Icelandics

[Dave Whitaker]

Anyone with any experiance/history with trimming/shoeing Icelandics? I recently picked up a client with some and they seemed to be shod pretty straight forward. Her only issue at the moment is a mare that is interfering behind, but looking at her, she is dumped m/l to the outside, (high inside), and one rear shoe is fit way too full on the inside heel branch.

[Dave Whitaker]

SOMEBODY in here must have Icelandic experiance, no?

[calshoer]

Basically a hoof is a hoof, and the hoof itself will tell you how to trim the individual.
If trimming or shoeing to a breed specification pre-dictates hoof angles ,toe lengths etc it can really screw uo the individual animal who's feet may not naturally fall into the pre-dictated parameters. It's a foot.
Just trim it like you do any foot.....as an individual. . . Patty

[the swede]

Hi!
I have much experience of shoeing icelandics!

Usually the owners want them shod with low heels/long toe (toeweigths)
because then they maybe can use all five gaits! even with a bad rider.

but my advice is, Trim/ shoe them like calshoer says, as an individual
In balance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good luck
sigge

[Ronald Aalders]

Hi,

A horse may be a horse, but what a trainer wants from a horse make a lot of difference I would think!!

Years ago I shod a few icelandics here in Holland. They were competing and doing pretty good. The thing is those ponies are great if they're at this speed thing they have (I forgot what they called it). For anyone doing standardbreds like I was doing at the time, this is more than 15 years ago, shoeing icelandics looks like real fun.

However because of rules set up by either the icelandic stud book or other commission that has a say, icelandics can only be shod with regular shoes, not to thick and not to thin. I don't know if those rules apply world wide, but because of these rules I quit shoeing them. It's no fun at all if you can not try what works the best on some of them.


Ronald Aalders