Finding Lost Shoes?!?

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My horse seems to be determined to get me to take out a second mortgage. Despite having extra large over reach boots on all four feet he still manages to loose them on a regular basis in the field. Despite scouring the field I have yet to find the last two he has lost and find myself contemplating eating bread and water for the next two weeks to pay for yet another replacement.

Being totally fed up with scouring the field I am contemplating buying a metal detector to help me find the missing shoes. Does anyone else use a metal detector to find missing shoes? Do they work and what kind of range do they have?

Anyone have any other tips for finding shoes? My horses are a dark heart bar wedge shoe so particularly difficult to find!
 
I find they show up when they feel like it!!

My mare lost both fronts once with bright luminous green luwex pads attached to them - could i find them, never, and these things were practically glow in the dark luminous!!
 
They go to the lost shoes place and when you find it if you could return all the ones of my boys that you find too!!!
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As odd as it sounds, quite a few times I have found shoes in the field when I've not actually been looking for them! Several times I've almost trod on them! So I think the trick is, is not to spend hours looking for them, just go about your normal thing, and they will turn up when you least expect it!!!!
 
definatly the shoe fairy!

Does that mean if the horse loses them and we do find them ( ok very unusual ) if we put them under a pillow we will be rewarded in gold!

Or is the gold a happier farrier
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Agree to with naytarpy except they turn up when its too late and they are more rust than metal!
 
There's nothing more satisfying than finding a shoe in a huge muddy field and knowing you've saved yourself a tenner! Unfortunately the only horse I have atm is barefoot so this form of entertainment is not on my current agenda.

However the horse that is out on loan used to lose shoes for the fun of it on a very regular basis, and I would always set out for the field with grim determination to pace up and down until dark and find it at any cost. First, you use a bit of horse psychology and check out the obvious places, round the gate, round the water trough, under the trees. Then you realise the horse probably lost it having a hoolie so you look for skid marks. Then you systematically divide the field into strips and walk up and down each strip looking to the right and left. Then, just as you are about to give up having exhausted every possibility and probably found a couple of shoes that did not come off your horse, you will see two metal ends sticking out of a rut, and the feeling is better than s*x
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Yes, I think I need to put shoes on my barefoot neddy just so I can experience this satisfaction once again...
 
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There's nothing more satisfying than finding a shoe in a huge muddy field and knowing you've saved yourself a tenner! Unfortunately the only horse I have atm is barefoot so this form of entertainment is not on my current agenda.

However the horse that is out on loan used to lose shoes for the fun of it on a very regular basis, and I would always set out for the field with grim determination to pace up and down until dark and find it at any cost. First, you use a bit of horse psychology and check out the obvious places, round the gate, round the water trough, under the trees. Then you realise the horse probably lost it having a hoolie so you look for skid marks. Then you systematically divide the field into strips and walk up and down each strip looking to the right and left. Then, just as you are about to give up having exhausted every possibility and probably found a couple of shoes that did not come off your horse, you will see two metal ends sticking out of a rut, and the feeling is better than s*x
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Yes, I think I need to put shoes on my barefoot neddy just so I can experience this satisfaction once again...

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ROFL!!!! I have to show this to the OH so he can take the piss out of me!
 
My farrier never charges for lost shoes!

He does look distinctly unhappy though if shoe cannot be found, so I still feel obliged to really try!
 
QR- My horse is in bar shoes too. He lost both fronts last week... I spent an hour and a half searching my field for those shoes plus the slicone to go with the shoes.. I found them and one piece of silicone
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Only reason i really look is because i'm sure my farrier has to order my horses shoes in?? Oh and if i find the'lost' shoes i can get them put back on the same week which is really good seeing as my horse is a wimp without his shoes.

Find the shoe is a *fantastic* form of entertainment.
I agree that the feeling of finding that 'lost' shoe is MAGIC!

Oh and bar shoes are PIGS to dig out of the ground when they're wedged 5cm down into sticky mud... Dirt under your nails and stuff- YUCK
 
Brightmount, have we been looking in the same field at the same time? You brought back so many happy memories of looking for shoes from on particular horse! We did in the end resort to a metal detector and it did work reasonably well as one ned pulled his shoes so regularly it seemed like the best option. I think it saved a little bit of time!
 
D normally finds his lost shoes for me, once we had a replacement one put on, he does this by tripping over them whilst we're riding in the field!! So kind of him, but i prefer not to be lurched forward and then have a sore back, would rather he just kept them on. Only one shoe has ever eluded me and i think with the way he hoolies around the field i think he threw it that hard it went over the 15ft hedge and into the stream behind. Have hunted high and low and have not once seen it!
 
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