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Back hooves keep chipping, losing shoes

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Southtxponygirl
Reg. Nov 2006
Posted 2018-06-08 9:54 AM
Subject: RE: Back hooves keep chipping, losing shoes



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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas		She did get/read my pm on the 6th, so I'm hoping she is ok. 

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Dreamingofcans
Reg. Jan 2011
Posted 2018-06-08 11:46 AM
Subject: RE: Back hooves keep chipping, losing shoes



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Location: USA		 Southtxponygirl I did get your message! Sorry I had been at work and wasn’t able to get pics. I bought this horse back in September and she came from a pretty humid climate. I changed her feed when I bought her (gradually) because I cant feed processed feeds. I have a horse who is deathly allergic to soy and I refuse to have any feed or supplements with soy in it for safety issues. I have a non-horsey husband who sometimes feeds for me and I don’t want to run the risk of the horse who’s allergic to accidentally get fed soy. Well, my farrier came out to tack her shoe back on. He looked at the shoe and could tell from how the nails were bent that she was most likely stomping from the flies and stomped her shoe off. He was able to get the shoe tacked on and the hoof wall actually didn’t chip this time. I got to looking at her feet and you can see where the new growth is from when her feed changed. She’s apparently a very slow grower which is why my farrier has only shod her 3 times in 9 months. So I think everything combined: dry climate and stomping from flies really did a number on her. Her new growth looks good but it’s not anywhere near the nail holes so maybe in a couple of months I’ll see how it holds up with a new set of shoes. I did get her some shoofly leggings and rear  cloud boots... so hopefully this will help. Thank you everyone for your responses!! Y’all are awesome and so helpful. I want to see if this will help first and see if her new growth is better when she gets shod. She just grows soooo slow! 
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