Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Under run heels

Scrap the eggbar since they tend to influence the heels to an under run configuration for some reason. This info didn't come from any book either, nor was it a vet. It came from watching the changes in a clients horse after wearing egg bars for 7 years. I was aware of the due to the fact that I was the technician applying the eggbars. I've heard of this happening from the farrier I apprenticed with but never had the oppertunity to see it happen. I can't explain the mechanics behind it but I can say that an eggbar shoe isn't my preferred treatment of this condition. What I do is trim each hoof to meet the other hoof in the middle of the difference of the two. Chances are that nobody cut all the heel off, the hooves are just configured that way. In my 30+ years of dealing with horse I've learned one thing, what the human eye percieves as less than adaquate for the horse's body usually ends up being optimal for the way it's body is
conformed.

Ridecamp Guest wrote:

> Karen Webb kpwebb@xxxxxxx
> I bought my Arabian stallion at three and a-half and it was obvious that he hadn't had much farrier care for about a year prior to that.  Someone had cut off all his heels and he was barefoot traveling around in about a half acre paddock running all the growth off his feet.  He is now seven and in a set of four shoes.  Three of his hooves are now in good shape.  However, the front right continues to be a problem.  The farrier I am currently using seems to be doing a good job.  The stallion is in an egg bar shoe on the front right which has helped to improve his hoof angle, but it still does not match his left hoof.  A vet/farrier recommended putting him into an aluminum shoe with heel caulk that would compensate for the lower angle on the right front, but my farrier argued that with the liberal turn out I give my guy and some slope to his pasture, that he would likely just keep catching the heel caulk and ripping the shoe off.
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> Anyone have any experience correcting this problem and what did you do.  I haven't really pushed this guy as I didn't want to make him lame and so far he's been extremely sound.  We've done one LD ride, a NATRC ride and some cross country jumping and lots of trail riding.  But since he's seven, I would like to get going but realize his feet need to be in the best possible shape first.
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> Any ideas?
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Rob Kalb
Rob's Equine Hoof Care
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