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| Mine wears wedged aluminum eggbars. And does nothing but sit in the pasture :) |
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Location: United States | Mine was shod in hand made onion shoes with a rim and pour in pads. Bursa injections were next until I felt the cost was too much to maintain her comfort as a working horse. I sold her as a broodmare and her first foal (who will be fabulous) is due any day. I know many people have success with this route of shoes, but every horse responds different. I would be cautious of wedge shoes longer than 60 days. Just my humble opinion. |
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| Ok..what is an onion shoe. |
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Location: Where the buffalo roam | I have always had mine in eventers since they offer more sole/heel protection, but this year I switched to a Vulcan Roller Motion rim shoe and make sure he has lots of heel support and he is doing great in them. They are also wider than the standard rim so a little like an eventer. We also did Tildren (Osphos did not work for him) and a coffin injection in one foot. I do not like bar shoes or wedges and have not found a need for them as I shoe him every 5-6 weeks and that keeps his angle good. He is 15 and still going strong. |
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| We have several, one is shod in o bar shoes with sole pads, one is in wedges, then the mare in my profile picture has 'navicular changes' but I wouldn't quite call her navicular - she's in wedges with sole pads. |
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Location: North Dakota | pippy - 2016-03-10 11:49 AM Mine was shod in hand made onion shoes with a rim and pour in pads. Bursa injections were next until I felt the cost was too much to maintain her comfort as a working horse. I sold her as a broodmare and her first foal (who will be fabulous) is due any day. I know many people have success with this route of shoes, but every horse responds different. I would be cautious of wedge shoes longer than 60 days. Just my humble opinion.
Why are you cautious of wedges for more than 60 days? |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | RunfastNTurn - 2016-03-10 12:16 PM Ok..what is an onion shoe.
I'm sure glad you asked that question!  |
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Location: United States | Silly name Dr called it huh!? It's a circle shoe. |
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Location: United States | pippy - 2016-03-10 3:26 PM
Silly name Dr called it huh!? It's a circle shoe.
It was stressed to me that it was not healthy for the deep digital flexor tendon. |
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| Natural Balance PLR's with wedge pads.
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Location: North Dakota | pippy - 2016-03-10 2:28 PM pippy - 2016-03-10 3:26 PM Silly name Dr called it huh!? It's a circle shoe. It was stressed to me that it was not healthy for the deep digital flexor tendon.
Can you please elaborate on whats not healthy for the deep digital? One would think the opposite, so now I'm totally curious.
I've had my horse in 4 degree wedge shoes for almost a year now and its the only thing that keeps him sound. |
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Location: United States | WYOTurn-n-Burn - 2016-03-10 4:14 PM
pippy - 2016-03-10 2:28 PM pippy - 2016-03-10 3:26 PM Silly name Dr called it huh!? It's a circle shoe. It was stressed to me that it was not healthy for the deep digital flexor tendon.
I've had my horse in 4 degree wedge shoes for almost a year now and its the only thing that keeps him sound.
I sorry I spoke wrong about putting strain on the ddft. I meant suspensory and other anatomy in the foot. It's been a long time since I have had discussion about this but the wedge does offer relief to the ddft. I'm glad it offers relief to your horse, the bottom line is their comfort. |
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| kboltwkreations - 2016-03-10 2:44 PM
Natural Balance PLR's with wedge pads.
Like this:
This is what my mare is wearing minus the pads...
How long have you had your horse shod this way and do you leave them shod all year? |
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Location: OH | We do not have any navicular horses that we compete on, but a couple broodmares. Navicular is a man made problem and ours seem to do a lot better with no shoes and they wear there feet down and I continue to trim them at that angle.
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| RunfastNTurn - 2016-03-11 9:55 AM
kboltwkreations - 2016-03-10 2:44 PM
Natural Balance PLR's with wedge pads.
Like this:
This is what my mare is wearing minus the pads...
How long have you had your horse shod this way and do you leave them shod all year?
Started him like this last June when I bought him (knew he had the issues). He was dead lame before.
As soon as we put him in these shoes he was sound. Has only been a hair off on the right front in Oct, injected coffin joints (he had not had ANY injections since Feb 2014) and gave him Osphos. He has been great ever since.
Seeing how he was before I cant imagine taking him out of these shoes.
A girl who boards at our place used them on her mare (she is not anywhere near as bad navicular as mine) and she had horrible results. Her mare got really stood up in them and feet started doing some weird changing. Same farrier, so goes to show they are not for every horse. |
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| Thanks.. she is shod according to xrays. Not dead lame by any means but not quite right either. I was also thinking about injecting and osphos as well. Did you do the osphos and injections at the same time or at different times?? Thank you for your input by the way!! :o) |
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| RunfastNTurn - 2016-03-11 10:55 AM
Thanks.. she is shod according to xrays. Not dead lame by any means but not quite right either. I was also thinking about injecting and osphos as well. Did you do the osphos and injections at the same time or at different times?? Thank you for your input by the way!! :o)
Yes did them on the same day, it was his first osphos injection. I gave him 3 weeks between osphos and next run. His neck was super sore from the injections for about 3 days but that was only side affect I saw.
I commented a bunch on this thread about it with video:
http://forums.barrelhorseworld.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid...
Ran him for the first time in 2016 a few weeks ago and he crept up into the 3D (300+ entries) with huge bobbles after being a solid 4D/5D horse for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwROGtvyauE
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Location: California | The mare in my profile pic is now sound because of her natural balance shoes and navicular bursa injections. While she is not diagnosed technically with navicular the vet said it would not shock him if she ends up that way. We are doing everything possible to prevent it from happening. I've been battling since last September to get her sound and we THINK she finally is.
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Location: TEXAS | I tried everything. Now he's barefooted and sound |
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