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Impacted bar hoof capsule

The story on this horse I got from Tree:  this was a horse getting a Jackson-style trim at a rescue operation.  He was found dead in a pond, and pulled out.  He laid there for 2-3 days before they could get a backhoe operator out to bury him.  In the meantime, his hooves loosened, and the dogs pulled the hooves off.  Apparently his hoof capsules were set aside where the dogs could not get at them after that, and Tree salvaged them.  She tells me that she had seen his feet before he died, and when they had just been pulled off by the dogs before they dried out fully...and that the main changes she saw in his hoof capsules after they dried more was that the frogs shrank, not that the bars became more impacted.

Here is another hoof capsule from her collection, also just air-dried, and stored the same way, showing less bar impaction:

Its coffin bone is also in the photo.  This horse had sidebone.  Like in the first specimen, the frog was the area that shrank the most from drying, but the bars are less impacted in this specimen that was also just air-dried, and stored under the same conditions.

Tree mentioned in a recent post where she gets specimens in her collection:
"I'm like a scavenger when I attend workshops or Seminars where there will be a supply of cadavers. Following these events the hosts will be left with cadavers because not everyone takes theirs with them. So the leftovers have to be removed somehow, which can mean hauling them off to the dump. I ended up buying untrimmed ones from a host, or just asking to have the leftovers, and most were only too happy to be rid of them.

"Otherwise, I will harvest legs from those that were euthed on my place (when it's THEIR time, not before) or pick up some from people who have given permission to harvest legs from their own. We don't have a renderer near by and the State Diagnostic Lab doesn't allow body parts to be taken from their facility (probably due to legalities of some sort)."

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