I'm going to take this one foot per day... Here's the left fore
August 12 Notice the hairline- it curves up toward the heel area.
August 22 Compare hairline angle to the above photo- essentially the same angle, but it has relaxed to a straight line, and this is without the shoes and wedge pads he wore in the preceding photo.
Looks like his foot is really short but he's moving well and I have not invaded live sole!! The capsule is displaced forward- meaning that the angle of growth is slanted more forward than it should. The breakover on the bottom of the foot is lined up with where it will be when the dorsal wall grows down. The end result is that the pastern and dorsal wall will line up, with well connected laminae all the way down! Here's Honey's fores- she is 10, my first barefoot teacher. Her tubules grow mostly parallel to the dorsal wall, which has only a minimum of forward flare. Her heels always look a little pulled forward- I'm addressing the bars to keep them from pulling the heels under. Note the pastern and dorsal wall line up, with no need for an agressive breakover on the bottom of the toe wall.
Here is Jester's left fore- look closely- orange lines are the current direction of growth, blue lines approximate the desired angle of growth, and green line shows how the pastern lines up with the blue lines (close anyway-I'm not great at using Paint)
Heels August 12
Left fore heels August 22- hairline still jammed up on the medial (right/inside), able to stand with heels on the ground, lateral cartilages are showing relaxation since I relieved the bars. In lay terms- the bulbous ridges on either side of the rear of the leg- above the hoof, no longer protrude, but are regaining a rounded appearance.
August 22 Compare hairline angle to the above photo- essentially the same angle, but it has relaxed to a straight line, and this is without the shoes and wedge pads he wore in the preceding photo.
Looks like his foot is really short but he's moving well and I have not invaded live sole!! The capsule is displaced forward- meaning that the angle of growth is slanted more forward than it should. The breakover on the bottom of the foot is lined up with where it will be when the dorsal wall grows down. The end result is that the pastern and dorsal wall will line up, with well connected laminae all the way down! Here's Honey's fores- she is 10, my first barefoot teacher. Her tubules grow mostly parallel to the dorsal wall, which has only a minimum of forward flare. Her heels always look a little pulled forward- I'm addressing the bars to keep them from pulling the heels under. Note the pastern and dorsal wall line up, with no need for an agressive breakover on the bottom of the toe wall.
Here is Jester's left fore- look closely- orange lines are the current direction of growth, blue lines approximate the desired angle of growth, and green line shows how the pastern lines up with the blue lines (close anyway-I'm not great at using Paint)
Heels August 12
Left fore heels August 22- hairline still jammed up on the medial (right/inside), able to stand with heels on the ground, lateral cartilages are showing relaxation since I relieved the bars. In lay terms- the bulbous ridges on either side of the rear of the leg- above the hoof, no longer protrude, but are regaining a rounded appearance.
That's more like it! I always wonder why many, if not most farrier people and vets can't see what I see?????? I don't even do feet?? There is so much more than looking down the bottom of the hoof. The outsides can give a nice map of what the insides are doing.
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