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 ND Sweetheart
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Location: In My Own Dream Land | Thank you all so very much for the info!! 
I am switching farries, (mine won't answer my calls, call me back or show up when he is suppose to) so hopefully we can get this figured out. I rode in a soft deep sand pen and she worked amazing, but I know when we go outside she will probably be ouchy. I plan to use rims on her, so i'm glad to hear it has worked well for others.
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 Scorpions R Us
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Location: So. Cali. | tThompson - 2015-04-03 2:05 PM I'm just wondering if she will need more coverage than just a shoe. Anyone used anything like this??
I used this on my mare for two different seasons. Same scenario, tender footed, clean xrays, but actual pads caused discomfort to her heels because she lands so heavily heel first. Pour in pads were great, but after too long of use they start preventing the horse to grow a frog and sole, so a break from the pour in every so often when you can would be best.
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 Sweet Lil Tagalong
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Location: taking the road less traveled... | I tried the pour in pads with the vettec and the mesh and within two weeks it was starting to come out like peel and didnt hold up well with marshy humid conditions. When you live in a state where it rains about 75 inches a year and its humid, its extremely hard to keep good hard soles unless you keep them up 24/7 and that is not an option. My horses stay up at night and are out during the day unless its bad weather. I had the same scenario with my horse, he grows a tremendous amount of hoof wall but barely any sole and stays tender. X rays were clean as well, so next step is to try the leather pad with the vet tec under the leather pad to prevent mud, dirt, thrush, and all other hoof fungus away. If anyone has any experience with living in humid, moist weather year round with any advice on keeping a thin soled horse from being tender and grow more sole, I am open to suggestions. Btw I have tried every hoof supplement known to man kind including durasole and rickens.
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Sweet Lil Tagalong
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Location: taking the road less traveled... | Anyone ? Help ! |
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The Advice Guru
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| Maybe I am in left field, but when my vet says the X-rays are clean, the sole depth is within the acceptible limit.
So my question is to the people who have had X-rays and the vet say they are clean, is he measuring the sole,
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| ITurnCans - 2015-06-03 12:09 AM
I tried the pour in pads with the vettec and the mesh and within two weeks it was starting to come out like peel and didnt hold up well with marshy humid conditions. When you live in a state where it rains about 75 inches a year and its humid, its extremely hard to keep good hard soles unless you keep them up 24/7 and that is not an option. My horses stay up at night and are out during the day unless its bad weather. I had the same scenario with my horse, he grows a tremendous amount of hoof wall but barely any sole and stays tender. X rays were clean as well, so next step is to try the leather pad with the vet tec under the leather pad to prevent mud, dirt, thrush, and all other hoof fungus away. If anyone has any experience with living in humid, moist weather year round with any advice on keeping a thin soled horse from being tender and grow more sole, I am open to suggestions. Btw I have tried every hoof supplement known to man kind including durasole and rickens.
Thanks!
You have to change the environment, period. I know you said that is not an option but it has to be. Supplements will not protect a wet bad foot.
We have shoers in our area that will not even shoe a horse that isn't kept in a manageable environment because it is a waste of their time. Most especially with pads or therapeutic shoes. Sorry I wish I had better advice.
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 Blaines and Beauty
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| My husband is a farrier and he loves equi pack. It has helped so many horses that are tender footed. Also if you did not want to go with the pour in route, keratex hoof hardner works excellent (brush it on the soles).
Edited by FlyinByU 2015-06-04 11:15 AM
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | One of my horses started getting sore on both front feet, not enough to be totally lame, but definitely tender. My vet took x-rays, and my farrier was there at the time too. They didn't find any sign of navicular or anything, but they treated it like that and put small wedge pads under his shoes and it helped a LOT. My other one wore pads for several months while growing out a hole from an abscess. They kept him totally sound and comfortable and wouldn't hesitate to put pads back on if one of my horses showed me they needed them. |
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| I just recently had mine shoed at a university. She is SUPER thin soled and was iffy on concrete, gravels, and hard dirt. I had shoes put on the front with pads and the Equipak poured underneath the pads. It was the pink colored equipak, so the softest one. I have read where you want the softer ones on thin soled horses because it needs to be softer on their feet vs the more supportive pour ins (hard ground). I originally wanted to have it all poured with not pads but the shoer said I would lose a lot of traction because the pour in would come level with the shoe, so we opted for the pads and pour in underneath. |
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Location: Canada | I have a gelding who wears 365 days/ yr. I use the black cheap 3.99 a pair. My farrier is amazing about keeping him balanced and padded and hes never been ouching since. It was to the point that we couldn't even shoe him on the dirt...he had to be shod standing on a foam matt....hence the idea to add the pad! I would try the 3.99 ones first and see is you get relief. There is different thicknesses as well. I use the popper ones in the winter because we love our snow in Canada  |
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