Pony lame after farrier

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Anyone experienced this before?

Friends pony had new shoes early this morning and this evening is hopping lame on near fore only.

Two things made me stop and think, firstly he has gone 8 weeks this time whereas has always gone 6 before. Secondly, he has always had the 2 clip shoes even on fronts because his feet are such a weird shape but this time the farrier used the 1 clip ones.

Hope that made sense
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Anyway, he's had bute and she'll check him in the morning, and will call farrier back if no better.

What could this be? We were thinking maybe shod too tightly?

Am quite worried as he's a hardy sort who's never been lame before!
 
That happened to my friend pony lats week, shoes am and was fine, came in pm and hobbling
farrier came back nxt day and he had a little abcess in his toe

meant to ask this at the time but forgot, I know abcesses can come on v quickly but shouldnt the farrier have noticed when shoeing him there was one brewing? or could it have literally come up over a few hours?
 
Thanks MerlinsQuest.

Didn't think of nail bind
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. That sounds likely, especially as he wasn't lame straight away. I always associate that with not so good farriers, but I really rate this one, he has been doing the yard for over 10 years.

My friend gets very worried at the slightest hint of anything wrong with her baby and I want to be able to reassure her.
 
Nail bind/strike is a real possibility.
One of mine came in hopping lame in the evening after being shod in the morning - it turned out my farrier had taken just a little too much off in one go, and he was foot sore. He was fine after a couple of days!
 
I agree with above most likely Nail bind. It can happen even to the best of Farriers! So that would be my first port of call otherwise start thinking abbsess etc. Hope he is okay soon.
 
Yes this happened to us twice in a row, after the second time we changed farrier as he said it was because we rode too soon after shoeing
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My sister's mare got a touch of nail bind, and we have a fantastic farrier, well known to be very good. She was fine when shod, hopping in the afternoon, we phoned the farrier and he came straight back out and redid the shoe.
 
I have this problem frequently with my horse as he has narrow walls (i think that's the cause), his feet are crappy, although getting better but last year he was off work about 5 weeks as he got caught by the farrier and was bleeding (horse lets me know straight away though as will hold foot up and paw the ground. Shoe was replaced and he seemed ok but evidently no and an abscess formed. Farrier came back about 4 times, we took shoe off, poulticed, dug out foot, everything. this normally resolves it but this time we resorted to getting the vet who gave him some antibiotics and he was fine. Bloody frustrating though.

Poor farrier dreads doing him as, as he's sensitive he doesn't stay still and pulls his feet away so nails don't always get put in easily - it's a catch 22 bit have had him 13 years now and just have to put up with it. Usually have to give him a day off after each shoeing as slightly sore and farrier always has us walk him round after being shod. He now has 2 toe clips on the front also which seems to suit.
 
I used to have this problem ocassionaly with another horse - usually down to the shoes being put on too tight.

Give the farrier a buzz and he will be happy to come back and re-do the shoe.
 
Sounds like nail bind - has this once with a very good farrier who we still use, it's just one of those things sometimes. B was fine after being shod but when I came to put her to bed that night she was absolutely hopping.
 
This happened to me all the time.
Would get my boy shod, next day he would be lame, farrier would come back out to check shoes which would be fine, following day he'd be sound again.
Farrier thinks my boy may just have sensitive feet.
Farrier now uses shorter nails when shoeing my horse and this seems to really help.
 
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