Remedial Farriery - should horse feel worse before it feels better?!!

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I get frustrated too, but vets do the best they can with the information and research they have and the treatments they trust.

They can't go around taking advice from a bunch of untrained hippies off the internet (which is essentially what we are ).

And the insurance companies dictate that we do something NOW. They won't accept the concept of "we'll try barefoot and see what happens over the next few months", unless you go for Rockley - and even that was a hard fight for a while .

So the vets are really between a rock and a hard place .

Why do we have to bow down to insurance companies? Insurance companies make my blood boil.

They have the whole country over a barrel and are laughing all the way to their yachts in Monaco...

Unless you claim, you don't have to listen to a word the insurance company says. If you're worried about what may become exempt, don't have insurance. Simple. Be your own insurance.

The only rock and a hard place the vets are in between is the ice in their martinis and the yacht floor!

As for hippies... sure Bob bowker et al wouldn't mind all that much being called hippies... hippies have a lot to be thanked for.......

 

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mine suggested that I could claim for a trimmer doing barefoot remedial work.. but that they wouldn't then cover his feet if I continued to use someone who wasn't a reg farrier.. go figure!

 

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mine suggested that I could claim for a trimmer doing barefoot remedial work.. but that they wouldn't then cover his feet if I continued to use someone who wasn't a reg farrier.. go figure!

Blinkin' ridiculous the whole thing. The FRC, insurers, vet, uknhcp, epauk, the lot needs a good shake up. But why right??? It's only a bloody hoof.

You can get flower remedies and aromatherapy and swimming lessons on insurance but you can't take your horses shoes off and rasp 0.2mm off the edge without a farriers permission.... it's a terrific joke isn't it! I'm laughing. I am.

 

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That's not really the point, though. Insurance or not surely it should be a vet's top priority to improve the pain level, never to make it worse? Like i said before, even if these wedges were, in theory, the solution to this horse's problems, surely the horse showing more pain symptoms after their application should be enough to make the vet go "no, we need to do something different". Have you had the vet back since the shoes went on, OP? In fairness to the vet, maybe this is the problem, they aren't aware that the horse has responded badly. Although they should have told the OP that this happening was a possibility and asked them to let them know if they were worried. The vet needs to see that the horse is suffering in them and have a re-think, even if that just means a more gradual approach to remedial shoeing. They also need to discuss the x-rays with the farrier and come up with a way forward in which the horse is kept as comfortable as possible.

ETA OP, Don't ride the horse at all until it is comfortable at rest and trots up fully sound.

 

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Yes sorry, off on a tangent again.