eva_hayes•22d agoProlific Poster

I actually like the older shoeing approach over the modern ones

Been working with horses for about 15 years now, and I see a lot of new farriers jumping on these glue-on shoes and plastic pads. A few months back at a clinic in Ohio, I watched a young guy struggle for 20 minutes with a glue-on shoe while I could have nailed a standard steel shoe in 5 minutes flat. The before-and-after difference I noticed was that the glue-on shoe popped off after two weeks, but the steel shoe stayed solid for six weeks on the same horse. I get that technology changes, but why are we making simple jobs harder than they need to be?

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charlesb4222d ago

And that clinic story is exactly why I'm skeptical too. I watched a guy spend half an hour heating and molding some composite pad, trying to get it to fit just right, when a simple rolled toe steel shoe would have been on and fitted in under ten minutes. The problem is these new methods fix things that weren't broken to begin with, and they introduce a whole new set of failure points like glue drying out or the horse reacting to the chemicals. Not to mention the extra cost for materials that don't last half as long as what we've been using for a hundred years.

logan26321d ago

Used a heat gun on mine, way quicker and less fuss (plus the horse didn't care).