Rick, one of the guys is 12yrs and 14.2 and has some "scaring" of his sesmoids and will go lame at three day show in regular shoes. I trim him up to 25 deg and then square the toe on a Triumph aluminum and rocker the toe. He then stays sound for about 5 weeks. Then he goes off. The other guy is straight forward apart from straight walls in the quarters. 15 year old 15 hand Reiner as sound as the day he was born. Despite his tiny feet
Rick there is no substitute for conformation. If its buckkneed, cow hocked etcyour allways going to be working to keep em sound. My three year old futurity horse is bench knee slightly and threw a splint when first put into training. He will always require good shoeing.
Hey Kim I actually had trouble with the GE clinchers when I was apprenticing. I was dragging all my clinches and my mentor made me stop using it. I had no problem with a cheaper less aggressive model. Mentor was much happier. Now that clinching is more of a non-issue I actually really like the GE and use it exclusively so if you find you continue to drag clinches with the curved jaw clinchers make sure you put them aside and try them again later because chances are as you develop more finesse you will like them a lot.
All the cutters around here have 000 to 00 feet and stand barely 14.2, which makes them a Quarter horse and not a pony!!??? Talk about hock problems....(((
Coffin joint injections scare me... Especially done in a dusty dirty barn. A horse can shake his head at the wrong time and you have a dead horse.
Hi John, for what purpose were they applied. Its a little early for hunters to start wearing them? Nice work too by the way!
That is why they have sedation. That's way they have sanitation protocols. Really, one cannot shoe "all" issues out of a horse. We must have another "PROBIE " with a God complex here.
Very Nice John. I miss those days..... a couple Morgans in the "two in hand for the roads and track portions of USEF qualifying....." Chester and Lester....almost a matched pair....
No, of course we can't. But there are other options available. I shoe for a vet who has seen horses die from a shake of the mane. He does them only on occasion, with adequate tranq, scrupulous sterilization of the injection site, mane braided and covered, and no one breathes while the procedure is being done. He is one of the best, works on top level horses of all disciplines, and does not take joint injections lightly.
