Everyday Shoeing

Travis, this shoe may be useful for those type of feet:

http://glushu.com/

How's the impression material under the pour in keeping them from getting sore? Its still pressure against the foot.

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I told him to develop that shoe with an ali heart bar, that will put your mate out of business!

.. its the far tips that get real hard and i feel set up to hard...if the pour in is thick it seems to stay pretty soft..but where it fills in the small areas like around the frog it get hard..many times i have pulled out pour ins and then trim down each side of frong and it show red bruising. ..the impression material does not set up near as hard so I started using it..and maybe only 1 out 20 may have issues that im talking about but I rather be active than reactive... vet tec makes a extra soft now ..it has a pink lable ..my guess is they come out with the extra soft due to this problem on thin foot horses..

I can see the differences in firmness being an issue for some, just haven't experienced it personally.

Have heard that the equipak soft is only good under a pad. A buddy used it with just the mesh and came back 6 weeks later to just a shoe with mesh. . .Tabb told him after that it was meant to be used under a pad

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What has anyone had success with on a horse with a bad knee that it doesn't want to bear weight on?

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What was the reason for using that particular shoe?
just asking.

Vets wanted a lateral support on, she's a but carpal varus and hasn't wanted to bear weight on it. No idea how long she's been like this.

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Josh, I kept this guy going for 8 years till they finally put him down. An aluminum wedged eggbar for the first two years, then barefoot. The vet suggested lyme disease might have been the cause. He got a little worse every year.
Regards

Yeah once they stop bearing weight that muscle atrophies and causes the leg to
Bend. . .I think i might have taken a bit much heel off.
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I kinda turned this foot into a club - that's how he was most comfortable, without the wedges. They still rode him in the wedges for a couple years, light trail rides. Then he got "retired" for another horse, but they kept him around because he was such as nice guy. He always ran the "herd" of three, right up until he died.

Regards

Josh ..rick..what causes this..is it an injury ..age or other

Injury, neglected conformation and hard use

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Travis,
I think the horse was born that way, and things progressed as he got older. The last vet to see him suggested Lyme disease.

Regards

How would lyme disease cause that?

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Where's Linda she could tell you!!!

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ONE FROM TODAY NEW HORSE
MADE A PAIR OF C/W ON SITE
FROM 3/4x7/16 HORSE HAS A VERY ROUND
HIND FOOT