Here's one from today. I really appreciate everyone's critique it has helped me improve a lot lately.
Improving mike, but for me you need to look at your heel fit,nail placement, and fitting your clips at the angle of the wall in the hind pic. and if you can work on not leaveing them big holes when clenching.
I wasn't too proud of my clip fit and I didn't notice them big holes above my clinches until I looked at the pics later. I fit his heels like that because his feet run forward really bad and a couple weeks after I shoe him they'll be about right. I left out the toe and heel nails because nobody could agree which ones to use on the other thread.
You're right, I probably start my gouge too low. You've got a good eye and a lot of experience to know what I'm doing from a picture.
A lateral extension on a horse this week. Vet wanted the horse to have a square heeled extension due to boney changes in its hocks, more aggressive in the right. I know someone will say something about the pin on the inside but it works for that horse.
Looks right tidy Alex. Just curious to the reasoning behind the single pin and why it was placed in the medial branch? Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk 2
I have one set up very similar to that Alex, minus the pin. The horse is 29, and I have shod him that way for 10 years. I also am curious about the pin. Regards
Yeh pinned it inside to provide some grip as flat metal shoes here are rather slippery on the roads. Find double pins stop him from being able to have some loaded twist and causes too much restriction and a jarring affect through his hock. Works with him and a couple other cases similar. Might not be what everybody else would do or say but it works, so as long as the horse is happy so am i
So some traction but not so much to stop the hock from twisting. Makes sense. Thanks Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk 2
That's beautiful work Alex. I'm always a little dubious about large lateral extensions. A horse has some sort of pathology that causes changes in the hock which in turn cause it to walk 'close' behind. It would seem reasonable to assume that it adopts this new posture/movement because it's more comfortable, so we put a lateral extension on to force it back into the position that it is trying to get away from? I don't follow the logic. (no criticism of you Alex, as you say, it was the vet's request)
Gary, I widen the lateral heel because the horse is base narrow behind, weighting the lateral heel more than the medial, and causing it to sink into the ground deeper. This puts extra pressure on the hock. Widening the heel prevents it from sinking into the ground as much. My theory any way. Regards
Yeh I totally agree Gary. The reason in this case is to speed the agitation between the hock joints to speed fusion
