Almost all good news @ almost 6 weeks

Jester is moving better and better! Good- right hind shows near normal concavity!! Left hind needs exfoliation but the depth at tip of frog is good! Left fore is still shallow in the collateral grooves (less than 1") at the rear and I am seeing slight exfoliation at the frog/sole crease from the halfway point forward!!! Feet are all cool! No Thrush is keeping his frogs healthy- no rotting, no deep heel crevices, less pain! He wears his frog pads and duct tape every day still.Right fore has depth-but the abrasion/abscess exit on his heel has gotten nasty and is granulating. I am treating it with a "tried and true" rancher remedy. I expect it to be shrunken and hardened off within 2 days. I had great results with this same recipe when my mare Honey had proudflesh on her hock. Only a flat scar remains. The best is- he is walking with some rhythm again! and moving further around the pasture than he has for a couple weeks. When I took Taffy out for a ride yesterday evening he walked all the way to the bottom of the pasture (around 150 feet), whinnying the whole way that he did not want her to abandon him! Honey stayed behind but apparently there is no bond between those two. It's Taffy that I trust out in the pasture with him- Honey chews hide off other horses, it's her alpha mare instinct :( Jester is very excited to see me come with a bucket. Now that he's stablilizing, I am adding concentrated feed back to his diet. He currently eats free choice Bermuda grass hay, Integrity Lite low starch feed, beet pulp, Black oil Sunflower seeds and salt. I will be starting him on CA Trace also- my delivery should be here today! His coat still gleams in the sun, but it's time to put some weight (back) on. I hated watching him lose condition, but until I knew what might be triggering his pain, he had just hay. Then I added pasture, and now the concentrates. I do not think his pain was caused by a single factor, and diet was not the main issue. I have not seen radiographs of his navicular area on the fores, but I can tell he had severely underdeveloped digital cushions and contracted hooves. Barefoot rehab makes rapid expansion of the hooves a reality, and now he has to develop those digital (palmar) cushions.