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Hi all,

My Thoroughbred horse has toed out feet and LF is sloping and has a low heel. RF is fine however also a bit toed out. Back feet are beautiful and even.

My question is what would you do with this type of horse? Shoe? Barefoot? I’m currently attempting to switch farriers, as his original farrier was amazing and my horse had no feet problems and never lame and had always nicely balanced feet (until his shoeing due date when his LF gets a bit long). However, we moved to a new yard and i’ve had countless problems with the current farrier, now I am starting to work with my old farrier who said it’ll take 3 sessions to balance out his feet and he said his balance has gotten awful…
What would you do?
 
Back to the old farrier!

My old farrier retired; with the new farrier horse was niggly, on and off a bit 'off', not quite right...lame in other words.
All farriers have their own ways of doing things, and whilst what new farrier was doing was not necessarily incorrect, it changed the balance of things. I changed to a different farrier whose line of thinking and way of shoeing is more along the lines of my old farrier...and horse has been fine ever since.
 
Keep going with your old farrier? Easy. 3 sessions seems like quick enough work tbh. If you want to try taking him barefoot then you can, you might be better having the horse comfortable and back to his "normal" again before you start any further changes but also maybe your new/old farrier could do the same job without shoes.
 
Pearlsasinger said:
I'd go back to the old farrier.
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Of course it’s absolutely unquestionable. He hasn’t been feeling right for around 3 months now…My ‘old’ farrier shod him once around 2 weeks ago, hoping for some better results in the coming months. Having the vet out this week or next to see if any serious damage has been done
 
smolmaus said:
Keep going with your old farrier? Easy. 3 sessions seems like quick enough work tbh. If you want to try taking him barefoot then you can, you might be better having the horse comfortable and back to his "normal" again before you start any further changes but also maybe your new/old farrier could do the same job without shoes.
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I’m having the vet out this week or next week to see if any serious damage has been done, I will speak with the vet on what he thinks will be best for this horse. I’m up for anything as long as my horse is healthy and happy
 
teacups said:
Back to the old farrier!

My old farrier retired; with the new farrier horse was niggly, on and off a bit 'off', not quite right...lame in other words.
All farriers have their own ways of doing things, and whilst what new farrier was doing was not necessarily incorrect, it changed the balance of things. I changed to a different farrier whose line of thinking and way of shoeing is more along the lines of my old farrier...and horse has been fine ever since.
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Mine is exactly the same right now! My ‘old’ farrier done one shoeing session, however he still isn’t right, but the ‘old’ farrier said it will take 3 sessions at least to sort his balance out. There are still many other factors playing onto why my horse isn’t feeling right.
1. Lost top line muscle and I think he’s a bit sore in his back
2. Has a girth rub.
3. Unbalanced feet
Lovely!
 
Goldenstar said:
Back to your old farrier .
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Wishing it was this easy, i think my yard owner earns a percentage off my ‘current’ farrier from when he does all the liveries and school horses and ponies. So we’re not allowed to have a different farrier, however I decided to go against this, if anything I’ll just drive my boy to another place just to get him shod. No way am I going back to our ‘current’ farrier, especially that so many trainers and liveries complain about him! He doesn’t know how to shoe my difficult horse 😂 - last time I heard that he was only studying farriery and anatomy for 6 months…
 
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