Posted by Rick Burten on November 13, 2000 at 07:06:22:
In Reply to: Re: how to shoe? posted by Allen Carpenter on October 24, 2000 at 21:51:12:
: : ive just started to shoe horses i went to school
: : but we never really touched to much on shoeing this kind of thing this horse im going to do has now got a heartbar shoe on im am told by my farrier friends that i could instead of the shoe and worring about getting the prssure just right i could use a pad and normal shoe the pad is nprmal with a frog wedge to help the pressure is this a good choice
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: You are posting on the navicular BB so assume that the problem is he is navicular. Is that correct????? If so i would not want a heartbar or that type of pad. I would start with the GE-n shoe made by GE. You need to tell us what the problem is before we can really help you much.
: Is he navicular or does he have laminitis or what??????? Each will need to be shod different.
: Give us more info.
: Allen
At your current level of skill, knowledge and experience, you have no business working on this horse. I would suggest that you tell the client this, and offer to find someone with the requisite abilities. You could ask one of the other farriers of your aquaintance to come and work with you on this case, so that you can begin to learn correctly and efficiently how to deal with horses with this problem. In any event, you are in over your head, and would be wise to back away from the situation, for the benefit of all concerned.
Rick