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| My 4 year old off the track is now pretty much a finished horse and is really running and turning hard....... He is starting to simply turn so hard he is twisting out of his front shoes EVERY single run! He has thin walls and that is a problem. He has grown so much wall over the last year but I can't keep resetting and tacking on front shoes after EVERY single run! Any ideas? Duct tape? My farrier says glue ons won't help. I need some ideas. Thanks! |
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| I've seen Farriers' Formula work miracles. It helps grow a much healthier, thicker hoof wall and sole. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Shoes that have the clips  |
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| Why is he turning on his front end?
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| My mare now retired would shift her rear shoes. But i say clips will help. So,e farriers will leave feet a little long so if they lost a shoe they would have something to nail to. Maybe try a new farrier. Or get advise from another farrier.have you tried natural balance.
Edited by daisycake123 2015-11-15 6:19 PM
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | What kind of shoes on the fronts?? |
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Location: your guess is as good as mine | Southtxponygirl - 2015-11-15 4:47 PM Shoes that have the clips
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| I had a horse that was constantly pulling shoes, clips certainly helped! |
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| arion - 2015-11-15 3:21 PM
Why is he turning on his front end?
He actually has this really awesome style where he runs hard, really sets in the hind end, and just plants the front end and comes right around. It feels awesome but when he plants and turns. Boy howdy. Lol |
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| lonely va barrelxr - 2015-11-15 4:42 PM
no shoes
GOSH I WOULD love no shoes!!!!! And Instead of taking him back to my regular Shoer to have it fixed I am taking him to a different guy tomorrow that comes highly recommended. The shoes he has now are called triumph elites. He used a 5 slim blade nail. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | My brown gelding is like this, he uses his hindend, but seems like he grabs with his front feet coming around the barrels. |
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Location: Florida.. | Clips are all good until one gets ripped off.. then alot of damage happens.. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I wonder if hot shoeing would help your horse? I cant remember the right words for hot shoeing, but its were the shoe is burn into the foot a bit, it helps to seal the shoe on. |
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Location: The Great Northwest | Shoes with clips would help. Alfalfa will help too for the hooves. I have had shoes with clips pulled off and never any damage to the hoof.
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| FLITASTIC - 2015-11-15 6:56 PM
lonely va barrelxr - 2015-11-15 4:42 PM
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GOSH I WOULD love no shoes!!!!! And Instead of taking him back to my regular Shoer to have it fixed I am taking him to a different guy tomorrow that comes highly recommended. The shoes he has now are called triumph elites. He used a 5 slim blade nail.
If the horse is twisting the nails, you may need to go to a bigger nail.
If the shoes don't allow the bigger nail, you may need to drill the holes larger in the shoe |
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| FLITASTIC - 2015-11-15 6:56 PM lonely va barrelxr - 2015-11-15 4:42 PM no shoes GOSH I WOULD love no shoes!!!!! And Instead of taking him back to my regular Shoer to have it fixed I am taking him to a different guy tomorrow that comes highly recommended. The shoes he has now are called triumph elites. He used a 5 slim blade nail.
My big, hard running mare Xena surprised me to no end with how well she adjusted to barefoot. I thought for sure that with how she winged and used her fronts she would not do well, for some reason. I have watched her videos since going barefoot and she actually uses her fronts much more normal without the shoes. Her flares from uneven use are half since she's been barefoot. And I had less issues with her on the pattern overall than while she was shod.
My stallion Zan with his club foot - he's always used that foot a bit oddly also. Part of what got me to the point of enough frustration to try barefoot was his last farrier telling me that he had to shoe that foot WRONG in order to keep shoes on more than one show weekend. I swear at one point his hoof was solid nail holes. I decided to go one winter without shoes and just trim. During that winter I located my current farrier, who does nothing but balanced trimming. ALL my guys are now shoeless, and their hooves have never been better.
It can take some time for a bad hoof to come around to good. One of mine took nearly 2 years, but her's were a special case of bad, having made it to 6 years of age without any foot care (she came to me at age 6). I've seen draft shoes, and she was up there at the #5 range, but it was all flare. One trim doesn't change everything. |
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| Thanks for all the suggestions! I wrote them down! I will share with the Shoer tomorrow. When I got this horse off the track a year ago he was extremely thin soled and walled. He is so much better but I fear with no shoes he will absolutely be crippled. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Southtxponygirl - 2015-11-15 4:47 PM
Shoes that have the clips
YES!! Clips!!! |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Bibliafarm - 2015-11-15 7:00 PM
Clips are all good until one gets ripped off.. then alot of damage happens..
There are two ways to do clips. Right and wrong. Right= have the clips in the correct position when you nail the shoe on.
Wrong= nail the shoe on and hammer the clips up against the wall. |
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