Posted by Ray Miller on April 10, 2001 at 21:44:19:
In Reply to: alternate shoes posted by JL Duncan on April 10, 2001 at 12:51:06:
: I have a new client with "navicular". I have not seen the radiographs and the vet says he has done a 'neurectomy(if my spelling is correct)'. The vet recommended to the owner to change farriers. This is where I came in. I called the vet to get a shoeing perscription, but he said just shoe at the pastern angle with a eggbar and pad with a caulk filler. There is not enough heel toget a good angle so I used acrylic to build heels. this worked fine......until the horse was turned out into the 'pasture', a three acre mud hole. I can't seem to keep the shoes on over three weeks. This I might add... is the first horse I have shod with navicular in the Front feet ! Does anyone have advice with previous navicular experience. I would like to get away from the shovel effect of the eggbar in mud. thanks for your help.
If this horse has been nerved and you need to get the heels up just for the correct angle. I would use a standard degree wedge shoe.
If the horse is in a mud hole, give the owners a protocol sheet about special shoes. Then just chagre them for shoeing the horse when it looses it shoes in the mud.
Just my thinking.
Ray Miller