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Please could someone offer me some advice. I have a horse that has been recently diagnosed with Navicular Disease. He has been prescribed Navilox powder and it has been recommended by my vet that he be fitted with Egg Bar shoes. Could anyone tell me how much I should expect to pay for these shoes? I usually pay £60 for a normal set of shoes. My horse is a 17.2hh warmblood. Thankyou for any comments!!
 
Naw sorry to hear your horse has been diagnosed with Navicular.
Think it all depends as I would have paid around £60 to have egg bar shoes on my horse anyway.
So if you are already paying around that figure then i would expect you to be paying a further £20 on top.
However, egg bars will only do the job for so long im affraid. They eventually end up bruising the frog.
My old chap has had Navicular for the past 10 years. He went onto egg bars and these were fine for 4 years plus Navilox until everything was settled.
Unfortunatly after 4 years I had a lame horse again but my new vet prescribed trying aluminum shoes (racing plates) these are so light and lessen teh concussion - my horse has stayed sound ever since.
He is now 26 and riddled wtih arthritus so is lame - however his navicular is stable
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I also used a good hoof supplement to keep the hoof growing and pumping the blood around the hoof.

Good luck
 
I paid £80 for a pair plus the extra for normal hinds. They were covered on insurance. Mine were for navicular as well.
 
Thanks for the replies. Im somewhat upset now as I had his first set of egg bar shoes fitted just before christmas and paid £120 for them!!! My friend has a different farrier and he said he would charge £85 for them - a price that I thought was fair. I don't know if my farrier has charged me this as I am going through the insurance - I have been with this farrier for a number of years so Im a little dissapointed if this is the case as it will be me paying for the shoes when the insurance cant. I dont know what to do now - I want the best for my horse but feel like I have been taken for a bit of a 'mug' so to speak. My horse is due for his next shoeing in the next few weeks - As i haven't recieved the difference in cost through from my insurance from the last set of shoes it means I have to fork out another £120 - which I must say I really cant afford to and dont particularly want to as now I know the ball park figure for these shoes. The other problem is of course I have built up what I thought was a friendship with my farrier - although this has now been strained - I dont want to upset him but why has he charged me so much ?? Any help/advice on what I should do??
 
Hi,
I am paying an extra £30 on top of normal shoeing charges for eggbars.
As a point of interest my horse has recently be diagnosed with Navicular, my vet spoke to colleagues of his about the most up to date treatments available and apparently navilox is now not the drug of choice in most instances. It is unlikely to do your horse any harm to have this but it is not clear how much benefit your horse could get.
It would be worth asking your vet if your horse may be a suitable candidate for tildren.
 
Was your horse insured whilst he was diagonosed? If so you should be able to claim for the eggbars for a certain amount of time, you pay the normal shoeing cost and the insurance pays the rest? Worth looking into maybe?
 
My mare was diagnosed with Navicular and fitted with Egg bars which were also around the £80 mark, however she continuously ripped them off so I spoke at length to farrier who then fitted Natural balance shoes, I was able to ride her as normal and she didn't pull them off.
I got thoroughly sick of retracing my route to find the egg bar sitting all lonesome, she never actually felt like she ripped them off, hated them!
 
I have known my farrier for 12 years. He has fitted egg bar front shoes to one of my laminitics in the past and more recently to a rescue with navicular for £20. Think I must be very lucky reading all the above.
 
My mare was diagnosed with navicular about 4 years agon and had egg bar shoes but these did nothing for her. She is infact now wearing normal shoes and on no supplements. She is infact going better than ever!!
 
Gosh that is steep!!!! I know they charge more when it's being done through the vet, but I wouldn't have expected your own farrier to charge that much.

My horse has rolled toes front and back, heel support and heel extensions, road nails on top as well. Her shoes are £60 and take him ages to make. I'm sure he told me once that Eggbars were £65, but that's eggbars in front and including the normal shoes behind.
 
sorry to hear about that.
We have just recently stopped having eggbar shoes for Oscar, as he has Sidebones, and needed them for the growing/calcification progress. they were about £65 - £70 for front feet... but normal behinds.
Good Luck x
 
My pony had navicular for about twelve years. He had all the treatment and was fitted with eggbar shoes but he was always pulling them off. His feet ended up in worse shape than before! My blacksmith tried heel wedges that lift the heel up off the floor and they were fantastic. He never needed any more Navilox and was more or less sound for eleven years off them.
 
hi there , firstly you can have the old set put back on [re set] they would fit even better. but if you knew the whole truth you would never let a heart bar shoe near you,r horse. they are the worst thing you could do to horse with navicular problems, they are cruel. firstly they completly resrtrict hoof movement, they press on the frog and dig,cushion,restricting blood flow, and will kill the frog tissue,as when he walks trots etc his heels cant spread, the bone column comes down pressing on the frog and causing point loading. the concussion caused by a heart bar shoe is likely to cause navicular. these shoes are recomended and fitted by people who have run out of ideas and are not up to speed with new methods. you must find out if you,r horse has navic syndrome or navic desease. desease is very bad and means navic bone is unhealthy ie crumbling,wearing away...no cure. navic syndrome is deep pain in that area with no obvious bone changes,usually caused by working with wrongly shaped feet, out of balance, landing toe first, etc. a period without shoes and his feet properly balanced will leave him the most comfortable he,s been in a long time. a week or so on danalon, pain relief,anti inflams will help with his recovery. heart bar shoes have what is known as the anaesthetic effect, they grab the foot in a steel grip inhibiting any movement and restricting blood flow.the hoof will then deteriorate to such an extent that only heart bars will hold it together in it,s unhealthy state, and so the cycle goes on. good luck
 
My husband is a farrier and he charges about £30 extra on top of normal price. He suggests that you try graduated shoes or heel wedges (fitted with rolled toed shoes) as they will relieve the pressure of the deep flexor tendon on the navicular bone, hope this helps, also note he would not charge extra just because the horse was insured, so maybe your farrier wouldn't either. £120 is not excessive especially if your farrier spent time and care balancing the feet and fitting the shoes. How much did your vet charge you to diagonse! You didn't say if your horse was now going ok on the shoes I hope he, just to cheer you up the early symptoms of navicular syndrome are reveresible. Horses with low heels and long toes are prone to navicular particuarly if the rest of the conformation is upright.

Just a quick note about heart-bars, which I know you didn't suggest! They are a very useful shoe in the right circumstances and you should not be put off them, there main use is in the treatment of laminitus and not for navicular.
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ITS ME AGAIN, I AM SORRY I TALKED ABOUT HEART BAR,WHEN YOU SAID EGG BAR, SO JUST CLARIFY, ONE IS AS BAD AS THE OTHER. ALSO WHEN FITTING THE ENTIRE SOLAR FOOT IS RASPED FLAT WITH THE SOLE ,THIS IS VERY LOW AND CAN PUT STRESS ON THE D D F TENDON. A LITTLE HEEL IS BEST LEFT ON IN A CASE LIKE THIS, IE A FRACTION ABOVE THE SOLE AT TOE AND QUARTERS,RISING TO A GOOD SOUND HEEL.THE HOOF ANGLE AT THE FRONT CAN BE CONSIDERED VERY LOW AT 45DG AND V HIGH AT 60 SO 50 SOMETHING IS NICE. BUT GO BY THE SOLE
 
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