Thank you in advance for ideas. Unfortunately my mini (~250 lbs) has a hip luxation with femoral fracture. That said he stands and walks on it, occasionally even runs and plays so we’re just going with it. He will stand on his bad leg alone to kick flies or step up into trailers quite willingly but he’s clearly not comfortable to let us trim the good foot without support. I basically let him sit on me the last time but I was brainstorming sling options with the vet and farrier and wanted to see if anyone here had ideas before I started ordering items. Unfortunately Calf slings don’t go quite to 250lb and I haven’t found anything else that looks ideal. We need the back end lifted about 3” for 5 minutes without him slipping out the front, we are planning light sedation for safety but he’s quite cooperative with people supporting him with a towel around the middle. He thinks it’s a very strange new game, but all attention is good attention in his book. Any thoughts really appreciated and a picture would be amazing.
Decades ago, we had a broodmare bitten by a rattler on her hind leg.
Leg swelled up so big that it may have been impairing some nerves and she was about to fall over.
Vet put two of the web stall door guards together and tied them from the rafters and those kept her on her feet for the couple days it took for the swelling to start gong down so she could stand safely on her own.
Could your vet make some such work to support her from the barn rafters or a tractor bucket or the sides of a narrow aisle, or ?
Could you use an engine lift and or tractor and use one of the calf ones. If your not lifting high, I think you would be ok.
Otherwise they make some cargo webbing that easily will hold the weight.
If he’s allowed to lie down, is teaching him to go down for trims an option?
Thank you everyone for great ideas, I knew you would help.
The stall guard idea is really interesting! Thank you.
He really isn’t all that heavy, we have a reinforced beam in one stall that we think a compound pulley will give us plenty of leverage. a bit squeamish think about it about it myself but my hunter family member have tackle they use that can easily do the job. I am most concerned about something secure and sort of comfortable to put on him.
He’s really afraid when he’s down, and we’re afraid that will cause a struggle leading to injury. The hip issue was caused by him laying down, getting his stifle locked and panicking. If I didn’t have 24/7 video on that stall for watching a previous occupant, I’d never have figured out how a perfectly fine horse at night check self destructed overnight.
I was liking the lying him down idea.
But you know your guy & if that’s cause for panic, I vote for the stall guard sling.
Especially since you say being held up in a towel seems like fun to him.
Meanwhile…
JINGLING 
for your little guy to get better ASAP!
My mini - Wascally Wabbit aka Bugs - suggests extra treats are healing
Himself:
Being a mini I assume is shorter than normal 5’ panels/gates.
Maybe you could lean mini on a pipe gate or panel you have added straps or a web type stall gate low on the panel, to slide under mini, around it and back up to tie to the top of the bars.
Once you trim one side, switch mini around and do other.
May want to add some towels or blankets between bars and mini, maybe straps and mini also, so is soft to lean on.
Both the gate and straps should keep mini from fussing and upright.
Thank you all! I am going to do some shopping and experimenting today. He’s certainly under 5 feet, in fact well under 3 feet and against a wall/gate versus up sounds interesting to me but farrier really liked lifting. My husband suggested two hay bales, one in front for eating and one underneath for support. Doubt it would work but it’s a funny picture. He completely agrees with Bugs on the treat front!
I’ve actually done a bale under a mini for support during a trim. It worked well but the mini wasn’t happy about it so she had to be sedated. Good luck!
I expect you have already tried this, but just mentioning it.
The problem here seems to be that the mini is injured, so when there is no cooperation maybe is because it is hurting.
That means, keep trying different situations and may have to keep changing what works, as mini gets more comfortable.
Could you find a low stool, a concrete block or something you can put a folded towel over for comfort and lay whatever foot you pick up to rest on it, so the bottom of the hoof is accessible for a quick trim?
Regular hoof stands are probably too high for a mini.
I hope all heals soon and well.
My farrier would trim my neighbor’s mini (with a broken hip) by standing her on our sidewalk, and let the injured leg dangle off the edge. The sidewalk is higher than the ground surrounding it. So maybe build him a platform he can stand on, and that he can hang that leg off of it.
I like this idea, especially since the OP says munchkin would be lightly sedated.
So depending on the height of the mini…maybe a tack trunk or one of those Stanley tool boxes people use as tack trunks? A barrel? A hay bale tipped on its long edge (a little taller)? A high quality muck tub…you will be surprised at how much they will hold? Just some ideas. And plenty o snacks!
Along this line of thinking, would a goat milking stand work?
DIY examples here:
They are also available from most farm supply places, and Google tells me that even Amazon has them!
Will his pain threshold improve as he heals? Another words is it just a matter of him getting through two months of healing before he can be trimmed as before? Hind feet do tend to grow slower, and procrastinating a hind trim might be a (forgivable) option if this is a temporary state. Of course there may be many other reasons why this option is a bad idea!
Since his foot was inside the cast, we couldn’t 
It was a concern (of mine) months while I couldn’t see it, but wound up not being a big deal at all. Now I have a senior with advanced/advancing DSLD and we skip his rears because it’s getting too hard, so he’ll go 12-20 weeks between trims on the back and he also suffers no ill-effects. Semper gumby.
I was referring to the other hoof that would require trimming while his broken leg was not able to support him for it to be trimmed.
Oh well that makes sense! We didn’t do that one either, for a while, because he wouldn’t stand on the cast. Once we were sure that the fracture wouldn’t shift (still several months, I think it was when he went from his second cast to the splint?), the vet let him sit on him and quickly trimmed the good one.
Beam clamp, pulley/s, and web haynets would work perfectly. There is even a an easy to use beam clamp that has a a locking pulley built in that’s used for hoisting a cow leg to work on, but unfortunately I can’t find it on the internet. I will look again with a few different search options though. I don’t think a locking pulley would be necessary for such a small creature though as long as you had sufficiently strong/heavy person holding the rope/s.
Can’t find the full set with the rope and pulley, but here is the actual hook/clamp thingy. For extra safety, we’d hammer the crap out of the hooks so they’d get a good hold in the beam. Probably not necessary for the weight we were usually lifting, but I’d definitely want to give a few whacks either side for such a tiny little creature that wouldn’t be exerting that much downward pressure on the clamp.
