Good/bad Feet

[Joe67 239]

seen this mentioned a few times now, if possible can yous share some examples of good/bad feet. cheers

[neilsherlock 226]

As a farrier I can tell you what I'd like to see in a worker horse wise, feet in line with the limb when viewed from the front, when viewed from the side, the patterns should not be to long to upright and defo not to sloping. I d rather see patterns upright as opposed to sloping, same goes for the feet, you want bang in the middle but if I had to choose I'd take upright as opposed to flat. If you want a productive, sustained working life the the legs should be straight when viewed from the front and shoulder, pattern angles the same when viewed from the side, no flat spread, crap feet. The joint spaces, ligaments and tendons won't take real work for long.

[RossM 8,121]

[TOMO 26,438]

Great feet on this dog,,, mind she's not perfect,,far from it

 

[crorider 174]

Thought my dog had good feet. They're proper tight, compact and nice hard pads. But he recently cut his pad running on perfectly soft grass. A month before that he put a hole in between his toes right up in the gap..... hopefully both just unlucky and hit something sharp....

[Bosun11 537]

Don't matter what they look like, bad feet knock or break and lay a dog off, good feet don't..!

[bird 9,947]

Don't matter what they look like, bad feet knock or break and lay a dog off, good feet don't..!

fair point that,my dog never had any foot injury's in 6 1/2 years and he ran on all type of ground , but he does have few probs with dew claws , I made sure my pup had them off .but both haven't got what I would call a tight feet, but as above they seem to do ok as yet ?

[Brigzy 1,298]

As with conformation; some people will say they have seen dogs with bad feet that were absolutely great. There's always the exception to the rule, but how much better would these dogs be with good conformation and feet ?

[goldfinch2007 2,332]

also depends on the ground you run them on,dont matter much on good land with no flint

[jeppi26 1,855]

I always like to keep my dogs good on there feet but on the other hand I av had dogs with the poor feet that no matter how much road walking you give them thay wouldn't come up but hardend the pad if anything and thay didn't proformay diffrent to a dog with good feet

[Bosun11 537]

As with conformation; some people will say they have seen dogs with bad feet that were absolutely great. There's always the exception to the rule, but how much better would these dogs be with good conformation and feet ?

Then by the same token, how many dogs have been given the cold shoulder as youngsters because owners 'think' they have poor feet by the way they 'look'. Nothing sadder than a sapling being written off on how it looks before anyone knows how it really runs. Yes, conformation matters but heart and ability matters more IMO.

[baw 4,360]

Well said Bosun. Feet matter, course they do, like a cars wheels, they are there to transfer the power into speed. We all want a dog to tick all the boxes but they don't and bad feet is something you have to live with. There only made of bone and flesh, no matter how good they are, hit against a rock flat out, only one winner. You can only do a lot of road work, harden the pads, get them on there toes and cross your fingers.

[Astanley 11,568]

Don't matter what they look like, bad feet knock or break and lay a dog off, good feet don't..!

yep

[goldfinch2007 2,332]

the dog don't no its got bad feet as long as its doing its job.we got a scout pup with bad feet but still going well

[Joe67 239]

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