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RE: [RC] [RC] unable to shoe - Ranelle Rubin

Kathy,

When I first brought Fellow home, he was one tough buggar to shoe in the rears. I could do anything to his feet myself, (took a small hammer and tapped, llifted his feet and held them, etc) and he stood quiet for everything but actually nailing on the rear shoes. I used the Dynamite product Tranquil which is an herbal relaxant with no side effects. I dosed him pretty heavily the first time, to the point that he dropped his PP. Each time I used less. After about 4-5 shoeings using this method he did not need anything at all. He now stands perfectly quiet.

Happy to order some for you if you like.

Ranelle Rubin
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From: "sherman" <sherman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [RC]   unable to shoe
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 01:17:49 -0800

I had planned on keeping Sonny barefoot since he was eight when I
started him & hadn't had shoes ever before. I finally shod him for our
first ride about 5 weeks ago because he got rub sores from the gaiters
of the easyboot epics. My farrier is very patient and spent quite a
while getting the nails in, especially the rears, but we got it done.
Sonny seemed to dislike the nail being driven in. Recently he lost a
shoe in front and the farrier came out to replace it today. Sonny would
not stand for the nailing. He'll let me hammer on his hooves, place a
shoe on it & hammer as much as I like, but as soon as the nail starts
going in he very strongly resists.

Has anyone ever had a horse like this. He doesn't have any problem with
having his feet handled, lifts whichever leg I want when I stand by it
and tell him "up", deals with trimming, booting, and really is a
cooperative horse, just doesn't seem to be able to handle the nailing. I
had hoped to keep him barefoot & ride in the boots, and I'm only
concerned because of having had rubs before that kept me from using the
boots for awhile, and the boots won't stay on without the gaiters. I
don't know of any way I can desensitize him to nailing.

Any ideas?

Kathy



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