improve out of shoes.

 More on Shannon soon.