My ten-year-old miniature horse stallion has awful hooves! I was recently given him from my aunt but he was in terrible shape. Besides being obese, covered in burs, and clearly lacking balanced nutrition, his hooves are a mess. I've had him for 5 months but it took 4 months to let me pick up his feet. When I did I discovered they were all packed with mud, manure, and hay, it took me 2 hours to pick them out. But in the weeks since I have noticed that three hooves are very hot, his hoof wall is an inch longer than his sole, and the frog in his right fore isn't were it's supposed to be; it is nearly touching the hoof wall on the left side of the hoof. Before I go any further I want everyone to know that I have already called the farrier but he can't come for two more weeks. The horse is lame (obviously) but in the field he walks, trots, canters, and even gallops without showing signs of pain. But when I pick out his hooves each day I'm able to easily pick away the bottom of the sole to where the white part shows. I don't try to do this but his hooves pick up so much mud (even when the field isn't muddy, how he does this I don't know) that I have to push hard in order to get it out that the sole comes with it. He pulls away every time that happens, I would like to use hoof testers on them but I don't have any. His heels and frogs don't make contact with the ground which makes me worry about the rest of his hoof and his legs because of the impact. Also, his heels are super cracked and very hard, to be honest when I picked out his hooves for the first time I thought it was caked on mud. Last but not least all of his hooves have founder rings on them. His stance is not like a horse with laminitis though which confuses me. Taking in all this information does anyone have any ideas as to what he might have?