Shoeing - is this right?

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Any farriers out there?
Can anyone have a look at these photos of my newly shod horse and tell me if this amount of toe over a shoe is okay? He was shod last Friday 14th June.

I am confused as to why my farrier has done this and would appreciate your input before I ring him. Its almost as it the shoe is too small for his foot. I have never seen anything like this. Its the same farrier that I have used for about the last two years and he is a very good farrier and highly recommended by my vet. The photo is of his near hind. The shoes are new shoes not refits. The horse has bone spavin in both hinds. I did wonder if that was why. These are not rolled toes as I know rolled toes to be if that is the reasoning behind it.

I have asked for him to be reshod every five weeks as the horse is a WB with very good strong feet but they grow very quickly at this time of year. His feet has already grown over his shoes when he was shod. I dread to think what they will be like in five weeks time.

I don't want to 'accuse my farrier' before I know the reasons why he might have done such a thing.

Thanks
 
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Does the horse have long toes or over reach at all?

Setting the shoe back from the toe like that alters the breakover (makes it happen slightly quicker).
 
Faracat said:
Does the horse have long toes or over reach at all?

Setting the shoe back from the toe like that alters the breakover (makes it happen slightly quicker).
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No he doesn't have long toes and he doesn't over reach. Is that why its been done like that then do you know?

Just confused as to why all of a sudden, when he's had no conversation with me about long toes/over reaching or him having plans to do anything different.

The only thing I did mention to him was that the horse had got stuck in the wheelbarrow the day before (whilst I was at work) and dragged the wheelbarrow half way round the yard and pulled all his tendon and cut the inside of his cannon bone, narrowly missing breaking his leg in the process. I told him so he would be aware if the horse was a bit sore when he put his n/f up on the metal stick thingymebob that they put the foot on. :) or in case he resisted the farrier in anyway.

I had been in two minds whether to have him at all to be honest but thought it would just add to his problems as his feet had overgrown to the point that they would have been causing problems had the shoes been left on much longer.
 
Could you take a side on photo?

Something like this (you need to put the camera practically on the ground).
non-distorted-horse-hoof.png
 
Faracat said:
Could you take a side on photo?

Something like this (you need to put the camera practically on the ground).
non-distorted-horse-hoof.png
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Okay I will do this tomorrow and put it on here tomorrow night. Both the fronts and the hinds.

I think I may ring him in the morning just to ask him what is going on but not be confrontational or anything, for all I know the reason why he has done this might be a very good reason.

Its so difficult when you don't really know much about shoeing to have to try and work out why someone has done something. I really do wonder if he didn't have the right size shoe in the van or something. But surely not....???:confused: He did have lateral extensions at one time but doesn't have these anymore.
 
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***BUMP***

Anyone else have any comments/suggestions please about these photos of my horse after he was shod last week.

The farrier has an excellent reputation, but I am a bit shocked at the sudden 'toe poking over shoe' thing.
 
Mine always puts shoes on mine like this, she has quarter clips to set the shoe back, to allow the heels to be supported & the balance to be more correct. She's a thoroughbred & has low flat soles with long toes & low heels.
 
chestnut cob said:
Difficult to say without side-on photos. TBH no one can tell you why your farrier did it - best person to ask his him.
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Ha! You are right and I just have. :) I rang him and he said that it was usual practice and it was because he'd grown a lot of foot this time around.

He said he'd rolled the toes and this would help him.

That's good enough for me. I said I'd never seen him do that before and he seemed very suprised, but I definetely have never seen this before. How strange. :confused:

But my farrier is ace so I am pleased I had the conversation with him and glad that he answered my questionned without feeling that he was being 'accused' or something! :)

Bless him, he will have a nice chocolate box of me this year, the last one was cheap stuff from the pound shop but i was a bit skint! :eek::eek::eek:
 
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