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| My horse threw a shoe at the barrel race yesterday. He is being reshod on Friday morning. My pens are pretty soft but went ahead and left soft rides on last night and they were fine. Cleaned his feet and left them on today to. Came home from work and he had destroyed both of them in his four year old tinkering around self! I'm not really thrilled but any tricks to get me by until Friday? Will super strong duct tape even work? Thanks. |
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| I duct tape a disposable diaper on the hoof-leave it folded and it will have a lot of cushion. |
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Location: Louisiana | Yep diaper with duct tape. Depends how much he walks around it might last 24 hours. Definitely 12. It helps to precut your strips and have them ready to go.
I wrapped one like that for 3 weeks daily. I'm a pro lol. |
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| rodeomom3 - 2015-12-14 4:51 PM
I duct tape a disposable diaper on the hoof-leave it folded and it will have a lot of cushion.
Thanks. My horse is able to bend down and rip stuff. Lol I wonder if he would be able to get it off. Lol |
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Location: The Great Northwest | I have an easy boot ready for such a situation. |
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| If he likes to rip things off, I would do the diaper, vet wrap up to the ankle then duct tape, it will take him more time to rip it off.
Also if you sprinkle pepper on the vet wrap he should leave it alone,... hopefully |
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| On a clean kitchen counter lay down about six pieces of duct tape about 15 or 16 inches long. Repeat going at right angles. With scissors, city diagonally in but not any deeper than the diameter of the hoof. Did you ever make a paper pinwheel? Same design. You can pull this up of the counter and instant boot. You can get breast feeding pads in the baby section at Walmart. Those pads fit perfeçtly in the hoof but you do not actually have to have them. When you put on the boot those cuts you made will contour right around the foot. One last wrap around the ankle will secure it. |
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| cheryl makofka - 2015-12-14 6:10 PM
If he likes to rip things off, I would do the diaper, vet wrap up to the ankle then duct tape, it will take him more time to rip it off.
Also if you sprinkle pepper on the vet wrap he should leave it alone,... hopefully
Thanks for all the ideas! I actually wrapped his ankle once and he pulled on it enough that the vet wrap rolled and cut off his circulation. Oh gees..lol |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | If hes in soft ground and dont ride him I would not worry about wraping.. |
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| I had a horse that I thought was chewing a wound and go5 a bib to put on his halter. Worked great. |
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| Yes my pen is soft and I'm not riding him this week. He would probably be just fine but have a vet appointment tomorrow just to get his hocks flex tested so I don't want any tenderness to affect that. After tomorrow he can go back on his EQ pure and be fine until Friday. |
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| elasticon,,, its like a ace bandage but sticky and put duct tape over it... it lasts for days on my horse
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| Southtxponygirl - 2015-12-14 9:02 PM
If hes in soft ground and dont ride him I would not worry about wraping..
This - I wouldn't even give it a second thought! |
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Temporary hoof wrap!?