Keeping shoes on?!

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sun21

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I have a 5 year old with thin soles who needs front shoes.
He is loosing a front shoe every 2-3 weeks after farrier. He is quite a stressy type and is one to regularly have a mad 5mins in the field if a field mate is leaving or if another horse is cantering around he’ll join in.
He wears overreach boots 24/7 but he isn’t overreaching and pulling them off. He’s catching his shoe on the inside towards the toe and pulling it off that way.
We are now on 4th shoe lost in the 4 months since he’s had them on.
I’m worried he’s going to damage his hooves so desperately thinking of ways to prevent this happening.

We had lameness issues last summer which we treated as laminitis as a precaution but vets and farrier actually think was thin soles and bruising from the hard ground.
I could take him back barefoot and use hoof boots but farrier thinks we should persevere for now.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated
Thanks! :)
 
SpeedyPony said:
What about a sausage boot?
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Thank you. I’ve actually ordered the townfields sausage boot this weekend as it looks chunkier than others. Thought if I would try that on as well as overreach boots.
Have you used one with success? I don’t know anyone who has a horse pulling shoes off on the inside
 
sun21 said:
Thank you. I’ve actually ordered the townfields sausage boot this weekend as it looks chunkier than others. Thought if I would try that on as well as overreach boots.
Have you used one with success? I don’t know anyone who has a horse pulling shoes off on the inside
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I've not used one myself, but know someone who has and found it worked.
 
lizziebell said:
Mine also likes to side step to pull shoes. I use a sausage boot on BOTH front feet, along with 2 sets of overreach - a normal size, with a larger size on top.
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Fabulous, I’ll try that next.
I had heard of people using 2 over reach boots.
Anything is worth a go at this point.
Thank you!
 
My TB took shoes off like this and had some nasty injuries from impaling himself on twisted shoes, nail binds, chunks of hoof missing etc. The only solution was to take them off in the end. His soles were like paper so my wonderful farrier suggested sole casts which really helped him in the initial transition.
I know you said you were going to persevere but thought I'd mention it as an option if it's the thin soles that are the reason for shoeing.
 
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