i have just bought a fell mare who has never been shod and is reluctant to pick her feet up.After 2 weeks with me I have managed to lift both back feet and the near fore, but no way will she pick the near fore up.I have tried reward with the other feet which worked and now she will pick these up without reward, but still the near fore remains planted.If I lean my weight against her she leans even harder against me and lifts her off fore as if to tell me there is a problem with the near but not the off! She trots soundly and moves straight, my vet cannot find anything wrong but I am getting nowhere with this foot and wonder how she will cope with it never being picked out.My farrier had the same problem and managed to get the foot on to a low stand in order to rasp it, but the foot cannor be picked out in the conventional way.Any ideas any one.She has been blind in the right eye from birth when her mother kicked her but apart from this she is a lovely ridden mare of 16 yrs old good in traffic and a responsive ride.
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