New growth :)

Yesterday Jester began to shed his old ancient frog layer on both fores. While I don't like to see frog slough, his old deformed frog really needed to go. It came off in V- just the forward 3/4 of it. The heel area stayed put, to my relief. A few flakes of sole came off the LF, and wonder of wonders, there is an ever so tiny ridge appearing beside the frog crease forward of the widest point/bar termination!! We are going to get concavity :) :) :)!!!! The abscess exit is still tender, but it is regrowing and healthy looking under the loose edge. He will get another trim adjustment today. He walks like an old gimpy man, those hinds have worked overtime with these sore fores. The more he walks the smoother it gets, though, and when I get impatient with his progress I have to look at the old pictures and remind myself of where we started... and that we do have progress Then....note the relative location of the hinds Now... In shoes late July... October 22 The hoof shows a marked change when the shoes were removed. Can you see it? I'm going to address that arched hairline next. Backing up the toe as much as safe was the priority... He likes to stand with these toes buried in the manure pile... takes the pressure off his navicular area. Still no heel first landings. Some flat landings... lots of toe first. :(