I need to bring a horse that likes the sigfoos moorison shoe thru the winter months and was seeking info on adding a snoball pad. These shoes without the pad collect snoballs like crazy. It can be hard keeping equithane in them and I have no idea how to attach gutter guard to a sigafoos glue on. Dave whitiker posted this a while back on a forum and I was thinking to try his process but also soliciting other ideas as well. "I have even cut anti snowball pads just a bit larger than the inside of the shoe and "flexed" it into place just under the inside rim once the shoe is on the foot, tacking it in with Superfast from the ground surface side. This saves your butt when you have a horse you want to put in Sigafoo's in the Winter and you know the owner is gonna put 'em out." Dave
Hey George.... watch what that Whitaker guy says.... Anyway..... I have successfully put mesh on a Sigafoo a few times with 3M spray adhesive that they use for automotive headliners... I get it at NAPA stores... it's how I hold it in place on regular shoes too. I have tried to put sno rim pads on them the same way but that failed miserably...they just pulled out.... The full snopads do stay in the Sigafoos, installed like I posted above..... can't believe we are heading into another Winter already.... West Palm Beach is looking pretty good........... Dave
I've used a thin layer of Sole Guard, the last few winters, on hunt horses wearing sigafoose shoes. no mesh.
It's worked well on horses that fox hunted twice weekly all winter long (Nov 15th to Mar 30th). they were shod on a 6 week schedule, no complaints. I use a heat gun to make sure the whole hooves are DRY for the glue& soleguard. I tried the equipak but after 4 weeks it got too hard and these TBs don't like that at all; hasn't been a problem with the sole guard.
