Twisted Shoe - Advice Please???!!!

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Hi,

Just got back from the yard and found a very very lame horse. the YO came out and said he had come in from the field and he's twisted his shoe.

His offside hind shoe has twisted towards the inside - leaving the toe clip sticking into his foot - it looks like its just around the edge ie. where the clenches are hammered in for the shoe but i cant be sure. i tried everything to get it off, but he was only shod two weeks ago and the shoe was well on, and i dont have the right tools and nor did anyone else on the yard to get it off (note to self - buy some tools!) because its Sunday evening no farrier we could think of has his phone turned on, my farrier normally would, but sod's law - he's just gone on holiday!

I've packed his foot (with a couple of baby nappies) between the shoe and his sole, and put a bandage on to hold it in place, he looked a bit more comfortable but still obviously sore. i just wanted to know if anyone else has had this before and what the outcome was? and if you have any advice?

Luckily there is a farrier on the yard at 8.30am tomorrow so hopefully i'll be able to pursuade him to pull it off for me - i know i could have phoned the vet (well i did to see if they had a number for an emergency farrier - no luck) but the call out would have been around £100 - just to pull a shoe off, and i just cant afford that...
 
We had a horse do exactly that the other day, the owner got the vet out to pull the shoe as it was an emergency and the horse could have serously damaged the sole of it's foot standing on the quarter clip for the whole night (not only that he would have been VERY uncomfortable) she took the pain on the vets bill as she didn't want her horse hurting.
 
take it off...if you cant find someone that will, be it vet or farrier or someone you know. it could end up doing more than £100 worth of damage over night. my horse twister her shoe once, got the nail back in her foot, ended up with a month off work and lots of vets bills
 
I would definetly try anything to get someone to take it off. Search through local farriers. I know you won't know them but all you'll need them to do is take it off for now.
 
I can remember same thing happening to my friend a couple of years ago, horse came in with shoe twisted and horse hobbling. Like you she couldn't contact farrier and she had no tools to safely remove shoe so she had to call out vet. I really wouldn't want to leave a horse overnight with a twisted shoe, I think you should call vet. Good luck
 
My horse did the same thing - embedded the toeclip in her sole, but the shoe came off fairly easily.

The farrier pared out the hole that the toeclip made so that the air could get to it, as dirt got trapped up the slit it made. If it's near the wall you don't need to worry as that's not the danger zone and you should find it grows out quite quickly. My farrier packed an iodine soaked pad in the hole which the shoe helped to keep in place.

Echo what the others said though, if the horse is in pain you need to get the shoe off or you will have a seriously bruised foot.
 
Everybody, next time your farrier is out, ask him to show you how to safely remove a shoe, it is somethng every horse owner/rider should learn IMHO.
 
my daughters horse did this to 3 different feet in a matter of 6 weeks, 2 i managed to get off with a screw driver and some other random tool but one time he to had managed to embed the toe clip into his foot, got the vet out to do that one which resulted in an abscess and 3 weeks in his stable. His were caused as the lazy git twists his foot rather then picking it up when turning and the matting was gripping the shoe. I think it was that as never happened since after i took out the matting. I'd get the vet out regardless of the cost as you could be looking at a lot more for subsequent bills due to this.
 
My farrier gave me an old rasp as he said if you have nothing else to hand you can rasp the clenches off any nails still in the hoof to make it easier to lever the shoe off.

I wished I'd had it in the field last week when my horse twisted his shoe half off and I had nothing, not even a headcollar to ensure he stood still while I wrenched the damn thing off with my bare hands!
 
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