Keeping shoes on

[Uppity]

My farrier is having a great deal of trouble keeping shoes on my mare. We use keratin regularly, her feet intermittently are soft and he uses 6 nails per hoof. I do riding club activities (and avoid the heavy going as much as possible). She is a kicker and has thrown shoes in the trailer (I now hobble her!) Any suggestions?

 

[Blizzard]

You hobble her in the trailer?!

as for hooves, Beau's feet improved no end once he got Topspec feed balancer, and I use Kevin Bacon hoof dressing.

 

[Shipley]

I found the newmarket hoof suppliment and farriers formula fantastic I was always loosing shows my farrier recomended putting nothing on the feet as he said it was a waste of money. The feed ones take up to 6 months to work as the hoof grows down but I noticed a difference after 6 weeks.

 

[alicep]

try adding biotin to promote healthy and strong hoof growth

 

[Gorgeous George]

I have been feeding George baileys lo-cal and putting kevin bacon dressing on his hooves, and 3 months on they really are starting to look really good.

 

[reddie]

I feed biotin and use Kevin Bacon hoof dressing. His hooves are much improved altho still loses the odd shoe if its been very wet.

 

[Solstar]

i feed biotin and use hoof moist int summer or effol int winter.