carthorse
12th Aug 2007, 07:45 PM
I'm so fed up and slightly desperate.
Two weekends ago Jim managed to spread a hind shoe in the box & drive the inside quarter clip up the whiteline. I couldn't get the shoe off so YO said she'd have a go later, but when she came out after about half an hour he'd somehow managed to pull off the shoe himself. The hoof was a bit of a mess but we padded & taped the foot up so he could be turned out for a few hours & got the farrier the next day.
A week later he was shod all round by my usual farrier. The hoof was a mess but he rasped it (very rare he needs to really trim much off) & managed to get a shoe on. Then this afternoon, not a week after he was shod, he comes on with all the nail heads on the outside edge of that shoe lying under his sole :eek:. What the hell is this horse doing?! I won't be able to get my usual farrier until Tuesday at the earliest & I really don't want anyone else from the practice trying to do anything as there isn't a lot of hoof there now. I've left him & his companion in tonight, his foot is padded & taped & the YO is going to let me put them out in a paddock on there own with nothing next to them tomorrow so hopefully Jim will graze quietly rather than herd or play.
Do you ever wonder what on earth you do wrong? I get him shod every four weeks by a really good farrier, he's fed well & gets a good general supplement, I use Antibac or Kevin Bacon's hoof dressing depending on the weather & what my farrier thinks needs doing, don't work him on hard ground & yet I still have cotinual problems with his feet! He has slow growth that isn't good quality & has to support a very big & active horse. Possibly the only good thing about his feet are his big, rock solid frogs - just as well since he's so flat footed he walks on them.
I despair, I really really do. I dread to think what my poor farrier is going to say when he tries to redo the shoe because I just can't see what he's going to nail into :(
Two weekends ago Jim managed to spread a hind shoe in the box & drive the inside quarter clip up the whiteline. I couldn't get the shoe off so YO said she'd have a go later, but when she came out after about half an hour he'd somehow managed to pull off the shoe himself. The hoof was a bit of a mess but we padded & taped the foot up so he could be turned out for a few hours & got the farrier the next day.
A week later he was shod all round by my usual farrier. The hoof was a mess but he rasped it (very rare he needs to really trim much off) & managed to get a shoe on. Then this afternoon, not a week after he was shod, he comes on with all the nail heads on the outside edge of that shoe lying under his sole :eek:. What the hell is this horse doing?! I won't be able to get my usual farrier until Tuesday at the earliest & I really don't want anyone else from the practice trying to do anything as there isn't a lot of hoof there now. I've left him & his companion in tonight, his foot is padded & taped & the YO is going to let me put them out in a paddock on there own with nothing next to them tomorrow so hopefully Jim will graze quietly rather than herd or play.
Do you ever wonder what on earth you do wrong? I get him shod every four weeks by a really good farrier, he's fed well & gets a good general supplement, I use Antibac or Kevin Bacon's hoof dressing depending on the weather & what my farrier thinks needs doing, don't work him on hard ground & yet I still have cotinual problems with his feet! He has slow growth that isn't good quality & has to support a very big & active horse. Possibly the only good thing about his feet are his big, rock solid frogs - just as well since he's so flat footed he walks on them.
I despair, I really really do. I dread to think what my poor farrier is going to say when he tries to redo the shoe because I just can't see what he's going to nail into :(