Wow.... what a great explanation. We had this problem for awhile with our minis and our QH... Well, now we find out a year later, it was the farrier. He wasn't triming on a level surface ... something like that... and that was the hooves too long as mentioned in another post. So we changed farriers and no more problems in that dept. Our new farrier has me walk our mare around on a lead a bunch on concrete to see if there is any problem he can see. I like this guy... he takes a good long time working on the horses, and he has me walk them around, get them on level concrete and is very very observant about them.
The other thing we now do differently is that we make sure we add minerals to the diet that have the ole "seliumim" in the ingrediants. I'm not sure if it was the farrier, or adding the minerals.... but something did the trick and now... no more problems.
Our vet also said to try these options, before he went for the medical route. He said he was hoping it was something simple. He also suggested exercising the boys too... I did.. So... Yeppers.. it was..simple to deal with, without the vet.
God Bless,
Lynn W
and thanks Dream... for that great explanation.