Do you find all your horses' lost shoes in the field?

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Sadly, I find looking for lost shoes very very hard, and in years of ownership, and years of 'the odd missing shoe' can count on one hand how many i have found. Track record = beyond rubbish.

After seeing this photo just now, (not mine, attention of FB) I'll have to employ someone with eyes if ever a lost shoe needs to be found.

Hope the horse recovered fully, looks mighty ouchie.
 
Jesus, glad I found my girl's lost shoe this week! I only usually look for them because I like to keep them (not that she loses them often) but will hunt for them every time after seeing this!
 
My problem with finding lost shoes if I can't find it, after scouring every inch of the paddock, what am I supposed to do?
I know we have lost 3 shoes in the field (in 7 years) but only one has ever turned up - months later. Hopefully if I can't find them nor will my ponies.
Don't know the details of the photo, but was it the horse's own hind shoe? It could possibly have trodden on it, moved it then got it caught on other foot. Can't tell from photo if horse wearing shoes on both feet?
 
I always look and have always found. Lost one the other day and searched the field for an hour without finding it, however found someone elses, then found mine the next day!

I've lost and found three over over the years, not yet failed. Even if unsuccessful after a systematic search at least I'd have a clear conscience that I'd tried my best.
 
Ive spent an hour today and a few the other day looking for dees cast shoe. I can see in the field where she galloped with the shoe and then a hoof print with an unshod hoof...but no shoe

personally i think shes eaten it....or there is a huge magpie in kent!
 
Trying to work out how on earth the horse in that picture did that? Is it not a case of the horse standing in itself and the shoe (which presumably was loose) coming off? Otherwise how on earth woud it gte in to that position especially as the ends if shies are rounded?

God knows how many shoes have been lost on our fields over the years - we rarely find them. My youngster lost one of his first ever 2 shoes (just shod him in front) after only having them on 2 weeks. God knows where it is - I have a good idea as there is a marshy area he likes to stand in. Chances are I will never find it and it will be under layers of mud by now.
 
HardySoul1 said:
There don't appear to be any nails in the cast shoe - why not?
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They are most probably sheared off - I reckon that's the head of one protruding from near the toeclip.

Yes, metal detector a must - when our field shelter took off in the 1987 storm I dismantled it very carefully and scanned the area meticulously and recovered about 100 shoes and half a barrow of miscellaneous metalwork! Some had been in the ground for two centuries at least; however; beyond your average hunt as I have a digger as well!
 
No problem!
I just check the fences.... my horse pulls them off on the fences when he gets sick of them!
any one else got a horse that does this?
 
Oh that is nasty, I do search and search but have had to give up on one (found almost a year later!) I worry about a simple puncher wound in the sole from standing on the clenches or a left in nail.

I've found shoes from a very big horse that look very old - I suspect from when they were working the land (it was arrable for 20+ years before we bought it)
 
I seen this pic on FB & tbh find it upsetting as this is what happened to my TB. However, he didnt pick up a cast shoe, he actually managed to pull off a front shoe (despite wearing over reach boots) and it went into his hind hoof like a pair of pincers, entering the pedal bone & coffin joint.
What made it even sadder was this horse had just been on 3 months box rest following treatment for a damaged cruciate ligament and was now on 3 months field rest.
We had been through so much with him and after discussion with the 2 vets treating him he was pts in the field.
Broke mine & my daughter's hearts xx
 
Sadly no, never. Apart from the one time it flew off in front on me as he came bucking past! We have 30-40 acres and god only knows how long horses have been kept on the farm (30+ years?!). I have found one or two shoes that had obviously belonged to horses no longer around though! I would be distraught if this happened to mine, wonder if I can persuade the farmer to join me with a metal detector? We'd have to avoid the horsey graveyard though...
 
I usually find them poo picking and failing that, if I ride in the field I keep my eyes peeled. The area I actually ride in would be checked a hundred times over but shoes can fly off quite some distance!
 
Ouch.

yes I do find them as I do not give up until I've found the bleddy thing - too tight to pay for a new one :o
 
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