Horseshoeing for Navicular Disease

[@debbiehattan890]

Wow! We need you in the USA. This is one of the best farriery videos I’ve ever seen. Thank you for the beautifully demonstrated information.

[@zachsawyer9038]

Very educating, I enjoy how in depth you are with explanations on what you're doing and why you're doing it.

[@pipr5070]

The difference between the previous job and yours is huge. You’ve done a perfect job

[@Livmyt]

My life has nothing to do with horses but this is fascinating video! Well filmed and well edited!

[@AlexRidgewayFarrier]

Livena Tso thank you, I love it when people find my videos from non horsey background and find them still an interesting watch 😁👌🐎

[@marlboroman2393]

Well i have an exam tomorrow here at oklahoma horseshoeing school.

[@karid.4371]

After watching all of these different hoof care videos I now understand why my parents would never let me get a horse as a kid.. owning a horse is a huge responsibility and you need to know what your getting into.. I ended up with a beagle. LOL.

[@bandmastertales338]

They are a HUGE responsibility and knowledge is best, but not all horses have the issue this horse has (navicular) so not all need remedial shoeing or even shoes at all! But it's better to know what could happen also.

[@juanhuerta9661]

Good choice by your parents! Owning a horse can be incredibly expensive

[@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws]

Fantastic and very educational. I know a little about navicular but this has really showed me what can be done to help the horse. I am really glad I found your channel.

[@anneball683]

I really like yur close up camera views. Soooo cool. Luv all you explain. And how much yur skill helps the horse.

[@kennethconnors5316]

you have more skill than many I have watched before , nice work

[@CanadianCowgirl1955]

Just watched again. Thank you so much for sharing. If ONLY I could find a farrier that could/would shoe like this.

[@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws]

Yes I have the strong feeling that many of the Farriers I see just aren't this knowledgeable (or maybe they are but hiding it well lol!)

[@turnburn5018]

I’m in California and travel. Turn & Burn Farrier Services

[@judymiller5154]

​@@turnburn5018 where in CA?? I'm near Yosemite and desperate!

[@jeangar7]

@@judymiller5154 I’m in Los Angeles.

[@judymiller5154]

@@jeangar7 oh darn, bit of a drive from Mariposa every 6 weeks. 😢 Do you have any contacts, maybe I5 between Fresno and Turlock? I'm 77 and trimming my mare myself out of desperation.

[@dwatkins7272]

Greetings! Excellent shod in my opinion. Enjoy every video that you make.

[@jamiepennock546]

Amazing job! Wish I could find someone as skilled and knowledgeable as you are :)

[@Shadeskast]

Fantastic!! Well shod horse and well produced video. Fine job! 👍👍👍.

[@russelledwardsedwards144]

Ive had good luck using a NBS and packing the entire heel area with impression material and pad. I make the horse land on the back of the hoof with every step and cut the toe back as far as possible and pull the breakover back . cant use a toe clip the way i do it but ive had horses that were gonna be put down the're so lame but riding them now so its worked pretty well.

[@merle8664]

This video is so nice! Your explanations are great! Thanks for that content

[@jessebills5386]

Very nice work love the shoe mechanics.

[@AlexRidgewayFarrier]

Thanks Jesse, appreciate the feedback 👍😁

[@Open2OpenUT]

Very enjoyable, informative video. Hope you follow up with her to see how she gets on. 👍

[@jamalh1664]

Excellent job sir ! Amazing work and very well edited video.

[@briancotgrove8480]

Very nice work, very educational, thank you very much.

[@jedpedley9635]

What a fantastic video thank you! So informative 👏

[@peteacher52]

From someone whose teaching career (retired) has never included horses, it is revealing to realise that a good farrier requires a knowledge of physics, biology and a bit of chemistry as well as a natural way with horses to do the job well. I'd want nothing to do with the racing fraternity - too many critical "experts" giving their tuppence worth of advice.

[@clayshelton]

Great video. Thank you!

[@teresabrown4457]

Suggestions for best practice shoeing for horse over-at-the-knee, 'paddling' at the trot on that leg and a broken forward HPA?

[@JR-hu6nu]

Nice work !!! But why didn't you show the horse walking after the new shoeing?

[@SeclusiveFortune]

Great work Alex. Very nice looking job. Only thing I would add is that I would have tried to bring the front heel length back a little more. Maybe 1/4" or to be real aggressive and go 3/8", of course if I could get away with it. Don't want a pulled shoe but I am always one to try to get as close as I can to the back of the heels to prevent more underrun and give added support. Just my 2 cents. Again Great Job!

