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Location: midwest mama | My daughter's horse has had some foot issues, and has recently been shod with aluminum wedge shoes and full pads. He has gone from being a 3 out of 5 on the lameness exam to a .5 out of 5 - he is almost normal.
Right now they are trying this shoeing set up for a bit while he has some time off, but I was just wondering, if he still needs some version of this for awhile (or maybe forever), has anyone ever been able to compete on their barrel horse in this type of shoeing set up? We just have never had a horse that needed much more than a regular set of shoes, so we don't have a clue.
Anyone have any experience with this? |
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Location: TN | My horse wears 3 degree aluminum wedges on front and hasn't had any ground issues (knock on wood). It helps him and I haven't had any problems out of them. |
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| My mare has ran in wedge shoes for 6 years due to not growing enough heel (bad shoeing when she was younger), and just recently came up lame so we had her xrayed and her soles are nearly gone. So she has pads on now and probably will for a few more shoeings. She now wears XL bells boots all the time. Not sure if you have the same kind, but she runs great with them. Not a single off step.
ETA: This mare's front feet are completely covered. You pick her feet up and the pad is flat with the shoe. Her sole is not exposed at all.
Edited by FlyingHigh1454 2015-07-11 2:24 PM
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Location: Texas | i have one of mine in aluminum wedges. she has "broke back" angles so we were trying to correct that. My farrier said if I like how she does in the aluminum wedges, he will put her back in a regular rim shoe and put plastic half pads and pour in puddy to wedge her up but where her frog still feels like its making contact with something.
I was doing regular shoes with leather pads and it didnt do anything so now we are trying to wedge her just a hair. her radiographs look great other than the angle from her pastern through her hoof could be corrected. |
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Location: Jersey Girl | I had a horse that I ran in aluminum wedges only, never had any issues. |
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Location: SW MO | I have had three horses with wedge shoes and pads, my vet used a foam insert to make a cup so that the equi-pack is slightly thinner. This way the bottom of the shoe isn't completely flat and there is less chance of slipping, etc. |
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Location: TN | yep, 3 degree on the best horse I ever had retired now but her lil sister is in a aluminum wedg(basic)
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| Are you asking about front or back, or either?
My navicular horse is retired now, but the last year I ran him he was in wedged aluminum egg bars with full pads. They were his saving grace as far as soundness goes, and his last year was his best year ever. I only decided to retire him because I had 2 other mares that were faster than him, and it wasn't worth chancing him hurting himself for good.
I have another mare in wedged aluminums on the back for hock support and she runs great in them too. |
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Location: North Dakota | Yup. My current horse Red has a 3 degree pad with a steel rim shoe on his front feet. He's still getting more consistent but he's clocked two very nice 1D runs this year (2nd place out of 40+ and 3rd place out of 60+). We were doing a 2 degree pad last year but we bumped it up to 3 this year and I think he's doing even better with that.
Just make sure if you are doing a wedge shoe that you have some sort of pad underneath for frog support. The way my farrier has explained the dynamics to me, you can do either a wedge pad (with shoe) or wedge shoe (with pad), but you must have that frog support when you are wedging the foot up.
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