It'll be real interesting to see if trimming him differently solves it, and how long it takes... think it'd take more than one shoeing?
I wondered if, the way he is now, would he get backsore just moving in the pasture or on lunge, or is it the stride along with carrying weight that does it?
From what she says, it sounded like riding him makes it worse, because I'm sitting right where he has lost support. That a longer backed horse would sore up even with out a rider. She said if I hadn't caught the problem when I did it could have gotten so bad that all we could have done was pull his shoes and put him out to pasture for 6 months. She doesn't think it's that bad yet.
I think since his stride is still pretty good at the walk that moving around the pasture is not a problem. Right now his back foot is landing a good foot and half to 2 foot from where his front foot was. If you think about it, beings as he use to click at the trot, his stride is considerably shorter. She said to get him back forging again, then slowly back his stride off till it's right at the point where he doesn't click, or just leave it alone. The only reason to try to correct it would be the points I would loose at a ride, but I don't think I'm going to worry about that. It would only be 1 point, that's alot better then 12 from a sore back. I want to get his stride back to what is normal for him then leave him alone.
She also said about the length of time, it depends on how fast his feet grow, it could take several shoeings. Her recommendation was to add Knox Geletin to his feed to speed hoof growth.
Becky