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Member:
Iride2

Posted on Thursday, Mar 11, 2004 - 11:32 pm:

Has anyone suggested putting a horseshoe on her hind pastern? I had a mare that kicked and my farrier suggested this and formed a shoe so it wouldn't slip off without my taking it off and I must say, she quit kicking. I put the shoe on her when she's in the stall and remove it before I turn her out or ride. Beleive me! It works!
Member:
Dres

Posted on Friday, Mar 12, 2004 - 1:29 am:

Sandy how do you put this shoe on and off.? i have a stall 'pawer' , i put a bolt on a thin dog collar right over his fetlock and let it hang, he, at first did not like the way it felt hitting his hoof... then he started chewing on it and pulling at it... i was afraid that he might twist a tendon or .. so i took it off..

darn horses anyway...

Ann
Member:
Iride2

Posted on Friday, Mar 12, 2004 - 9:27 am:

Ann, Have your farrier fit the shoe so it will slip over the cannon bone and slide down to the pastern. It should be loose enough so you don't have any problem slipping it up or down to put it on or taking it off but it won't slide off when it is around the pastern.you can use this on the front feet for pawing or on the back for kicking. Just remember, don't turn him out with it on. That's when you can run into trouble. Good Luck, hope it works for you. I'm sure it will, it did for me. Oh, if he paws with both front feet, use one on both feet.
Sandy
Member:
Dres

Posted on Friday, Mar 12, 2004 - 9:51 am:

Sandy... ok,, explain again... i will have a farrier close up a shoe just large enough for me to slip it in on the cannon bone... will it then slip down below the fetlock joint to the pastern..? seems it might be a little bit large if going over the joint... did you use a heavy shoe or something lighter like a slider...?

wish you could take a picture or draw one for me...

Ann
Member:
Iride2

Posted on Friday, Mar 12, 2004 - 10:47 am:

Ann, It will be trial and error for the farrier.
just explain to him that he should bend the shoe
so it will slip over the cannon and down over the
fetlock to the pastern. The pastern should be
bigger than the cannon so it won't slip off. I wish I could send you a picture to. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. What you can
do is take an old shoe, slip it on your horse's leg slide it down to the pastern.It will be to big but it might give you an idea of what I'm talking about. The type of shoe doesn't matter. I just used a shoe that the farrier had taken off. Any shoe will work, it's the fact that the shoe bangs them along the coronary band or pastern that works. Let me know
how it works for you. Sandy


Member:
Liliana

Posted on Friday, Mar 12, 2004 - 11:26 am:

Hello Dawn,

You mentioned “mainly he does this after feeding time (fed in his stall), alone at the barn, after the other horses have gone to the hay ring. This morning it was at 5AM!
Why is he left alone ?!! does he want to stay in?

When horses do unusual things they are trying to tell us something, so we have to ask ourselves what could it be.

Does he have mice in his stall? is he threatened or bullied by another horse? is his feed enough for him? is there mould on his bedding, do they share this stall? what is behind the wall?

My advice would be that before you go and spend a lot of time and money in trying to restrain this horse, it would be a lot easier to really try to find the root of the problem, berfore it turns into something else.}
All the best
Liliana
Member:
Traveler

Posted on Friday, Mar 12, 2004 - 12:49 pm:

Hi,

I have a boarded horse in my barn that is a problem kicker, she is destroying the barn. In the last month, she has demolished two waterer's and put more dents in the walls. She kicks all the time. The owner says it is because of a stallion nearby, but when we moved her to the other end of the barn while doing repairs and drying time, she does the same thing. I've had to insist that the owner put a kick chain on her. It is just a padded band that fastens just above the hoof with a short chain on it. When she kicks the chain hits her back. It's not long engouh to hurt her or cause any damage. The nice thing is that the pay back is instant and easily managed. They are available at tack stores and in catelogs. Good luck, kickers can be a real pain (sorry for the pun) to deal with.
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