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Please critique my gelding's shoe job. Your likes dislikes everything.
Also any advice to help his awfully thrushy feet. PS- Yes I'm posting under an alias because I've been here for years and I'm ashamed of his feet :-(
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Location: Alabama | This cracked me up!! LOL
No pics yet...
As far as thrush, this is the best treatment ever IMO!
https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=30e079bc-7b6a-11d5-a...
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I can't get it to resize :-(
ETA: I've currently been using tomorrow to no results stupid damp weather
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| Whiteboy - 2017-01-27 4:40 PM
You are clever I will give you that. Â I thought it was BHUSA based on the CAPS.Â
Clever like a fox!
Info: This is week 4 after being shod. He grows faster and a ton more heel on his right front. BUT his left front is almost a whole size bigger and always has been no farrier caused it he was that way from birth.
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Location: Texas | His right hoof is longer than the left and they're both a different angles. His right heel is contracted and it looks like his left heel is underslung. |
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Location: Dubuque,IA | Ditto to the above and he also has no distinct bar and what he does have is overgrown. and laying ocer. Horrible shoe job. Horses often have two diferent size feet but that doesn't mean the angles etc need to be different |
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| BarrelRacing4Christ - 2017-01-27 5:31 PM
His right hoof is longer than the left and they're both a different angles. His right heel is contracted and it looks like his left heel is underslung.
See the feet grow two different sizes... like visibly look like two different feet
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| raisinrox - 2017-01-27 5:43 PM
Ditto to the above and he also has no distinct bar and what he does have is overgrown. and laying ocer. Horrible shoe job. Horses often have two diferent size feet but that doesn't mean the angles etc need to be different
These are my assessments as well. BUT I'm going to post when he is reset next we have been resetting every 5 because of the growth.
Here is the argument. His angles no joke will be the same when he is reset. But at about 1 1/2 weeks you can visibly notice the difference in his feet. I'm at a loss really as what to do about this....
Has anyone ever had this one foot grow and the other one just doesn't problem?
I'm not a nut. BUT this is why i'm posting under an alias lol
One more thing to add this farrier is nationally known and no slouches on his client list nor in his price tag ouch....
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | runfastturnsmooth - 2017-01-27 5:50 PM raisinrox - 2017-01-27 5:43 PM Ditto to the above and he also has no distinct bar and what he does have is overgrown. and laying ocer. Horrible shoe job. Horses often have two diferent size feet but that doesn't mean the angles etc need to be different These are my assessments as well. BUT I'm going to post when he is reset next we have been resetting every 5 because of the growth. Here is the argument. His angles no joke will be the same when he is reset. But at about 1 1/2 weeks you can visibly notice the difference in his feet. I'm at a loss really as what to do about this.... Has anyone ever had this one foot grow and the other one just doesn't problem? I'm not a nut. BUT this is why i'm posting under an alias lol One more thing to add this farrier is nationally known and no slouches on his client list nor in his price tag ouch....
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| Southtxponygirl - 2017-01-27 6:04 PM
runfastturnsmooth - 2017-01-27 5:50 PM raisinrox - 2017-01-27 5:43 PM Ditto to the above and he also has no distinct bar and what he does have is overgrown. and laying ocer. Horrible shoe job. Horses often have two diferent size feet but that doesn't mean the angles etc need to be different These are my assessments as well. BUT I'm going to post when he is reset next we have been resetting every 5 because of the growth. Here is the argument. His angles no joke will be the same when he is reset. But at about 1 1/2 weeks you can visibly notice the difference in his feet. I'm at a loss really as what to do about this.... Has anyone ever had this one foot grow and the other one just doesn't problem? I'm not a nut. BUT this is why i'm posting under an alias lol One more thing to add this farrier is nationally known and no slouches on his client list nor in his price tag ouch....
That I'm crazy this my horse is crazy and grows crazy foot on one side.
I've actually went through 3 farriers on this horse for this reason in the past 2 years.
So I called in the fancy "special guy" highly recommended by Dr. Meeker outta NC and he does clinics everywhere.
