Re: To Silicone or Not to Silicone

["Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <gabbani@starnet.com.eg>]

Dumb question from Cairo:  What are the pads for and what are they? Where I
ride in the desert we count the unrocky places rather than the rocky ones
and we don't have any pads here....they are for rocks?  Or are they for
areas where the horse is on solid stone?  I've been trying to figure it out.

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
gabbani@starnet.com.eg

> I have wedge pads on my gelding's front feet and my farrier husband
> silicone underneath them to prevent that problem.  We have not had any
> problems with lameness but then again we really fill that space up...
> generally have a mess and I have to peel the excess off for a few days
> after but we haven't had any sand get in there!  I think it works well
> provided that you really fill it well...stuff that nozzle in there as
> far as possible and don't worry about the mess.  I'd rather have a
> little mess to clean up than have to redo a shoe job because we didn't
> get enough in there the first time.
> Maggie, the farrier's wife  :)
>
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