You should consult an experienced farrier for advice since many young horses will toe out at first due to lack of muscle development. These horses generally straighten on their own as they fill out. If you try to correct them, they will become crooked later due to interference with their bone growth. Also, the colt could be toeing out due to rotation of the bone at the fetlock joint or the entire leg if it is not structurally correct. It is important to look at the whole leg and know what deviations can be helped by trimming so that you do not hinder or injure the horse by mistakenly applying a correction that is not needed or the wrong correction. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you consult an experienced farrier for your colt.
However, if the colt toes out, the outside wall of the hoof will wear faster if he is also base narrow (stands close in front). Therefore, the inside wall should be rasped level with the outside wall; then remove additional wall if the hoof is too long after it is leveled. Horses that are base wide (stand wide at the feet) that toe out tend to land on the inside aspect of the wall. Therefore, the outside wall of the hoof should be rasped level with the inside wall; then remove additional wall if the hoof is too long after it is leveled.
