Basically, the trim MUST be done correctly (the most
important part) and I really think you need to be pretty aggressive with the
heels. I’ve seen many more incorrectly applied NB shoes than I have
correctly applied ones. The shoe is not the miracle worker, it is the trim.
Have your farrier study the trimming portion of the site and maybe even invest
in the trimming video AND the shoeing video (you’ll get different tips on
both videos).
Basically, if you look at your horse’s hoof from the
side (easiest to take a picture and then study it), you’ll see that the
heel runs so far under the hoof that the base of support starts under the hoof
rather than under the boney column. The goal is to get the heels back to the
widest part of the frog, not the middle of the frog. This will put the heel
buttresses (where the heel turns inward to form the bars) under the boney
column which is where they need to be in order to support the weight of the
horse.
Applying the shoes correctly (after trimming the hoof
correctly) will put the heels back where they should be and also places the
breakover back where it should be (1/4” forward of the tip of the coffin
bone) which will cause the hoof to load properly and should eventually get the
horn tubules growing in the right direction.
I really sggest looking to see if Gene Ovnicek has a clinic
coming up near you that your farrier could attend. He won’t regret it.
Karen
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