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 No Tune in a Bucket
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Location: Texas | What can be done if your horse has thin soles? This always horse has been mostly barefoot. Came up lame and vet says probably a stone bruise. Xrays of bad foot shows extremely thin soles. |
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  That's White "Man" to You
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| pads. I have a friend that is trying Osphos. |
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| I have a rocker shoe leather pads n equipack |
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No Tune in a Bucket
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Location: Texas | Vet is recommending pour in pad and shoes.
Edited by RocketPilot 2016-10-20 6:42 PM
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Married to a Louie Lover
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| I think it depends on what you want to do with him and when.
If you have time - correct, balanced trimming and a diet that will encourage good growth. If he's too lame to be comfortable I would consider boots to turn him out in.
If he has to go to work right away, pad him up, but good balanced trimming and diet adjustments still have to happen.
I'm not anti shoe, I'm just not convinced it does anything but mask the issue in this case. |
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| My track baby had super thin soles. Use RICKENS hoof paint. THat will work awesome while they are growing out. It took my horse TWO YEARS of proper shoeing to get right. |
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No Tune in a Bucket
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Location: Texas | Thank you everyone. I am going to look for the Rickens stuff. I think we have a long road to get his feet into really good shape. |
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| RocketPilot - 2016-10-20 11:39 PM
Thank you everyone. I am going to look for the Rickens stuff. I think we have a long road to get his feet into really good shape.
DO NOT get it on your hands!!!! It IS great stuff! |
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| I agree with Rickens. It will really help with sore feet. Helps harden the soles. Look into OE Nutraceuticals supplement for feet. It works. Will help with growth. Another thing that will help is magnetic bell boots. Anything to speed up blood flow.
Edited by readytorodeo 2016-10-21 6:29 AM
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Location: Friendswood, Texas | One of my mares came up lame late this summer. X-rays showed only 5mm of sole in one hoof and 9mm in the other. Normal is 12-15mm. He recommended corrective shoes (we went with heartbar with pads and Equilox) and Farriers Formula Double Strength supplement. Two months later, X-rays showed both hooves with 12mm of sole. |
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Location: Where the stars at night are big and bright, TX | Shoes and Equi-pak CS is what we use. Not every horse can go barefoot. |
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| My first horse had very thin soles. The only way to keep him sound was with pads and front shoes. Thankfully his back feet were a bit better, but he was still very prone to abscesses in them. |
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Location: Texas | This is what my farrier uses on my thin soled horse. No thrush, no problems.
http://www.vettec.com/
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| My mare has thin soles and walls. About a year or so ago we changed her diet, added rx isoxsuprine, use durasole on the sole, and keratex on the nail holes. So far so good! |
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Location: So. Cali. | My mare struggles with thin soles. She is terrible in pads, all different kinds, as she lands very heavy on her heel, wears right thru the heel on the pads in just a few weeks and crushes her heels in the process. We did an egg bar with the pour in equi-pak pads for over a season, best she was! However with long term use they stop developing a frog as there is not much room allowing one to grow. I dont know what harm that could have done, however I know it isnt natural for her not to have one, so we stopped the pour in pads. I gave her time off, bred her, bringing her back now after a dose of Osphos, currently running sound for the first time in just regular shoes. 
ETA: Make sure the shoer isnt carving out the dead sole and 'cupping' their feet.
Edited by Three*C*Champs 2016-10-21 10:19 AM
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| My horses feet have really grown since i switched to renewgold alfalfa horsepower herbs |
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No Tune in a Bucket
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Location: Texas | FriendswoodKat - 2016-10-21 7:39 AM One of my mares came up lame late this summer. X-rays showed only 5mm of sole in one hoof and 9mm in the other. Normal is 12-15mm. He recommended corrective shoes (we went with heartbar with pads and Equilox) and Farriers Formula Double Strength supplement. Two months later, X-rays showed both hooves with 12mm of sole.
The xray showed 5mm on his bad foot. That was on the one that was xrayed. He has been on a hoof supplement but dang I cannot remember which one. I think I will buy the Farrier's Formula next time. Will they have to put the pad on both front feet? We are going to use the farrier that works out of the vet clinic. He is strictly an equine vet and highly recommends this guy. Crossing my fingers that this takes care of his issue. |
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Location: run2win land | I am dealing with this issue myself. My vet recommended rocker shoes, frog support pads and equipack. I feed a special hoof formula my LKS supplements. My horse showed significant grow. I believe in Rickens and have used it in the past but it will help with tender feet but won't do that intensive work needed to get the sole growing.
Edited by swd 2016-10-22 11:10 PM
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| barefoot is truly the best thing for their feet especially unhealthy feet- rickens is great stuff magic cushion and vet wrap around them for a few days will help, turn out keep them moving on their feet, pea gravel & sand are great to get sole depth look up pete ramey he has a ton of info - I bought his tapes and learned how to properly trim a barefoot to encourage proper growth and function -- I am very glad I did! it takes time you can order a pair ot easy trail boots at least for the front feet they can be turned out in them I have done it for a week or two when I first pulled shoes off and now mine go barefoot at home (my pastures are good ground)- when ihaul anywhere the boots are on until I get into the arena- its kind of a pain sometimes but its better than a miserable horse who has to stand on sore feet all the time cuz one of mine was always sore in shoes |
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Location: Friendswood, Texas | She just got re-shod with the heartbar shoes and pads but the vet says the next reshoe can be back to regular shoes. If you buy the Farriers Formula, make sure it's the double strength (green bag). That's what our vet recommended. We had a real wet first half of the year and my daughter had not been riding much so I pulled shoes. That was the jinx because the rain stopped and ground turned to concrete. We'll keep shoes on her from here on out ??
I also paint hooves (bottoms too) with straight pine tar. My farrier told me about a brand called Bickmore that stays viscous. I get it at Tractor Supply. As farrier puts it, "It seals the God-given oils the hooves produce in, while keeping the outside moisture out".
I hoped this has helped you. Good luck and God bless our horses ?? |
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