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If I didn't use clips on the hind shoes of most of my horses - they 
would come right out of them. My farrier uses smaller nails to minimize 
the damage to the hoof and fewer (5 to 6 instead of 8). My shoes stay on 
fine with this - mostly because of the clips.

I have used clips on the back for near on to 15 years and they work just 
fine. I've used them from time to time on the front. I would not shoe a 
horse without clips on the hind shoes.

Truman

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> I used clips for a long time with Kaboot. I liked them because it 
> took some stress off the nails and the foot would stay looking 
> better. My farrier used fairly small nails since Kaboot's feet grow 
> slow and the holes would get close together. During that time he 
> sometimes wore out the shoe and the nail heads get really ground 
> down. The clips probably helped keep the shoes on when those nail 
> heads were sheared off too. 
>
> Now some say they don't like them..something about affecting the way 
> the shoe fits with growth maybe?? but that didn't seem like a big 
> deal if you were on a set schedule and didn't let them grow out. 
> However, since they cost more anyway and Gunner doesn't have Kaboot's 
> issues of slow growth and a bit of a "slide" when the feet hit the 
> ground I'm not using them. 
>
> I've had hot and cold shoeing. Don't really have a preference. Seems 
> to help the farrier's arm to work hot steel, but I do cringe when 
> they put that shoe on there to level the foot. :-P
>
> Angie McGhee
>
>
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