LOSING SHOES DUE TO THE BAD WEATHER

LStarr said:
Regardless of shod or barefoot, the recipe for the best hooves that the individual horse can achieve :
Good diet
Good farrier
Stable internal moisture content
Correct use of relevant products

Can't change genetics but can make the best of what you have with everything else!
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I agree, diet meadow plants, not rye grass.
Good farrier who makes his own shoes, they don't learn how to make shoes at college, this is an art past down and they don't take two minutes to make its a skill which many can't be bothered to learn.
 
Can anyone explain why, out of 4 horses all on same diet, workload and pasture, 3 are happily unshod with tough feet and 1 is sore with chipping feet and loads of wear?

Must be a bit more complicated than just, "oh, it's all about your diet", non?
 
My boy lost a front shoe the other week, was found in a very muddy, very boggy corner of his field (which frequently gets flooded). This was put on only a week before. Luckily shoe was found and put back on without any problems. It's so wet a lot of horses on the yard are losing shoes :( Especially when our fields get flooded easily when there is a lot of rain!!
 
Try Rock Hard by Naf, Im using it on my ISH who has terrible feet and it seems to do the job 7 weeks I got out of my last set of shoes, a record for him :)
Just paint it on once a day cant fault it only its a bit pricey E28 but im still really happy with it :)
 
Cortez said:
Can anyone explain why, out of 4 horses all on same diet, workload and pasture, 3 are happily unshod with tough feet and 1 is sore with chipping feet and loads of wear?

Must be a bit more complicated than just, "oh, it's all about your diet", non?
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Not necessarily. The same diet doesn't necessarily suit all horses. 4th horse may be particularly sensitive and or have metabolic issues. Worth looking more closely at his diet - perhaps getting a forage analysis done to find out what is lacking so that this can be adressed for this particular horse.
 
I've just seen the posts about the heavy road work horse, sorry can't remember the poster's name but my newly barefoot heavyweight cob has done almost a hundred miles of road work since he came home from Rockley at the beginning of June so I'm afraid I don't believe that it's impossible to do lots of road work barefoot.

Provided the management is right it's possible. Oh and with the question about 4 horses on same feed and grazing and one not managing barefoot I'd say that one is less able to use the minerals necessary to it from the supply given. Maybe try a forage analysis to find out which one isn't being absorbed. Or maybe you're just lucky that the other 3 don't need an excess of minerals to work well barefoot. Just a thought. :)
 
Was discussing shoe making with our farrier this afternoon-he says so many apprentices can't be bothered to learn how to do it & he'd just reprimanded his apprentice this week for not getting on with practising it-said he'd never give him a permanent job if he didn't learn how to do it properly &that it was common these days&allied to the 'can't be bothered,world owes me a living' kind of attitude:-/ (My farrier is not old btw,is in his early 30s).
 
I think it is for a pair plus 4 studs, I have heard they last for months and months. Though bare foot is good if you dont xc or jump I guess
 
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