I'm guessing no-one on here uses them or it would probably have been mentioned already, but if anyone does have any experience/opinions I'd be interested to know.
A visiting professional yesterday told me about her horse, a TB with bad feet who had had so many lameness issues he was on the verge of being pts. The farrier then took him on a journey of alternative shoeing, they tried glue-ons and different makes of composite and have finally settled on Duplo. She showed me before and after videos with the Duplo shoes and the change in the shape of his feet is amazing, he previously had very little heel and his feet were small and poor looking, now he has good heels and a nice wide base. I wondered whether they could help with Raf's 'odd' foot, which is very underrun at the heel and grows out to the side. Not sure though, as both YO and RI say the problem is coming from the fetlock joint, not the foot itself.
I'll obviously discuss with my farrier but he may well talk me out of it. And I know how evangelical people can be about new things they have tried that are helping with their particular problem, so I'm not getting carried away with the idea, but I reckon it's worth thinking about.
A visiting professional yesterday told me about her horse, a TB with bad feet who had had so many lameness issues he was on the verge of being pts. The farrier then took him on a journey of alternative shoeing, they tried glue-ons and different makes of composite and have finally settled on Duplo. She showed me before and after videos with the Duplo shoes and the change in the shape of his feet is amazing, he previously had very little heel and his feet were small and poor looking, now he has good heels and a nice wide base. I wondered whether they could help with Raf's 'odd' foot, which is very underrun at the heel and grows out to the side. Not sure though, as both YO and RI say the problem is coming from the fetlock joint, not the foot itself.
I'll obviously discuss with my farrier but he may well talk me out of it. And I know how evangelical people can be about new things they have tried that are helping with their particular problem, so I'm not getting carried away with the idea, but I reckon it's worth thinking about.