Feet issues in this dry Summer

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Good morning, everyone. We've had a little bit of rain over the weekend, which has been great, but not quite enough to really affect things. So we are seeing a lot of lameness at the minute. A lot of it's related to feet and that's because we're not getting much hoof growth. The feet are dry, hard and we've had this long, coming up five months now, dry period where the feet have got really hard, soles are exfoliating and we're losing sole depth.

So something if you're starting to see some issues with the feet, it's a really hard job at the minute for the farriers because the feet are not growing that much. So we're using a lot of foot balance X-rays to help. We're also having to use a lot of pads at this time because of the foot balance issues and the lack of growth.

So if you've got a soreness, just have a think about what might be the cause and yeah, foot balance X-rays at this stage, this time of year, are really useful to help us set up heading into winter.

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