Shoeing Flashcards
What tools are required to remove a shoe
Buffer and claw hammer
Pincers
Nail pullers
What tools are required to dress a foot?
Hoof cutters
Drawing knife
Rasp
What tools are required to fit a new shoe
Pritchel (hot shod)
Claw hammer
Nails
What tools are required to finish off a shoeing?
Rasp
Clenching tool
Hammer
Tripod
Why might a horse wear pads
Protection - puncture, thin sole, bruised sole
Reduce concussion
Alter foot balance - heel wedge
What metal is used in road nails and studs?
Tungsten carbide
What are the disadvantages to using studs?
Difficult to put in
Strain the horn
Injury
What shoe would you use for ruptured or strained ligaments and tendons?
Wedge or raised heels
Heel extensions
What shoe would you use for laminitis?
None
Egg bar
Heart bar
What shoe would you use for corns?
Egg bar
Drop healed shoe
What shoe would you use for navicular disease?
Egg bar with rolled toe
Raised heel with rolled toe
What shoe would you use for bone spavin?
Wedge heel and rolled toe
Which ailments are concussion related?
Bruised sole
Navicular
Sidebone
Pedalostitis - pedal bone inflammation
Positive and negative of “barefoot trimming”
"Natural" Prevents corns and injury of misfitting Cheaper But Professional person? No option of studs Sudden change
What might you use a rolled toe shoe for
To reduce stumbling
To reduce overreaching
What is a seated out shoe
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
What types of shoe can be used in horses that brush
Three quarter shoe
Knocked up shoe
Feather edge shoe
Knocked down shoe
Describe a feather edge shoe
The inside branch is narrow, often without nails, that tapes to the heel
Wha shoe is used in ponies that speedicut (strike their cannon bone and tendons with hind leg)
Front quarter of shoe cut away
How to shoe a horse that forges
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
What is a diamond toe shoe used for
Horses that forge to one side of the front feet
What can wedge heel shoes be used in
Horses with spavin, to relieve pressure on the tendons and navicular bone
What is the difference between a straight bar and an oval
The oval bar protrudes beyond the bulbs and does not touch the frog
What are the functions of bar shoes
Corns
Navicular
Relieved tendons
Laminitis
What is a heart bar used for
What is the danger involved
Laminitis cases
Requires x ray to prevent putting pressure on the pedal bone
When and how would a pattern bar be used
In severe tendon injuries under box rest for less than 3 weeks to prevent tendon contraction
How does a swan necked shoe work
A fetlock support shoe in digital flexor tendon rupture
Why are rocker bar shoes no longer used
Used to be used in ringbone, but medical guidance is now to rest the horse
Why are T bar shoes (also known as corn shoes) not often used
Doesn’t protect seat of corn and can create a pressure point
How do set heeled shoes protect corns
The shoe makes contact with the horn, but does not make contact with the floor protecting the corn
What are the negatives of a shoe with a dropped heel
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
When might you use a glue on shoe
Foals with limb deformities and horses with poor feet that can’t stand nails
What has started to replace heeled shoes in reducing tendon and navicular pressure
Heel extensions
What extensions can be used in foal limb deformities
Toe extensions - rapid bone growth (increase tendon pressure)
Lateral and medial extensions, either reduce or increase the distance between limbs
