Losing Shoes! There Must Be A Solution!!

[clairie]

I'm soooo fed up of my blimmin horses losing shoes!

Our farm is all clay and is soooo wet and muddy! A proper shoe vacuum!

I'm imagining some sort of rubbery boot thing that can keep the bl**dy things on with. Two of them need to have shoes on cos of current remedial shoeing, and the other I'd like to do lots of hacking over the winter otherwise they'd all be barefoot!

I think my farrier might batter me soon as she's coming out every other week to stick a shoe back on and it's not her fault at all!

Has anyone seen anything that might help? They all come in every night so no worries about boots being left on and nasties breeding in them!

Maybe I need to find myself an inventor or get on Dragon's Den!

[smithfield]

Shoe secure

www.shoesecure.com/

[haltnotsquare]

I've been having lots of issues with Splash's fee this summer, breaking and crumbling and then shoes coming off and damaging the side that wasn't broken.........

I did ask my farrier about the shoe secure and he reckoned because of the nature of our problem combined with the deep mud he insists on going in to that they wouldn't help him.

I do know lots of people have had success with them, especially for over reachers

[clairie]

Yeah I'm not sure that they would be much use in our mud. I'm thinking more a boot thingy.

Like Muckboots for horses! THey're the only boots that seem to defy the mud at home and remain on our feet instead of being lost in the mud!

Hmmm... better get my nutty professor head on!

[bingbong]

Would the cavello boots be any good? Or glued on shoes?

[kermie]

Is it worth looking at boots instead of shoes for the winter anyway? There are new ones out (Easyboot Trails) that are supposed to be really good....would only be a possibility for the one that doesn't need remedial shoeing though I guess.

[clairie]

Ah no - unfortunately two of them need them as we're correcting their feet just now. Thanks though!