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Montana (our Blacksmith) came out recently…to trim Claire’s & Anja’s hooves…..

He trimmed Anja’s hooves without any issues…..

We put Claire in the shoeing stock…dosed her with some sub-lingual Dormosedan/happy-gel…(there are days I want some of that blue-goo)…..

*****(Dormosedan Defined)*****

We cranked up the newly-lubricated and un-frozen Come-Along…..

…..by that time…Claire was so relaxed that she didn’t mind the big dog collars around her fetlocks…with the come-along cranking up her feet…..

…..Claire leaned on the shoeing stock…and she snoozed…..

Her hooves were probably a little better…but just barely…(hoof canker is rarely (if ever) cured)…..

Montana used our angle-grinder to cut off the excessive hoof growth…..

…..smoke was everywhere from burning keratin…..

…..there was no bleeding because he cut off non-vascularized hoof-growth…..

Claire (à la Dormosedan) blissfully didn’t care that she was surrounded by smoke from her own hooves…..

Montana pared as much excess-growth off as possible…(he even burned out the motor of my angle-grinder)…..

It’s not so much a winning situation for Claire…it’s more a maintaining situation…..

Hoof canker is a weird condition…we have no idea when and/or where she contracted it (in ALL of her hooves)…..

Claire has a secret past all her own…..

I pointed out a newly draining abscess on the outside of Claire’s hind hoof…it was high up on the coronary band…..

My older daughter and I have been alternating irrigating it with colloidal silver and chlorhexidine…..

…..it looks like it’s healing and closing…she’s never been lame on it…and her temperature’s been fine(?)…..

Montana was concerned…he said I needed to have Dr. Stevie Wonder (our nickname for our vet) take a look at it…..

Poor Claire has had a rough life…she’s been here since 2018…at least she’s had a full belly since then…with good food…and no work………….(sigh)…..

………….(to be continued)………….

*****(Note To Self:—get another angle-grinder)*****

 

 

 

 

 

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