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ACGODFREY
Posted - 29 Dec 2009 : 7:51:56 PM Does anyone know if you can get snow studs or if shoes can be nailed in such a way that there is more grip? My boy is youbg, sprightly and has navicular and lands toe first and is in NB shoes. He slides alot, packs alot of snow in one foot in particular and is a bit sprightly so I have banned turnout for him in the snow/ice (2 weeks so far here!). He is accident prone but I feel bad for him restricting him in this way because of my own paranoia. Ideas please, bearing in mind he in on livery, not my own yard?
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pinkvboots
Posted - 04 Jan 2010 : 2:36:13 PM I would agree with Theo about the studs, most of what you said I do myself, I have a similar problem with turnout our Gelding gets snow build up more in one hoof and we fill both front feet with petroleum jelly, some people in our yard keep their horses in as soon as a bit of ice or frost arrives. In my experience I find keeping them in causes more problems as they are full of it when you do eventually turnout and gallop round which I find is worse I put plenty of hay out and they tend to just stand and eat, I grit the path to our field or lay old woodchips from the muck heap to stop slipping.
Theo
Posted - 31 Dec 2009 : 09:17:30 AM Hi ya, Just picked up your thread.
That's a difficult one, personally I would'nt put any studs on a horse for turning out as they would probably cause more injury and tendon damage than not...
As for anti-balling, we used to smear petrolium jelly (vaseline) in the hooves, once the snow starts to ball up, they just fly off...
As for the ice on the yard, I would lay grit down on the walk to the field, but if that's not economical, I would lay a track of what you have mucked out (dirty shavings / straw etc) on the ice to give extra grip over the ice and clean it up after the thaw...
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