The United Kingdom Horse Shoers Union

The voice of the farrier.

Picture Gallery 2005

Photos 1 - 8) received from John Ford 9th January 2005:

"You may be interested in the attached photos which show feet that can't be nailed to, yet with the use of Equithane the horse was able to carry on working until the feet grew back."

1, 2) no foot to nail to

3, 4) rough application lateral and dorsal view LF

5) rough application dorsal view RF

6, 7) Dorsal view with shoes

8) palmar view with shoe LF

talk about it on the horses mouth

Photos 9 - 12 received from John Ford 10th January 2005:

9) Before shoeing. This horse came into my forge the beginning of December 2004 crippled, especially on the right fore.
The previous farrier had tried to cut out and treat an abscess at the toe, which had worked up nearly to the top of the hoof.
Unfortunately he tried fitting a narrow hind shoe to the foot, leaving it about 1.1/2 short of the widest point of the frog,
hence the result you can see.

10) Before shoeing lateral view

11) After shoeing. The filler used was Imprint granules, which can be applied close to sensitive structures, as there is very little or no heat up during curing.

12) After shoeing lateral view.

talk about it on the horses mouth

photos 13 - 14 from Martin Humphrey 7/6/2005

13) Foot surface. This shows a build up of wood fibres on the foot surface of shoe which caused a corn.
The bed was shavings. I have not come across this before, but the dust seems to have filled in the spaces
between hoof and shoe and formed a hard mass rather like MDF.

14) Side view.
I know that PNB has a lot of ideas about bedding causing lameness but this is the first time I have come across it.

If you have any photos please send them to admin@ukhsu.com and we will be pleased to put them in the gallery.