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 Love Me Some Robert Redford
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Location: WV | Vet appointment today  Come to find out my mare that has been shaking her head has a mouth full of problems. GRRR! Had a teeth float last June and the vet said she was good to go. This morning at clinic a different vet showed me her mouth and everything that was wrong. Two ulcers one on each side of her mouth in the back and she has two teeth on each side coming down and making a ramp shape. So she power floated her teeth as much as she was comfortable doing at one time and said we need to do more in six months. Making a longer story short, she suggested trying a hack on her for awhile. I have no idea on where to start with this. She will need something with a little whoa to it. She is the type you have to hold back a little but still is light in the face. Any suggestions?
Note: I am really upset about this. She said it would take some time for her teeth to get this way. I have had her about a year. I was told she had been kept up on. Myself I would have not been able to get a good look at her teeth just by looking in her mouth myself but the vet that floated her last time should have known and she could not have been kept up like I was told if it had gotten this far. When I got her the previous owner said she shakes her head a little bit at the first of the year when you start riding again. Well let me tell ya... She had a dang good reason. I cant believe the only thing she done was throw her head and prance a little. |
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Location: USA | I would suggest an equine dentist and not a vet to float my horses teeth. That's their specialty, unless your vet possibly specializes in floating teeth. There's a lot more to the equine mouth than most vets know what to do with. Most vets just file down the ramps on the molars. A dentist will do so much more like put in bit seats, file down the incisors . . . they also notice the little things that make a big difference when riding.
As for the hack, you have to be careful because I've been told a hack can also bother them if their mouth is jacked up. Where are her ulcers located - inside gum or outside? Are you going to be running barrels in a hack? If her ulcers are on the outside gum line, how far back in the mouth? I know there isn't anything inside her mouth with a hack, but if you run barrels on her and guide her around the barrel, sometimes the shank on the hack can rub on the outside of her face and put pressure on the inside of her mouth. If they have sharp edges on their teeth or the ulcers you were talking about, it may put pressure on her and that'll hurt too. Just a thought  Good luck with everything and I hope her mouth gets to feeling better!!
I like the short shank Jim Warner
Edited by Dreamingofcans 2014-04-26 5:57 PM
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | I like the Carl hack from L&W bits. It's got whoa, but is still pretty light. I get it with a rope nose.
http://www.lwbits.com/Hackamores.html |
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 Underestimated Underdog
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Location: Minnesota | I use a Pozzi Hack on my gelding. He too needs some woah and I've never had an issue with this hack. |
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Location: Texas | i like the little s. plenty of whoa for mine |
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Love Me Some Robert Redford
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Location: WV | I did not think about the hack rubbing the area where the ulcer are located in her mouth. They are pretty far back in her mouth. We will not be running barrel right now especially if I have try a hack on her for now. We do not have and equine dentist around. The closest dentist I know of comes to a barn a few hours from my house but once a year or maybe twice and he comes from two states away. Thank you for all the advice.  |
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Sock Snob
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| Had horse with mouth problems and hacks are not,are always not the answer because it clamps on the head clamps teeth together. A bit that the horse likes might be the best. I bought a horse like this once the teeth are done the first time itmhelps them you should be able to,find a bit and in a couple of months they can go back in and fix the rest.. Imhave had a coulpe of horse dentist and use a coule of vets that do,theeth amd found where i live the vet has done better as a couple of my horses are heavy jawed and found that my vet that can sedate and put his head on the stand with the speculim, sp. Getting there teeth level and all the hooks. I have used severalhorse dentist most of them up here have hand tools ans no sedation. |
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Location: My Own Little World | Here's my 2 cents. I am a hackamore kind of person. I own probably 8 different ones and BY FAR the best bridle I have ever owned is a Ronny Clampitt hackamore. He will visit with you about you and your horse, then build one suited to the two of you. It helps if he can see video of you both riding. I know there's sure a lot of hacks out there to choose from but Ronny's are just over the top good. I can give you refrences of folks with horses that were just awful to ride until they were in a Clampitt hack. You can message him here or on FB |
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Love Me Some Robert Redford
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Location: WV | There are only a few large animal vets in my area and they do both power and hand float. This is a newer vet to our area and I really liked her. She has worked mainly with horses. Now I was looking at a Jim Warner hack to try but afraid of trying it out now. I don't want to throw money out on a hack if I don't need it or if it's not going to help us. |
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 Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | mam0329 - 2014-04-27 8:40 AM There are only a few large animal vets in my area and they do both power and hand float. This is a newer vet to our area and I really liked her. She has worked mainly with horses. Now I was looking at a Jim Warner hack to try but afraid of trying it out now. I don't want to throw money out on a hack if I don't need it or if it's not going to help us.
Jim Warners hold their value pretty well. There are often people posting that they're looking for one on the Barrel racing tack swap pages on facebook.
It would be my recommendation for any horse. I love it on everything. Only run one horse in it because I need a little more bend with a couple others but it's my top pick to just go ride in. Has decent whoa but you can also get their nose and have some flex in it unlike many other hacks. |
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