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| jake16 - 2017-01-27 6:21 PM
you already have 198 viewsÂ
Well someone gotta do something about these angles!
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| One farrier actually recommended wedges to crush the heel and make it match the other one so it would be underslung too.
I said are you ready for this?!?!
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Location: Arizona | I have a couple horses that grow different looking front feet, & I have to trim them frequently to keep them balanced. There are several common reasons this happens. One, the horse could have a structural difference between each leg; i.e. one leg could actually be shorter than the other, which can cause major differences in hoof growth (more common than people realize). Two, there could be a lameness issue that is causing the horse to bear more or less weight on one leg or another, or land differently (toe first vs heel first), which will also cause changes in hoof growth. It might not be anything obvious, but a little thing that just slightly changes the way they move, causing one side of the body to work harder than the other. Even tighter muscles or tendons on one side can cause it. The last reason kind of goes hand in hand with the second reason, but more subtle. Some horses, like some people, have terrible posture. You look at them lounging in the pen and they will have their backs hollowed & certain legs cocked or pointed in rest. Some do so because of an ache or pain, and others just develop a habit of pointing one leg more than the other. Usually the leg they point the most will have the longer toe & more underslung heel. The foot bearing the most weight will grow more upright. This isn't as much of an issue with working horses, or horses turned out on the range where they are forced to regularly move on uneven terrain. The posture issue is more a byproduct of a sedentary lifestyle in a pen. |
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Location: OH. IO | runfastturnsmooth - 2017-01-27 7:43 PM
One farrier actually recommended wedges to crush the heel and make it match the other one so it would be underslung too.
I said are you ready for this?!?!
YOU'RE FIRED!
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| Whinny19 - 2017-01-27 6:55 PM
I have a couple horses that grow different looking front feet, & I have to trim them frequently to keep them balanced. There are several common reasons this happens. One, the horse could have a structural difference between each leg; i.e. one leg could actually be shorter than the other, which can cause major differences in hoof growth (more common than people realize). Two, there could be a lameness issue that is causing the horse to bear more or less weight on one leg or another, or land differently (toe first vs heel first), which will also cause changes in hoof growth. It might not be anything obvious, but a little thing that just slightly changes the way they move, causing one side of the body to work harder than the other. Even tighter muscles or tendons on one side can cause it. The last reason kind of goes hand in hand with the second reason, but more subtle. Some horses, like some people, have terrible posture. You look at them lounging in the pen and they will have their backs hollowed & certain legs cocked or pointed in rest. Some do so because of an ache or pain, and others just develop a habit of pointing one leg more than the other. Usually the leg they point the most will have the longer toe & more underslung heel. The foot bearing the most weight will grow more upright. This isn't as much of an issue with working horses, or horses turned out on the range where they are forced to regularly move on uneven terrain. The posture issue is more a byproduct of a sedentary lifestyle in a pen.
So your thinking barefoot? Oh gawd my barefoot hippie and this is hilarious because of the post LIBERAL friend is going to love that the recommendations I got are in favor of her barefoot hippie views 
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Location: Arizona | LOL! The barefoot thing is totally up to you. Mine are all barefoot right now, though I wouldn't hesitate to put shoes on one that needed it. I come from a family of farriers, so definitely not anti-iron. My couple that want to grow different front feet do better with frequent touch ups though (I do a light rasp job every 2 weeks or so) to keep the heel & toe in check on each hoof, and there is just no feasible way to touch up that often with shoeing. When I touch up frequently the contracted heel starts to spread out & the runaway toe comes back where it should, and as long as the horse is moving well eventually the feet balance out. If I let them go longer between trims, the runaway toe develops a flare & the runaway heel takes away my frog pressure, and I'm right back where I started again. |
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Location: Arkansas | runfastturnsmooth - 2017-01-27 6:43 PM
One farrier actually recommended wedges to crush the heel and make it match the other one so it would be underslung too.
I said are you ready for this?!?!
YOU'RE FIRED!
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Location: Washington | How about getting some coppertox and soaking some cotton balls and stuff them into the clef of the frog daily. I bet those heels would eventually even up/out.
Shocked your shoer didn't explain the importance of killing off the thrush.
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