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    [RC] Horse shoeing woes....HELP! - Colleen Jones


    I have a horse that I got late last fall. He had very low heels(I mean LOW) and he ended up with a bad infection in the bulbs of his heels that took two months to get rid of. We live in the forsaken NE with slop and mud :) So, we also had a mysterious hole compounding the problem near his frog. After we got a handle on that and used up about a 150.00 of wrap we put pads on his feet. (front only) That worked pretty well and then I switched blacksmiths to the one I use on my other horses. She wouldn't put anything under the pad on the reset and he got thrush under the pad. I pulled the pads off since the hole is gone. She also put shoes on the back feet with a lift on the heel. He has regular plates on the front. The first blacksmith did a great job in correcting his heel angle, however he did it in one trim!!!!! My poor boy couldn't even get up. This is driving me nuts since this guy has done great work on an aged schoolmaster and another horse who interferred with herself. I mean he is REALLY good.  So to the present I had him reset last week and he was footsore right before a ride. He stayed footsore and now his back is sore. I always tell whoever is doing him not to take off too much that he is really sensitive. Should I just keep pads on this horse??I am ready to learn to do him myself. He went to the ride with no lameness on the first two checks and then grade three at the end. Guess what I found in his hoof? A huge piece of gravel. I also found another one yesterday stuck between the shoe and his frog crevice with was very hard to remove. Could I have jogged him out again for the vet at the ride? I was picking his feet out when she was ready to start and was only on the first hoof. He also has been interferring and hitting himself and that's why I had him reset in five weeks instead of waiting longer. He never did this before. ( I owned this horse before for three years.) So, I think it has something to do with the shoeing......Thanks, Colleen