From Randy Billinger, the same great guy who helped Cody and Mr. T

Fronts

The two photos below show how Lilly's front heels are severely overgrown. The front of the hoof is being driven up into the coronet. We do not know how much rotation there is of the coffin bone (no radiographs were taken) or if there is permanent damage to the coffin bone but as you will see in a later picture, there was overgrown thick sole protecting it. The very pronounced ripples in the hoof wall are excellent indicators that the diet needs to be changed. Lilly's feet and legs are wet because we just had a thunderstorm and her feet and legs were muddy. We washed them to clean her up for the trim and pictures.

A photo showing how overgrown the frog and heel buttress is. My hoof pick is all the way in and it is still not to the bottom of the groove. You can see that the heel wall height is still higher than the overgrown frog. The front feet are just super elevated. Surprisingly there was very little infection in these feet. I expected to see a lot of thrush and fungal infection but was surprised and relieved to find very little. Most of the fungal material I was able to remove during the trim. Any remaining fungal infection was treated.

A photo again showing how high the heels have grown. The frogs are not being engaged so have a lot of material needing to come off.

Below is the left and right front foot respectively as I am starting to remove material. You can see the nature of the overgrown hooves and the thick chalky soles. I have started to scrape out the collateral grooves but in these photos I am not to the bottom of the grooves yet.

Here are the front feet (left photo is left foot) after I have removed most of the overgrown material. In both feet you can see stretched white line and you can see that the frog is still filling the collateral grooves. It took a couple trims before I was able to completely open up the collateral grooves and have them looking more normal.

Here the upper photo shows the front feet after taking off most of the excess material. The lower photo shows the fronts after more trimming and rasping. Note in the photos how the ripples in the hoof wall turn down at the back of the heels indicating the heel is growing faster than the toe.

Hinds

The two photos below show the back feet. The back right foot is severely overgrown and disconnected. The left foot is severely overgrown and the outside hoof wall has collapsed and rolled under forcing Lilly to walk on the side of her left back foot.

A close up of the back right foot. You can see the very extended toe and how far the heals have been pulled forward.

Here is a close up of the back left foot showing the extended toe and the collapsed and rolled under nature of the outside hoof wall. Looking at the coronet band you can see the angle at which the hoof wants to grow out. One can see the dramatic change in hoof wall angle, called a divergent toe angle. The heel, well it is just wrong.

Here are a couple photos of the underside of the back left foot. You can see the nature of the collapsed and rolled under hoof wall. The frog has a flap that has tried to exfoliate and is sticking out over the hoof wall.

Here is a photo of the left back foot as I was removing overgrown material. I have removed the rolled under flap. The piece I am holding is off the right side of the hoof (as viewed in the photo) showing just how much height material needed to be removed.

In this photo I have removed much of the overgrown toe and I am ready to work on the heel and finish this foot.

Photos of the back right foot. The underside shows the extended toe, the very stretched white line the overgrown frog and the flared heels. And the nearly finished foot.