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Hi everyone

I just wondered if anyone had any experience of glueing on metal shoes? My horse is quite foot sore at the moment and I want to put some front shoes on her. She can be difficult with nail on shoes so I asked my blacksmith if we could use glue-on shoes. The glue-on shoes I have seen are the white ?plastic ones. My blacksmith has suggested we try just glueing on the ordinary metal shoes and I wondered if anyone had any experience of this and if they stay on OK? She's not ridden and only potters around the field. Also they wouldn't be on in the winter when it was muddy, its just on hard ground she gets foot sore. My main concern is are they easy to get off? I can't imagine her behaving herself if they were difficult to remove and this is one of my worries if ordinary metal shoes are glued on as I don't know what they'll be like to take off?!
Any good or bad experiences of this would be appreciated!
Thanks very much
Love Lucyx
PS she also has white line disease so I'm worried about the toe clip making it difficult to treat, so may ask the blacksmith to put back shoes on her front feet - don't know if this makes a difference?
 
I would be very interested to know what happens if you do try this.
I ahve a horse with laminitis who has the white plastic shoes on, however they are not suitable for ridden work. Imprint do a black plastic shoe for light work, which is probably where ill go next.
I have used plastic shoes before (red ones), they were applied nothing like these and came off really easily. however that was a few years ago, and I think the glues might have improved since then.
No idea about the WLD, but double clips on the fronts are commonly used to good effect, to bring the toe back.
Please let me know how well they stay on!
 
Surely putting a shoe on over WLD is only going to increase the chances of seedy toe and the like? Why not use something like Cleantrax first to clear any infection and then go for some glue on shoes, if you feel it would be best for your horse. But don't seal the infection in as you could well do if you don't treat the WLD first.
 
agree with ISH_mad , clear the wld first but do try glue on, a horse i had staying with me lost a shoe and took away so much hoof that nailing on wasn't an option so the farrier had to glue the metal shoe on. the rider then went on to do 2 days of bridleway riding 12+miles a day with no problem . hasten to add this is my only experience of glued on and it was a positive one in this case
 
A tb mare i had, had horrible feet and we ended up having normal shoes, but glueing them on.

Never had any problems with her looseing them etc. She was shod every 5 weeks as some off her hoof wall was built up with a filler.

I'm not sure how easy they are to get off as i was still at school when i had her so my mum was always there for the farrier, but she seems to think they were easy to get off and involve something to do with levering (sp?) the shoes off.

I rode her as normal.......she was hacked, road worked, schooled, jumped and competed (open pony club eventing) with out any problems at all.

She had the shoes glued on for a few farrier visits, then alternated between glue and nails and by the time i came to sell her, her feet were decent. Still not the best but decent.
 
My farrier does quite a lot of glue on almunium shoes, for ridden horses with poor hoof quality. My retired pony has glue on Imprint shoes (white plastic heartbars), but this is remedial and he is never ridden.
 
Hi
If I do put them on I'll let you know how I get on! I keep putting it off because she is not the easiest of horses and I'm also worrying about her white line disease. Over the last few days her sore feet have improved a bit so I keep hoping that if I could manage for the rest of this summer I could try to clear her white line disease first and then re-assess when the ground goes hard next summer. If you don't hear anything from me you'll know I've not used them!
 
Yes I'm worried about sealing it in. I'd like to clear ir first really but shes had it on and off for ages and we haven't been able to clear it. I've just started to use a new treatment (swan hoof treatment) so I'll see how she gets on. I haven't heard of the one you mention - is it a suucessful one for clearing it long term do you know?
 
Hopefully she'll manage without shoes for the rest of this summer and I can try and clear it - I've not been having much luck clearing it so far! When she first had it about 10years ago a chemist made a gentian violet solution for me and it worked a treat but the chemist has shut so I couldn't get it anymore. I've just started a new treatment (swan hoof treatment) so fingers crossed that will work. Thanks for letting me know of the positive experience with them!
 
Thanks for your reply. Its good to know of a positive experience! They should stay on my tb then as she is not ridden - just trying to clear this white line disease first if I can but don't like her being sore in the meantime so its hard to decide whats best.
 
The Cleantrax is brilliant, as pretty much clears everything there and then. You have to soak each infected foot for something like 45 minutes, from memory, using a soaking boot ideally. If not some people have had good results using an inner tube! You could then put a glue on shoe on immediately if you wanted.

Here is a link to the place I got my Cleantrax from - www.equinepodiatrysupplies.co.uk
 
My horse has the plastic shoes and apparently they are really for lamanitic horses and for those on box rest.

Shes got them on as her feet are soo wrecked from bad neglect and hes had to cut the toes right back to get the balance right.

They are quite expensive at £85 for two fronts however he did tell me you can glue normal shoes on however they dont really let the foot breathe like normal shod shoes if that makes sense.
 
Thanks for your reply. Wow didn't realise the plastic ones were so expensive! No wonder my farrier recommended trying the metal ones first! She seems to be less foot sore at the mo so I'm keeping my fingers crossed she'll be OK without for now at least until I clear this white line disease.
 
Might also be worth you having a look at some of the barefoot sites too. Great tips for helping condition feet without shoes on to get them more comfortable. Even if you put shoes back on once the WLD has gone it could help.
 
Yep I'll look at some bare foot sites aswell thanks! I was thinking of starting her on the equimins biotin plus aswell to see if that will help but not sure if it will make a difference to her being foot sore. I've tried keratex but that didn't help. I'm wary of using other hoof supps like farriers formula has I had a horse who I'm convinced had a really bad reaction to that as his temperament was never the same after he went on it.
 
Hi there.

I understand the predicament you are in. It's very hard watching them struggle. You seem to be in a similar situation to me, so it might be worth your while giving hoof boots a try.

I have a retired 12 year old gelding who has been without shoes now for two months for various reasons due to his arthritis.

He was very comfortable in the field to start with, but during these last two months we have had two separate very dry spells where the ground has become so hard that he began to struggle (he is on clay). I therefore invested in his "trainers".

At the moment he is wearing them 21 hours out of 24 (he comes in for a groom and a fuss and a sleep in the afternoons). I don't want him to wear them too much and have to keep checking for rubs etc. but they have certainly been a godsend. As soon as it rains again and the ground softens up they will come off until the next time.

Glue on shoes sound like a nice idea but would in reality be incredibly expensive.

My chap would be terrible to fit them to because of having to hold his leg up so would problably be an expensive disaster.

His boots, however, are very much in favour. He stands like a rock for me to put them on and has even been known to gallop in them
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