Keeping heart bars shoes on in mud?

[Rachaelpink]

Has anyone got any ideas as to how I can help keep heart bar shoes on in a muddy field? She has over reach boots on so is not standing on them. I think the mud keeps sucking them off. Having to call the farrier every couple of weeks and farrier has now asked me to go to someone else! She has recently had them fitted as the vet recommended them due to lameness.

 

[amage]

If mud is sucking them off I'd be questioning the shoeing to be honest!

 

[Shay]

Have you asked the farrier why they keep coming off? It could be a number of things - including poor shoeing. But perhaps her hoof wall is a bit crumbly in the damp. Might she need a supplement? Or a period without shoes to let the hoof wall grow back? If she's pulled them off so often there can't be much of the horn left at this point!

 

[Goldenstar]

IME you just can't keep them on in the mud obviously use overreach boots all the time but I gave up and simply could not turn the horse out when it was muddy .

 

[Rachaelpink]

She already has Naf biotin. She's a purebred appaloosa with white hooves so her hooves will never be brilliant. Going without shoes I don't think is an option. Has anyone tried hoof boots? My friend had a similar problem last year and was thinking of putting them over the top of her shoes. Having to change farrier anyway as I text him saying sorry to ask you to come out again but she's lost a shoe and he asked me to go to another farrier. Think it's because I keep calling him out. She's only had heart bars on for 4 weeks.

 

[criso]

Has anyone tried hoof boots? My friend had a similar problem last year and was thinking of putting them over the top of her shoes. .

I did when my tb used to wear shoes and was pullng them weekly but would never put them on in the mud, they were just too slippery but did work well in summer.

Even with overreach boots he could be pulling them off, a combo I found helped was one pair of neoprene no turn overreach boots, then a pair of standard ones at least a size too big over the top.

Incidentally farrier at the time said it's not that mud sucks off shoes, it's that it means there is a delay in the forefoot moving cleanly out before the hind foot moves in and catches the back.