Horses competing in dressage competitions are not allowed to wear hoofboots (USEF Rule Book DR121.7 ). They can be shown with horse shoes-- nailed or glued on. They can be Read More
USEF rule DR 121.7 now states that “Shoes with or without cuffs, that are attached with nails or glue, and that do not extend past the hair line of the Read More
This installment will show you pictures of horses in hoof boots for rehab, horses in hoofboots for riding, photos of hoofboots, and a barefoot horse. The photo of the grey mare Read More
The argument, as presented in Parts I,II,and III, is that horses should be allowed to compete in dressage, in removable, light, hoofboots such as Easyboot Gloves, because some horses cannot Read More
In Part IV, we showed the 5 year old Lusitano stallion’s feet which had severe thrush, mangled, decayed frogs, and white line disease—all the result of nailed on shoes and Read More
Part VIThe previous 5 installments pled for hoofboots to be made legal in dressage competition because some horses cannot be shod with nails or glue, yet need some sort of Read More
From here on out, I will show the pictorial saga of a horse’s feet from 2006 until now. The horse’s feet were destroyed by nailed on shoes. In 2006 he Read More
Part VII showed the Feet of Fabio, 7 yr old Westfalen gelding, in July 2006, several months after his nailed on shoes had been removed because of lameness resulting from Read More
By February, 2007, almost 1 year after the shoes were removed due to white line disease, subsolar abscesses, bruising of the walls, hemorrhage in the laminae, black pus coming out Read More
In Part IX, we showed Fabio’s feet, which had finally healed, we thought, in February 2007, now damaged between June 2007 and August 2007 from a stone going through sole Read More
This section shows the results of another year’s worth of trying to find a solution for getting some sort of shoe on the horse, Fabio, so that he could be Read More
My objective in showing the failure of nailed on horseshoes and glued on horseshoes with one particular horse over a period of 7 years is not to disparage any shoeing Read More
The next posts will show what happened to the horse’s feet over 6 more months of attempting to make glue on shoes or nail on shoes work for this horse. Read More
Evolution of Fabio’s foot going from bad to worse over a period of 4 months in glued on shoes, then in nailed on steel heartbar shoes. Front feet and back Read More
The following photos show Fabio’s feet as they are trying to heal from the damage caused to them by the various shoes we had tried since September 2008 (8 months) May Read More
In July 2009, Fabio was going well in the hoofboots, but another farrier suggested a solution for showing might be to glue on the composite shoes, use the hoof packing Read More
Horseshoes were put on Fabio, and finally removed for the last time on August 30, 2009. Since then, he has been left barefoot to rehab his feet. He is worked Read More
The fact that Fabio is 16 months out of shoes and his feet no longer abscess daily, feet no longer are bruised, hoof wall is finally growing, and he is Read More
~~This is Part XIX of my blog post on Hoofboots, Barefoot, and Horseshoes. If you have not read the previous 18 posts, this one might not make sense. So you Read More
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