Short Shod with a Twist

[Jaye Perry]

Here is a couple of pics of a foot i saw yesterday. I was at a barn to shoe another but was asked to replace a shoe. I picked up this foot to try match the shoe lost but......................

I just nailed up a Kerkaert and left, geez...

[Jaye Perry]

Here is the close-up...

[Skinfaxi]

Ummm....a sorry attempt to remedy contracted heels??

[mmhorseshoeing]

Jay maybe they thought (or not) that the turned in heels into the bars might speed up the development of corns. Or they might have been trying to get rid of this client. :(

[brian robertson]

Pretty tough to pull that off in the fence!

[Jaye Perry]

Pretty tough to pull that off in the fence!The other one was gone!!! I couldn't believe he could get one off either, but it ain't my problem. I tacked on the lost one as a favor and ran away as fast as i could.:eek:

[Jaye Perry]

Jay maybe they thought (or not) that the turned in heels into the bars might speed up the development of corns. Or they might have been trying to get rid of this client. :(Probably the latter. He was a bastord to nail on the lost shoe.:mad:

[Ronald Aalders]

Come to Europe Jaye. You get to see that a lot by the socalled expert reining horse shoers around here :rolleyes:

See this one? You like the caudal support as much as I do?



Ronald Aalders

[smitty88]

Grant Moon said to me one day
there is good farriers and there are bad farriers

in every country in the world
and i think he has been in them all

[Dave Purves]

Thanks for tacking that shoe on for me Jaye I really appreciate it. ;)

Dave

[smitty88]

Thanks for tacking that shoe on for me Jaye I really appreciate it. ;)

Dave
dave you need more curl on them heels

[Bill Adams]

Jaye,
The thing that puzzles me about that shoeing is that there was thought and reasoning put into it, and a fair amount of skill applied to acomplish it.
Contracted heels were mentioned, and I've seen wider that those, but was that a problem here?
What do you think they were after.
Bill

[John Emsley]

Jaye, I know that you were in a position of looking like the incompetent, but wouldn't the heel be supported better if you moved the shoe back under the P3 where it should be? A no win situation probably. :cool: I know I'm old and set in my ways, but if I can't do what I know to be right, no favor is done for anyone. An ignorant horse doesn't exactly inspire any of us to do our best work, does it. :eek:

[Rick Burten]

I vaguely remember running across an old farrier text years ago that described this shoe to help counteract/prevent contracted heels. IIRC it was supposed to be a better alternative than the Chadwick heel spring. Never saw it applied before now.

[Phil Armitage]

Looking at that shoeing job brings some interesting thoughts. The hoof pastern axis is probably great and the horse is sound. The heels look high and the they also look contracted, probably landing toe first. Shoe looks like it is parimeter fit. This horse is probably sound for now, DDFT and Navicular bone is happy. So what is the problem? Geesh the H/P is good, and he didnt wack off the heels and dub the toe, like the rest of balance happy farriers.

I am quessing this horse looses a shoe once and awhile, probably annoys the owner/rider. Farrier thinks, I will keep that shoe on and never gives it a thought as to why the horse might be looseing the shoe.

I would probably trim the heels down and try to gain at least 50/50 ratio by setting the shoe back, then have to add wedge pad and the horse would go lame for whatever reason. Then be told the heels are low toe is long and you made my horse lame. :)

Is the horse sound? Will the horse stay sound? Would you shoe a horse like this? I wouldnt.

Just some thoughts and babbleing.

[Skinfaxi]

Bill: Jaye,
The thing that puzzles me about that shoeing is that there was thought and reasoning put into it, and a fair amount of skill applied to acomplish it.
Contracted heels were mentioned, and I've seen wider that those, but was that a problem here?

Rick: I vaguely remember running across an old farrier text years ago that described this shoe to help counteract/prevent contracted heels.

No way of knowing how long they have been shoeing that way. Perhaps it WAS working....looks uncomfortable to me though.

Sarah