Not sure. I got a call that I had a patten shoe off that's been on layup. Turns out they started turning him out with it on. I told the trainer to have her regular shoer make up a field patten bar because the one he has on is only a resting patten bar.
I was envisioning something with a plate from the toe to the heels so the horse wouldn't sink in the ground or snag the bar. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using Tapatalk 2
If a horse looses a patton bar shoe in turn out something is wrong. If the turnout is big enough that the shoe cannot be found, something is REALLY wrong.
A friend of mine came up with one she uses for turnout; she just welds a piece of pipe to the heels. I think she used about 1 1/4" galvanized. Yes, I/she knows it's supposed to be a stall rest only shoe, but the horse gets along fine with it out in the pasture, hasn't managed to get it hung up on anything, and the horse is much happier and able to move. She applied it to a horse with DDFT disease.
