Daisy has a blowout

I had noticed Daisy had become slightly lame over this past weekend but was super busy with riding and getting ready for my grandmother I didn't investigate too deeply.  On Monday, after picking up the grandmother, I noticed Daisy was noticeably lame so I sighed and gave her a half gram of bute.  On Tuesday I had time to mess with her so I brushed her down and picked her feet out.  As I got to her right front, her worst foot, I saw what looked like poo stuck to her foot, sticking out from the sides.  I picked it out and realized what I saw was not in fact poo, it was her heel.

 What are you looking at you say?

Her huge heel has been demolished.  The farrier thinks it was the body simply shedding the frog in a dramatic fashion, this is the foot we have had issues with the frog not actually being attached and being thrushy.  Don't remember what it looked like?  Here is pic from Feb-ish to show how much heel we have:

This is a hind foot, but the heel size is about the same.

You can see how much heel there was, we had taken some of the heels off but not too much as we were working more on angles.  Anyway, Daisy was pretty sore on it so I tried to soak it to clean it.  Let's just say donkey's think buckets with water are meant to eat any foot that dare enter said bucket.  I had tied her up, good idea on my part, and Daisy proceeded to sit back and pull and pull and pull.  When she wasn't pulling she was trying to rear or walking in zig zags.  When she finally stood for a moment in said bucket I took the opportunity to pick the foot up to apply some neopsporin before wrapping.  This proved to be unwise as Daisy reared and basically put her front leg over my back while still pulling backwards.  She was finally able to wrestle her foot away from me and she dug into the sand trying to pull away.  Ugh.  Donkey - 2 Me - 0

Repeated the process again with very similar results so I gave up and asked the grandmother to help pour some of the water over the hoof while I held it.  That should be easier, right?  No hoof eating buckets, I will be holding a leg, I'll be in control. Except it turns out donkeys hate water being poured on their foot even more than they hate buckets.  Needless to say I got soaked.  And dirty.  And thrown around a little.  But I was able to get the hoof *mostly* clean so I removed the evil water from the equation, brushed out the dirt I could, put a big ribbon of neosporin in the frog area and wrapped it with vet wrap and duct tape.  On the plus side my vet wrap was black and my duct tape was yellow so she looked like a big caution sign.  Donkey - 5 Me - 1.  I am calling that victory.

The farrier came out last night and trimmed the frog/heel flaps completely off so they wouldn't catch on anything.  She is now over an inch shorter on the right front foot, when the farrier is out in June he said he will start cutting the heels down more to prevent this happening on the other feet.  Unfortunately she was a little too ouchy to try trimming the left front to level her out.

She is back on bute and will be for a few more days and thankfully it really has helped.  She is now back down to a half gram twice a day and I hope to give it to her only in the AM starting this weekend.  I have to try to soak her foot in some solution for 15-30 mins a day (really farrier?!?!?) and apply a combo of neosporin/athletes foot cream daily to keep anything from developing while the tissues heal.  I am thinking my best option will be a heavy gallon sized freezer bag duct taped to her leg.  There isn't any way I will be able to get her to stand still that long with a bucket or the too large soaker boot the farrier brought.  Let's see if I survive the weekend.