Re: RC: more shoeing questions

[DreamWeaver <karen@chaton.gardnerville.nv.us>]

At 08:26 PM 01/02/2000 -0500, Rides 2 Far wrote:
>the river crossing loop".  If I do all that stuff you do, (foam, vet
>wrap, etc) that's too much trouble to take them on and off.  Also, if I
>bend the cleets like you do, they don't work any more for a "quick spare
>tire".  I'm still thinking about it though.

<BG>  Okay, I'll come clean!!  At Death Valley, I finally got tired of the 
size 1's coming off of Rocky.  They mostly stayed on, but every so often 
one comes off and he doesn't even blink, so I never know it.  The farriers 
been changing his feet slightly, getting that club foot fixed you know.....

So Linda tells me that I can get an "O" on this horse.  I just gotta use a 
rubber mallet.  Uh huh.

So the next morning, there I was at 5:15 a.m. yammering on a size "O" on 
Rocky's foot.  Got them both on, front feet.  No room for vetwrap or 
anything else.  I stuck duct tape over the teeth on the sides and that was 
that.  Rode him 50 miles, vetted thru and took the boots off.  Put them 
back on the next day, and so on, for 4 days.  Worked just super, and we 
never lost a boot!   I guess I'm so used to taking them on and off that I 
have the time allotment for it fixed into my schedule <G>.

Now of course, carrying a spare "O" won't be much helpful when I'm riding 
my horse that wears a size 2 boot.  Dang!

k


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