[@comesahorseman]

Agreed, I'd want the heels a tad farther back also.

[@woogaboogawiththegreenteet8436]

well done sir,thank you for the demonstration

[@josephmedlow536]

Looks real good, thanks.

[@horse3357]

I learned a lot Thanks

[@MarkWard-ev2pk]

hey i know you probably wont see this but i have a sports horse with a rather bad case of thrush (hoof rot) and was wondering what treatments you would advise. nmothjing seams to be helping!!!

[@joannasott5675]

that tissue hanging off the back as you put it is the cartilage much overlooked in hoof care!.nice job to sensitively shoe this heel less horse however the focus needs to be to bring heels in..wall bulbs and fog corium which can work with this corrective shoeing but you are taking heel off

[@anneball683]

Can owner feed to promote healthy. Hoof growth

[@KmRessler]

Is there a reason you put the nails up so high in the foot? Our farrier usually puts them fairly low, his reasoning being if they are going to take the shoe off, they won't take their whole foot with it. My horse thinks its his job to take shoes off and I wonder if maybe his nails need to go a little further up in the foot for a bit more of a secure hold?

[@harryspinksfarrier4412]

The higher the nail the more likely it is that the shoe will stay on as you don't have the tendency for the nail to pull through the foot.

[@SouthFLFarrierShorts]

Proper nailing should be at least 1/3 of the hoof wall.

[@justanotherAA]

Great video! Look forward to more.

[@paigethefarrier6243]

I noticed your knuckles are super red. Is that from swelling? Mine get like that too and my hands get stuck like claws in the morning since I started shoeing a few years ago

[@comesahorseman]

Trim to a more natural angle (shorten the toe), roll or square the toe, bevel the shoe heels for wider support, lengthen the shoe heel to a tad beyond the hoof heel to encourage the heel to grow a little straighter. You've formed what I call a "rocker" shoe. Well done! 😊 I apologize if I rattle on...I work with Standardbreds, and shoeing is a big part of managing them. Subbed.

[@VanderleySantos]

Gostei,valeu tudo de bom para você.

[@kathyraidt16]

Thanks for explaining everything.

[@jimheckert5383]

Thanks. What a great job.

[@westcoastfrisco]

Nice job Alex.

[@sheilatannehill2569]

Very nice. Thanks for the vid.

[@jasonabernethy2778]

Awesome job

[@marcianohernandez3556]

Myron McLane full support pads i recommended

[@charliehill9187]

Alex enjoyed your video. Where are you located

[@secret_gate]

great work，nice

[@ji-yoojeong5734]

I have a 11 month old welsh sec D and he’s very weary of his legs being touched as a person tried to do leg stretched with him and he panicked and is now very nervous he also could just about let me pick out his front feet but now he’s very unbalanced and can pick them up for a couple of seconds he’s only been handled for 5 months do you know what could help

[@ji-yoojeong5734]

He’s also seeing the farrier for the first time end of April

[@cryptobirddog334]

TYVM 👍

[@visenna9]

it would be good to use shoes with side clips on this horse (we often modify hind horseshoes) - it would allow to back those foot much more than with toe clips. we also almost always use pads under shoes in navicular horses for shock absorption (ideal would be sth. like polyflex horseshoes, but it's problematic in Poland)

[@AlexRidgewayFarrier]

visenna9 interesting and thank you for your thoughts. With this horses I feel sides clips. although great for securing the shoe and offering slightly more options in regards to overall shoe placement,, with the excessive toe in conformation that this horse has, it becomes difficult to not exaggerate the aesthetics of that conformation with side clip shoes. I’d rather opt for unclipped shoes if toe clips were not an option. As you can see in the video I was able to restore the overall hoof geometry and with the considerations made in the shoe I don’t feel fitting the toe further back would of been of any benefit to this particular horse. Yes I certainly agree with reducing shock absorption through the use of pads or packing. I’m yet to explore polyflex shoes but have been following Curtis Burns and some of his document cases with them and find them very interesting 👍😄

[@visenna9]

Yes, horseshoe without clips would be a good option too. The geometry looks great after fitting. I also absolutely agree with not using angled pads again and a big breakover. Also very nice high frog, most our navicular cases like a lot of frog ground contact. Interesting idea with rolling the heels of shoe, I wonder how it would affect his disease and comfort in the future. All urethane shoes are quite interesting (unfortunatelly most are hard to get in my country). Although I'm a bit reluctant to the thick ones (just like to most aluminium shoes). Maybe with frog support, sole pads or silicone. Thats why polyflex are the most convincing for me - thin like a raceshoes. In Poland we also have shoes with build-in round plastic pads, easier to use, although they can be fitted only cold.

