Urgent!!Help needed for foal with Tendon Laxity!

[ponyexpress24]

Hello all,
I'm searching for some advice for my warmblood foal with laxity in his hind tendons.
He is now just 7 weeks and although I would have preferred to have been more pro-active in correcting this issue earlier I was reassured he would correct himself with time. Sadly this hasn't been the case. He has come up slightly since birth but now remains walking on the bulbs of his heels with his toes pointed slighty up. He was never walking on his pasterns. His pasterns are at a normal angle. He is active and mobile and doesn't seem resticted at all by this.
At 3 weeks the farrier trimmed this feet but I believe he only trimmed the toes, which after some research perhaps he should have trimmed the heels as well?
Two days ago my vet applied IBEX shoe extensions with supports to the outside to help straighten his hocks which are very very mildly bent in. He did a wonderful job and on completion the foal stood up and we admired the work as we were looking at now perfectly aligned legs and hooves standing up.
All was well. The mare and foal were in a smallish paddock as I don't have a yard other than the stables and it was just too hot to lock them up. Over 104 degrees F (+40C) (oh we are in Perth Western Australia!) needless to say the ground heats up and well the extensions on the IBEX shoes melted and curled up around the bulb of the heals, rendering them useless!!!!!!! Very Very disappointing :(
We are now aiming to express post some Dalric shoes from the states as we currently can't find any in Perth.
I guess my question is (or questions!)
Has anyone had this trouble before?
Would the Dalric shoes be any stronger?
Any tips on how to get the Super Fast glue off?
Does anyone have an out of the box magical idea to strengthen the extensions? Metal extensions?
Any other recommendations?

Many thanks

Tania

[blinddogfarrier]

if the dalrics don't work, I can't imagine why they wouldn't, have your farrier build little aluminum shoes and glue them on with equilox or simmilar product. The vettec should rasp or sand off easily enough. I think that this package will hold up to the heat just fine.

[ponyexpress24]

G'day :D

I guess we were hoping just to get it right the first time ( well the second time ) in a perfect word Ha Ha!
Perhaps there is some way to incorporate the aluminium shoes (extensions) with the dalrics? to make the extensions stronger?
I'm concerned that more hot weather (which is likely) will also melt the Dalrics

Cheers Tania

[blinddogfarrier]

here in Idaho USA we would be concerned with the the dalrics becoming frost bitten right now. Warmer weather would be nice, but not Dalric melting temps.

I have gone to using a lot of Ibex cuffs with most of the babies I work on. In the past though I was so dissatisfied with how the dalrics worked (could have been a lack of experience at the time) that I started just building extensions out of 1"x1/4" Aluminum flatbar and applying with Equilox. Kind of stole the idea from Doug ? at Kentucky Blacksmith. Anyway, I really liked the fact that I could design a shoe specifically for the individual and then use the Equilox with fiberglass strips to attach and essentially build a better base of support for the foal.

[ponyexpress24]

Would be happy to swap with you anytime as it's around 40C again today.
Do you happen to have any photos?

[reillyshoe]

You could always glue a piece of cut out 1/16" aluminum directly to the bottom of the foot. If your vet doesn't know how, you could always ask your farrier.

[calshoer]

For glue on foal extensions you can really innovate, it doesn't have to be fancy or expensive. Over the years I have used dalric shoes, PVC pipe cut and bent from the pipe and shaped with a heat gun, aliuminum plates cut out of flat stock (with a little bent up toe clip to help hold it in place on the front) , and even 3/8" thick plywood.(the usual choice for the less affluent rural customers around here) And plywood holds the glue well .
And on a side note, be SURE the farrier is trimming the HEELS back! If you dont, the foot wants to fall backward over the rolled under heels even more, and adding the heel extension to prevent that will just crush them faster. Patty