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 No Tune in a Bucket
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Location: Texas | Do they really work? I have a mare that stands at her feeder and paws the whole time she eats. She is pretty much a pasture ornament so I don't think she is stressed. Last week she pawed the fence and now has a nasty cut right above her hoof. Even all bandaged up, she feels the need to paw. (sigh) I want to make her stop this annoying habit. Am I dreaming? |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Maybe try hobbling, I would not put kick chains on if she is close to a fence I would worry about the chain getting caught in the fence if its wire unless you make the chains short then it might work.. Another thing you can try is getting two horse shoes and making them to where you can silde them on her front legs and when she paws it will slide and hit her pastern bone and that will fix the pawing I would think.. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Heres a pawing bracelet that you can buy in pairs..
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No Tune in a Bucket
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Location: Texas | That looks interesting. Might give that a try when she heals up. |
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Location: SoCal | I have one mare that paws (young and impatient lol) and one mare that weaves (OTT), and I was recently recommended to do the horseshoes, but I am the sort that needs a picture to understand it. Anyone have one they can PM me?  From what I understood, they're pinched a little closed, but open enough still that they can slide onto the leg? I guess I get confused about how they don't just fall off when pawing?
On a side note, we have tried a kicking chain for the mare that paws, she likes to just even stand in her corral and hit posts with her feet when she's bored. She's odd. But, they do partially stop her from pawing, she'll do it every once in a while if she forgets she has them on, and if you only have it on one foot, she'll paw with the other one. I just am trying to avoid trailering her with them to keep her from getting the other horses... If I can't figure out the horseshoes, I'll be investing in a good, sturdy pair of hobbles.
Edited by Last Catt 2018-11-30 9:02 PM
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Location: South Georgia | You can make paw chains. Dog collars and attach a foot of chain to the leash D ring. |
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Location: PA | Last Catt - 2018-11-30 9:00 PM I have one mare that paws (young and impatient lol ) and one mare that weaves (OTT ), and I was recently recommended to do the horseshoes, but I am the sort that needs a picture to understand it. Anyone have one they can PM me? From what I understood, they're pinched a little closed, but open enough still that they can slide onto the leg? I guess I get confused about how they don't just fall off when pawing? On a side note, we have tried a kicking chain for the mare that paws, she likes to just even stand in her corral and hit posts with her feet when she's bored. She's odd. But, they do partially stop her from pawing, she'll do it every once in a while if she forgets she has them on, and if you only have it on one foot, she'll paw with the other one. I just am trying to avoid trailering her with them to keep her from getting the other horses... If I can't figure out the horseshoes, I'll be investing in a good, sturdy pair of hobbles.
I have these! You take regular horse shoes and bend them in some at the ends. You put them over the cannon bone and they slide down over the ankle and rest on top of the coronet band, it stays on there and "bangs" around on them when they start pawing/acting up........they learn quick to stop as it hurts when hitting/bumping around down there. I had one gelding that was hard headed and actually made sores on himself........he learned after that! |
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