[@JNacoustic]

@@AlexRidgewayFarrier Im not sure that's entirely true. Your shoe fit goals through the quarters should not be altered by side clipped shoes. It's not as if you setting the shoe under the medial aspect. A flush fit to the medial wall with a side clipped shoe is certainly not an intensive task, we've got heat and knife or rasp to sufficiantly bury the clip flush. It's quite ruitine. Depending on how the horse engages the ground, and the current stable fly sittuation the sheering forces may not even be factor worth clipping for (as you've said), but side clips when applied correctly shouldnt alter your fit.

[@horsefarrierhathisingh5214]

Nice sar

[@comesahorseman]

👍👍

[@leandrocorrea4919]

Parabens eu gostei muinto bom

[@mltHorseCrazE]

2 mins into this video i was lookinf at the hoof and think he has been incorrectly shoed and trimmed for his entire life. Like shoes have cause the navicular

[@judymiller5154]

exactly! Same here. Now know its not a death sentence and trying to rehab my mare

[@redstaterebelss4271]

Great content thanks for sharring PS you need to get a hoofstand and save your knees and back you will pay later in life if you dont cherrs

[@letfreedomring6273]

💯👍🙏👏🏻❤️

[@larryculiver1690]

Why not used wedged aluminum lighten up the load and pick up the heels a little

[@AlexRidgewayFarrier]

Graduated shoe would cause a prolonged period of loading upon the heels as the centre of pressure and its forward trajectory is delayed.

[@SouthFLFarrierShorts]

Then he’d have to cover the frog with a pad or some type of cushioning material to utilize the frogs shock absorbing abilities, trapping the sole underneath, which he explained early on actually causes it to become retained sole and lose flexibility when it can shed off on its own.

[@sabersaberi7575]

if you look 14 min and 13 seconds your film .

[@faifung2464]

受教了

[@AlexRidgewayFarrier]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@faifung2464]

謝謝你，愛好策騎者都希望自己愛駒一切正常。

[@hargersadventures]

Horses wouldn't have navicular disease if the farriers trimmed correctly and stopped putting shoes on horses.

[@sabersaberi7575]

the horse weight must be on horseshoe but the weight is on nail head .because nailhead is heigher than horseshoe.

[@AlexRidgewayFarrier]

That will last all of 10 minutes or until the horse trots down the road then the nail heads will be gone

[@bmc06239]

Alex...are you kidding me ? Not even sure where to begin..but I will say this (16:47) do you always place nails in the toe pillars? Because it looks like you struck P3 growth corium. Is there a follow-up ?

[@SouthFLFarrierShorts]

bmc06239 do you have an anatomical reason for not utilizing the toe nails?

[@biddydibdab9180]

Don’t ever do this to your horse if you want it to survive. No wedges!! Find a good barefoot farrier and you will give it a chance.

[@SouthFLFarrierShorts]

Bold statement, can you elaborate on your comment?

[@biddydibdab9180]

Earl Ellerbee, CJF Wedges are a slippery slope that doesn’t fix the problem but leads to more and more extreme wedges until the horse is eventually euthanized. Check out the work of Dr. Robert Bowker of Michigan State University for indepth, cutting-edge work on the mechanics of soundness in horses. There IS hope but it’s not to be found in wedges.

[@SouthFLFarrierShorts]

As an American Farrier’s Association Certified Journeyman Farrier, it’s been my experience that using a wedge in a therapeutic application for a limited time can be extremely helpful in treating several issues associated with the equine digit. I concur that long term use CAN be detrimental if the application isn’t correct and consistent with intermittent veterinarian check ups for progress. Not all wedging is bad and neither is shoeing, when done correctly. Thank you for your clarification and cite material.

[@biddydibdab9180]

Earl Ellerbee, CJF I was a farrier for over 50 years (now retired for 9 years) and have seen atrocious handling of lameness as you probably have. The key to any success, as you mentioned, would be working with a RESPONSIBLE veterinarian and knowing when to change the treatment plan. Most veterinarians are generalists who know very little about what constitutes a sound hoof and I’ve found they generally defer to the farrier. If a client can afford top care, I can see some success but many horse owners are looking for a bargain and a quick fix to the detriment of the horse. If that’s the case, I stand by my original assertion that a great barefoot trim is the horse’s best chance. Good luck in your career - it’s a grand one.