Today I shod a QH I have been shoeing for a couple of years now. A mild club with contracted heels and has been for about 26 years. A European Champion too! For reasons unknown to me this one decided to devellop a laminitic foot on the RF. No lameness issues on tyhe other no clear reason why this one would devellop unilateral laminitis.

Ah well, why should we shoers have to explain anything? Here's what I did.


Ronald Aalders

Ronald Aalders wrote:
By the looks of things the episodes have been under the radar for the past few months. looks like every couple months per the hoof capsule. Just an opinion. Good Job.

Ronald Aalders wrote:
Sometimes, most times, it just is what it is....

Good job Ron.

Jaye Perry wrote:
Could be. This horse always was pretty hard to shoe. Good minded but usually sore after shoeing. Perhaps I should have thought a bit harder about that. But that has been the case for years and all in all he did really well. If I left as much foot as possible he didn't seem to have any trouble at all. This is a good reminder that the invention of that German Professor called Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen is pretty helpful at times. A guy by the way that got his school education in the Netherlands, he grew up in the Netherlands. In fact his mother was from Amsterdam. His school education has a typical Dutch aroma around it. He was expelled from school because he refused to tell whom of his classmates was responsible for a (not very flattering) drawing of one of the teachers at that school. Being expelled from school he could not enter Gymnasium, a school required at the time to be accepted for university education. In fact this was the formal reason Röntgen was not accepted by Utrecht University, the very same university that nowadays conducts all kinds of equine locomotion related research sometimes paid for by third -not necessarily independent- parties. Röntgen was accepted at Zürich University, apparently the Swiss unlike the Dutch did understand that Röntgen did not want to rat on his classmates.


Ronald Aalders

p.s. the very first X ray ever showing the bones in the hand of Röntgen's wife and her wedding ring as well.

Ronald Aalders wrote:
Wow Ronald great story. I stole the x-ray for my personal files.

Ronald, just plastic pad or is that that coated Aluminum stuff?

Why did you opt for the welded in piece instead of a heartbar?

SlowShoe wrote:

A heart bar is riskier and offers no extra. A false bar combined with the modern hoofpacking materials is faster like Vettec offers, easier and offer less risks on mistakes like too much pressure or measurement mistakes.


Ronald Aalders

Why you did not use Myron Maclane pad in this case ? May be with silicone?

Brazilian Farrier wrote:

Because I fail to see the advantage of that pad in this case. What do you think would the added mechanics be of that pad?


Ronald Aalders

I think to use this pad to better position the third phalanx allowing a good alignment of all Phalanges, making a good support in the frog without heart bar risk.
Usually, I shoe with heartbar with less pressure but with the silicone between the shoe and the frog, what do you think?
This rotation of the third phalanx can not be from a club foot when this horse was young ?

Mr. Ron, is the false bar fitted with any positive pressure on the frog.



Thanks Chad