one shoe on and one shoe off..... what do you do?

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just pondering,

my loan horse has lost one of his shoes in the field and i just wondered what other people do when this happens. Do you wait for a new shoe to be put on before riding/lunging or would you be happy to ride on a sandy surface in a school? Would you be happy turning back out into the field (bit more like a swamp atm) or would you leave in? He has been out 24/7 but is also happy in, I left him in tonight. Too late to get the farrier this evening so not sure when he can have a new shoe on - might not be till early next week.

If it makes a difference it is a front shoe (he only has fronts on).

thanks :)
 
Im in the same boat and have been all over xmas :(:(. My farrier is abroad on holiday so no hopes of getting it back on yet.
The weather has stopped me riding really but I have been in the school and took it easy, mainly just to occupy my bored boys brain. Ive done mainly walk a bit of trot and the odd canter and only about half an hour and not every day. My boy doesnt normally get foot sore, if he was footy I wouldnt have rode. He is turned out as normal every day.
 
Thanks, that is what I was thinking but it is nice to have some reassurance :) I might leave him in at night for a few days anyway as it is ridiculously muddy!

Louby poor you :( Is there not another farrier that you could use? I am only just getting up and running again after the weather and he was off with a foot abcess before that :rolleyes: Roll on summer!
 
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Mine pulled one of his fronts off, was going to get the farrier out this week but then he went and pulled the other off today so now he's completely barefoot. He'll just wait till feb as he's quite tough.

I only ride him on a wood chip surface, in the field if slightly wet/spongy (which it is at the moment) and he gets turned out 24/7.
 
If he has tough feet then should be fine schooling and turned out. I jumped my mare on a good surface at a competition minus one front shoe and she was no different to normal. The foot will wear down though if you do a lot without a shoe and he might then get footsore
 
I don't ride if one of mine has lost a shoe. The other thing is to comb the field to find the lost shoe, the last time one of ours threw a shoe it was found with the nail sticking straight up. Fortunately all the horses were in out of the way whilst we hunted for it and none of them had trodden on it. But it is one of my biggest fears, and why most of my horses are barefoot.
 
I would agree, fine to ride in school and soggy field but not too much and not on roads.
Mine managed to pull a front shoe in the warm up for our local sj class in our summer show. It went hurtling off into a hedge! I still jumped him and he was fine.
Mine is excellent at removing his own shoes, and so I keep an Equiboot for such occasions, and use that as a 'spare' so we can hack. However after a successful transition to barefoot on the back feet I am considering doing the same to his fronts.
 
I ditto using an Equi-Boot or Easy boot. I keep both and pop one on if someone looses a shoe. Evens them up and protects the hoof until the farrier can come.
 
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