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AH Test section A > Shoeing > Flashcards

Shoeing Flashcards

1
Q

What tools are required to remove a shoe

A

Buffer and claw hammer
Pincers
Nail pullers

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2
Q

What tools are required to dress a foot?

A

Hoof cutters
Drawing knife
Rasp

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3
Q

What tools are required to fit a new shoe

A

Pritchel (hot shod)
Claw hammer
Nails

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4
Q

What tools are required to finish off a shoeing?

A

Rasp
Clenching tool
Hammer
Tripod

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5
Q

Why might a horse wear pads

A

Protection - puncture, thin sole, bruised sole
Reduce concussion
Alter foot balance - heel wedge

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6
Q

What metal is used in road nails and studs?

A

Tungsten carbide

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7
Q

What are the disadvantages to using studs?

A

Difficult to put in
Strain the horn
Injury

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8
Q

What shoe would you use for ruptured or strained ligaments and tendons?

A

Wedge or raised heels

Heel extensions

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9
Q

What shoe would you use for laminitis?

A

None
Egg bar
Heart bar

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10
Q

What shoe would you use for corns?

A

Egg bar

Drop healed shoe

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11
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What shoe would you use for navicular disease?

A

Egg bar with rolled toe

Raised heel with rolled toe

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12
Q

What shoe would you use for bone spavin?

A

Wedge heel and rolled toe

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13
Q

Which ailments are concussion related?

A

Bruised sole
Navicular
Sidebone
Pedalostitis - pedal bone inflammation

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14
Q

Positive and negative of “barefoot trimming”

A 
"Natural"
Prevents corns and injury of misfitting
Cheaper
But
Professional person?
No option of studs
Sudden change
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15
Q

What might you use a rolled toe shoe for

A

To reduce stumbling

To reduce overreaching

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16
Q

What is a seated out shoe

A

A shoe that is thickest on the outside portion, reducing the area of weight bearing to the wall and reducing the pressure on the sole, so useful in flat footed horses

17
Q

What types of shoe can be used in horses that brush

A

Three quarter shoe
Knocked up shoe
Feather edge shoe
Knocked down shoe

18
Q

Describe a feather edge shoe

A

The inside branch is narrow, often without nails, that tapes to the heel

19
Q

Wha shoe is used in ponies that speedicut (strike their cannon bone and tendons with hind leg)

A

Front quarter of shoe cut away

20
Q

How to shoe a horse that forges

A

A rocker/rolled shoe on the front t Austen break over, the hindshoe is squared and set back with the horn rounded.
The hind heels are lowered with a longer branch which slows the breakover

21
Q

What is a diamond toe shoe used for

A

Horses that forge to one side of the front feet

22
Q

What can wedge heel shoes be used in

A

Horses with spavin, to relieve pressure on the tendons and navicular bone

23
Q

What is the difference between a straight bar and an oval

A

The oval bar protrudes beyond the bulbs and does not touch the frog

24
Q

What are the functions of bar shoes

A

Corns
Navicular
Relieved tendons
Laminitis

25
Q

What is a heart bar used for

What is the danger involved

A

Laminitis cases

Requires x ray to prevent putting pressure on the pedal bone

26
Q

When and how would a pattern bar be used

A

In severe tendon injuries under box rest for less than 3 weeks to prevent tendon contraction

27
Q

How does a swan necked shoe work

A

A fetlock support shoe in digital flexor tendon rupture

28
Q

Why are rocker bar shoes no longer used

A

Used to be used in ringbone, but medical guidance is now to rest the horse

29
Q

Why are T bar shoes (also known as corn shoes) not often used

A

Doesn’t protect seat of corn and can create a pressure point

30
Q

How do set heeled shoes protect corns

A

The shoe makes contact with the horn, but does not make contact with the floor protecting the corn

31
Q

What are the negatives of a shoe with a dropped heel

A

Takes the pressure of the corn but there is a gap between the horn and the shoe that can fill with dirt and leads to a pressure point

32
Q

When might you use a glue on shoe

A

Foals with limb deformities and horses with poor feet that can’t stand nails

33
Q

What has started to replace heeled shoes in reducing tendon and navicular pressure

A

Heel extensions

34
Q

What extensions can be used in foal limb deformities

A

Toe extensions - rapid bone growth (increase tendon pressure)
Lateral and medial extensions, either reduce or increase the distance between limbs

AH Test section A (11 decks)

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