Really cute 10-month-old Clydesdale bought from an auction. Some asshole put shoes on her so she would be “showy.”
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2Dogs dusts off my NO EFFING SCOTCHED SHOES! soapbox.
They’re the Draft equivalent of the TWH Big Lick horrors.
& Like any artificial means of exaggerating natural gaits, they do more harm than good.
At a price that’s 
Putting them on a not-yet yearling makes me think bad thoughts 
Lucky Nattie, ending up with people who seem to care & do things right.
Thanks for the link 
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I hate, hate those shoes. There is nothing good about them. And to put them on a not quite yearling??? Gross.
On the other hand, that little filly…there is a reason I fell in love with the Shires/Clydes!
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Thank you for the link.
I subscribed to all of their social media, as I know that helps.
They really seem to have a good, pragmatic approach to rehabbing. Weighing small yearling, pulling shoes, giving her time and space to move, etc.
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She has such girlie eyelashes!
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She appears very sweet. From their description of her drinking and eating , she must have really been stressed down. They got hold of her just in time. It looks like she is with people who understand these horses
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What a good girl standing there while they worked on those shoes. What the heck is the purpose of those shoes??? I don’t get it.
make them step fancy , like weighted shoes in the big lick performances. When you watch where they are leading her up the drive way you can see where she is striking her legs on the inside
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Originally used for Working Drafts to pull farming equipment through muddy/deep ground.
The modern version is an abomination that adds inches of epoxy causing hoof to grow flared.
Like any mechanical add-on, the effect on the natural gaits is minimal.
My shoer was here today to trim my 3 & told me he has a customer who bought a young Percheron & asked horse be shod in Scotched shoes. He obliged, though normally won’t do that type of shoeing. He can, just prefers not to.
Numnutz owner then turned horse out in a field.
Where by catching a leg as @hoopoe described, it flipped, breaking a leg & had to be euthed.
If Asshats insist on submitting their horses to this practice, they should at least educate themselves that Horses in Scotched shoes can’t have turnout! Maybe in a small pen, but certainly not in a pasture.
ETA:
Is this how you’d like your horse shod?
Raise your hand if you’d put one wearing these in a field 
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That picture made me sick to my stomach.
I saw the woman from whom I bought my Hackney pony working a horse in chains to get a more high stepping trot. This was the day I came to look at the pony and try him out. I hated to see that. I always figured my pony knew how to use his body, and I’d let him trot however worked for him. He wasn’t nearly as high a stepper as time went on, and that was fine, but Hackneys are bred for high action, so it never completely disappeared. He was old. He still looked awfully cute trotting around the pasture, which was the only time I could actually watch him trotting.
Rebecca
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My Hackney Pony came to me at 10yo, trained to use a lot of front action.
He showed that to me on the longe & was seemingly surprised when I asked for long, low & slow instead.
Now, at 24, the Action is reserved for alerting the others to Stranger! Danger! in or outside the pastures.
Or escaping his stall (Dutch doors at back are always open) when he’s decided I’ve had enough grooming time 
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That’s an abomination! Wow.
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Back in 2004 or so, draft shoes were running about $400 for a set of four just for the basics—-my ex is a farrier. Can you imagine?
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Still about the same.
IIRC, friend who has 5 takes them to an Amish shoer for the “bargain” price of $300/set.
Add 4H RT to haul there, so gas for the truck =$$
Amish guy does one of the local BN 8H hitches too, so friend is paying for the equivalent of Manolo Blahniks 
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And that cost was just for trims with resets. I believe new shoes and pads (if needed) added a chunk of change to the bottom line. As did did upcharges for having to put unruly horses in stocks to work on them.
But the ex is incredibly gifted at what he does and was in high demand by draft owners, light-horse owners, pony and mini owners and mule/donkey owners when we were together; and relieving laminitis pain with various materials like industrial styrofoam was his superpower, along with a sense for finding the exact spot to cut to in order to release pockets of pus from abcesses.
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@chestnutmarebeware If you’re still on terms w/Ex, ask him about this:
My shoer was here yesterday to trim my horse & pony.
I have the mini on an Every 5 Weeks schedule since he toyed with laminitis 4yrs ago.
He wasn’t due for another week, but his toes looked long. Shoer fit him in & told me about a new approach he’d heard about for laminitic changes in hooves:
Band like those used for joining pipes is screwed to the outside of the hoof. Supposedly, over a month or so it helps damaged laminae reattach.
I pass on this “treatment” as mini is sound on the more frequent trim schedule.
But, like the Hospital Plates screwed to hooves, I suppose it may have some value.
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I’m happy to ask him, but I want to make sure I’m thinking of the right hardware. Is it this kind of clamp?
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Yup
I’ll let you know what he says (assuming his number hasn’t changed).
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