Poor feet - Equicast

[dixie]

http://www.equicast.co.uk/home.html

Has anyone ever used the above and what sort of results did they get from it? I am having a lot of problems keeping shoes on my new horse and he has lost so many off his back foot that there is not much to nail to. I am wondering if this would help? I will speak to my farrier about using this but am not sure if he's part of the problem

He's shod him twice and the horse has lost 4 shoes, that's a 50% strike rate. He's also shod my other horse and he's also lost 50% of his shoes - not good for a horse that never loses any shoes.

Luckily the vet is coming out tomorrow for something else so I can get his opinion as well but wondered if anybody here had any experiences.

 

[Flame_]

Many years ago I had a horse that seemed to throw a lot of shoes. I changed farriers and the problem stopped.

Some horses do pull off front shoes very easily but if its back feet that's very unlikely to be what's happening. Some do have weak feet but a good farrier can usually work with that.

 

[deprezcl]

I have been having a nightmare with my horses feet. She has been on biotin for over a year now but her feet still fall apart. to add to the weak feet she stands on her own feet and pulls off her own shoes (even with overreach boots on) - she does what we do to pull off our wellies!!! My farrier was at a loss as to what to do and then he did a bit of research for me and suggested using equicast. My mare now has equicast on two of her feet and it's going well so far. It's worth noting at this point that if my horse is without a shoe for more then one day she becomes hopping lame. But with equicast she is sound. The next step is to get the other two shoes off and use equicast for about 6 months to allow the sole to harden and then we are going to let her go completely barefoot. I will be getting some old mac boots for when I ride on roads etc. Fingers crossed but all seems to be ghoing well at the mo.

 

[emilyandnessa]

As harsh as it sounds try another farrier if problem keeps happening then blame the horse and try something else but if he has had normal shoes until now other methods will be very costly and may not be necessary at this point, you probably want to use a foot supplement to just to be sure especially as you say he does not have a lot of hoof I and a lot of other HHO members love formula for feet. Good luck