Just started with aluminum wide web wedge shoes 2 wks ago and although horse seems to be going well in them, they are not staying on. Weather is getting rainy and snow will becoming so these will def not work. Looking for ideas or info.Low heels seem to be issue ( just within the last year) Farrier is starting to avoid me. Horse must have turnout . What would happen if he just went barefoot? how bad would it get? Any ideas or thoughts or even stories of barefoot success? All hopes of showing died long ago ,now just would like to occasionally ride. I am running out of hope
Do you have particularly problem ground? Mud or rocks?
We have used wide web Aluminum shoes off and on over the years. Horses here have big feet, mostly 4s in Kerckhaert shoe sizing, I seem to remember the shoes having clips, Probably side clips. No wedges though. I do not remember having any problems with them coming off, even in our clay mud. Aluminum shoes will wear out a bit faster than steel, softer metal.
Problem could be how they are being put on the horse, Or how the shoe is fitted to the hoof, Not fitted tight enough or longer toe is not getting fronts out of the way fast enough, Just presuming it is fronts giving you problems.
A highly recommended farrier hand made shoes for my horse that were wedged at the heels with additional medial-lateral wedging and told me the horse would never go in four flat shoes. Turned out that wasn’t true.
Background. Horse tends to go NPA on both fronts and grow way too much toe, especially the LF. By May 2020 I’d had him four years and he’d been sound and in regular work for maybe half of that time.
Longer version. By December 2020 I couldn’t even get him sound after a few rounds of him going sound and that only making it a month or so into working rehab, I reached out to his breeder. At that point he was so lame that I could hear it when I trotted him in hand on hard ground for the vet. I took him to her place and pulled his shoes and turned him out for six months. He was looking pretty sound after three months but my vet told me to give it at least six months. Then vet had us shoe him in wide-web Al “onion” shoes and start work excruciatingly slowly. That was summer 2021. By early 2022 we started showing, up to the meter jumpers. We transitioned to Epona shoes and eventually to four flat shoes. Front end is not really a problem though we treat him like gold.
(Recently we’ve been having SI issues, but his RH has always been a bit stiffer than the LH and I suspect that would have happened eventually and likely not related to the previous lame RF. Nonetheless he’s gotten time off and I’m working with a vet on treatment.)
I have kept pull-on bell boots on 24/7 for various reasons. Mud but no snow. And no wedges though have used with the onion shoes I mentioned in the above post .
My friend’s horse went in these with pour in pads for a loooong time as a low level hunter. He would pull one about every other cycle. The farrier hated them then, too.
Do these have clips? Is horse wearing bell boots?
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Front shoes -no clips. Double bell booted for turnout. Solo 6 hrs in pasture daily, dewy in a.m. then dry. Just late this afternoon, farrier contacted me and will come to fix tomorrow! I am hopeful he has a good idea for this problem. Thanks to you all for replying- I’ll follow up after he shows.
