Attended a clinic this weekend with Rob Renirie and Hans Castelijns north of me. It's focus was on comfort shoeing. On Saturday we had some class room presentations and watched Hans work on a foal. Hans and Rob also gave some forging demonstrations on modifying keg shoes and others worked on them as well. On Sunday a horse was evaluated. It had a quarter crack on the left front, medial heel. A vet was on site with portable x-ray. After an exam it was discovered P3 had sunk on the medial side, something the farrier couldn't have known. It was evident the medial heel was jammed, but from what? Hoof wall were measured and they were found to be even. What was done, Hans shod the foot with a #2 Combi - Colleoni shoe. Instead of trimming the hoof to leave space for the medial side to drop down, Hans took the space needed from the shoe. Because the Colleoni shoes are thick enough, it was possible. This was because of the sinking of the medial side of P3. Jan, who arranged the clinic, took lots of pics and they will probably be posted on his facebook page. It was a good time with some great farriers to learn from. Hans is shaping the Colleoni shoe to be applied. https://www.facebook.com/beslagsmeden.dk?fref=ts
Thanks for the info and photo's Mikel, that would have been an interesting day to attend. How did he alter that shoe? I didn't think it would be possible to alter one? How much did he set the shoe down and how did he do it grinder or hammer on the edge of the anvil.
He started at about the first nail hole, hammering down. By the time he got to the heel he had lowered by about 4-5mm. By hammering down this allowed the alum to expand a bit because he said he needed the expansion as the hoof settled, it would also widen.
Yes, was great. Hans supervised the vet in the taking of the x-rays so he got exactly what he needed. He had a full range of views.
Hans, as well as a farrier is also a vet. I think she (the vet attending) also learned a lot about taking pics, which was good.
That would be great thanks. It will be interesting to see if the proximal phalanx is of equal length medially laterally.
One of the guys attending took some good pics posted on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.p...261.1073741826.115291215197128&type=1&theater Still waiting for Jan to send me the x-ray pics.
