Help - nail in foot I think!

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JackDaniels1

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Help!

Went down to horse late tonight and the same hind shoe as yesterday is hanging off again - this time worse! She can't put her foot down, won't put any weight on that leg! There are two nails left in the shoe, one is in normally and the other is twisted around and the head of it is bend over the shoe (if that makes sense!)

I have tried and tried and tried to get it out myself but she is not happy with me going near it
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no one else around - help!

She is stabled with lots of hay at the mo, resting said leg.
 
Didn't you post about this yesterday saying the shoe was hanging off & later post that it was all sorted out?
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So presumably you didn't get the shoe off yesterday? & you haven't got your farrier out? & you haven't got a vet out either?

Call out a vet & get it sorted out properly, don't waste your time on the bloody computer chatting...sort it out... you have a duty of care to your animal!!!

I've just seen your most recent post..... get another farrier. If he can't secure a shoe to last more than 24 hours then there's something wrong & I wouldn't use him again.
 
If your farrier put the shoe back on but it wasn't secure due to lack of foot or something I can understand how the shoe has come off.However your farrier should have told you that there wasn't enough foot to hold it in place for sure and recommended that you didn't turn your horse out just in case as that is what most farriers would do.If he has just tightened the shoe back up without putting new nails in I'm not surprised it has come off. I agree you need to get the vet in if the farrier won't come back out immediately especially if the nail has gone in the foot which it sounds like has happened. Chances are your horse will develop an abscess and will need to be stabled with a poultice in place to draw out any muck in there. This is not something that can wait.Remember the saying 'no foot no horse'
 
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Yes - got hold of farrier in the end and he nipped across and secured it back on for me

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Well if that is the best your farrier can do, find another!
 
If it is just the nail left in (the shoe is off again)? you only really have one option - to get the nail out asap, either the farrier or the vet can get the nails out, but it needs to be done asap or it will be infected.

You need to poultice it tonight to draw out any infection that will be building up, can that be done?
 
Me thinks this is a bit sus!!

Yesterdays post was full of help, don't know what to do, can't do it, nobody is here to help, then within a flash its "Thanks guys, all sorted" with no explanation!!

Is it just me or is this slightly unreal?

If it's real, take all the advice given here and get it off and get it sorted ASAP!!
 
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