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Does anyone have experience with glue on shoes?
 
#2 ·
My friend use to use them as they where cheap and easy to use. However they did not last. She started to ride more then what the shoes could handle. Most of them can only handle light work on soft arena. They would also come off sometimes when she went into water. The only reason why she used them was her mare would get bad infections all the time from the nails. I know they do better in dryer areas. However it does depend on the farrier that puts them on. Now she uses hoof boots.
 
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My horse uses an aluminum wedge but his feet have crumbled apart this year (It happened last year as well). He lost a shoe tonight, my farrier came out and said there is nothing left to nail a shoe to so they are going to come out sometime this week and glue a shoe on. My horse can't go barefoot without being lame... :(
 
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I'm in the same boat completely. My horse's feet have just fallen apart this spring, nails falling out and shoes coming loose, being thrown and so on. For us, I think the weather being strange is part of it and the other part is simply poor feet all around. We're trying a new hoof supplement now...One of the horses at my farm had the same issue with his feet falling apart and had to have shoes glued on for a few reset rotations. His feet are just fine now.

I don't have any experience personally with glue-ons as of yet but it seems to be a totally viable option to nailing the shoes on. I'm banking on us having to glue hind shoes on by next trim and I have no reservations about doing it.
 
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They can't wear hoof boots all the time. I'd love to let him go barefoot for a while but he'll get sore. His feet looked so awesome all winter but every year the summer comes and the hoofs crumble.

I have not seen these glue-on shoes yet but he described them to me, said they are metal but not as thick as his wedges and the have this lip that glues onto the outside of the hoof?
 
#6 ·
It really depends on the type of glue on shoe you want. I've only ever had experience with sigafoos and they're fabulous, but pricey. We used the Elite Flat (Elite Flat Glue On Horseshoes by Sound Horse Technologies). You had to be careful about turning the horse out in muddy/wet conditions, but otherwise they held up really well and really made a difference to the horse that needed them. His feet were atrocious and he could not hold a regular horse shoe. He competed through Advanced level eventing with them.

ETA: He also got equipac though which definitely affected the price, now that I think about it. I don't know what the shoes cost was individually, but to get him shod total it was around $250-$300. Our farrier is also the USET farrier which bumped the price up, I'm sure.
 
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Let us know how it goes. Any idea why his hoof crumbles?
I'm not sure. He's on hoof supplements and I keep them clean but my paddock can get really wet sometimes and I have a feeling that has something to do with it. My farrier said that because he's in an aluminum shoe, that is part of it as well because aluminum will hold the moisture. He will also over reach and step on the back of the shoe and pull it off, which is why he lives in bell boots but those dang things only last about a month and then he rips them. I just ordered 5 sets for back up.

All of my other horses have great hoofs. Rarely even chip. Last summer I dealt with abscess after abscess with this guy but since I switched farriers he's been sound and abscess free. He actually held his shoes really well until this month....
 
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Took me a while to find a link- i saw these in one of the horse magazines i was readin.. thought it was interesting they could be rasped and glued on to have the correct break in the horses step.. FAQ - Happy Hoofwear

They can be glued on too and used with a wedge pad.. list of faqs^
 
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Took me a while to find a link- i saw these in one of the horse magazines i was readin.. thought it was interesting they could be rasped and glued on to have the correct break in the horses step.. FAQ - Happy Hoofwear

They can be glued on too and used with a wedge pad.. list of faqs^
I have someone that used the shoes. Let me tell you they are junk. They dont last at all. Ya if your horse is standing around and not doing much they are ok. But still they need to be nailed on and they dont have back shoes for happy hoofwear. Also because of the bar that goes across the butt of the frog does not allow much movement for the frog that it needs.

Do you know how much biotin your horse is getting?
 
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Wow. Ok, the iron comment got me. We just had a new system put in at hour house because the iron content was so high the system we had could not maintain it. The new system has been in for about a month now. I wonder if that is part of it?

As for the biotin, I'm not sure. I had him on the farriers choice supplement but last time I went to tractor supply, I grabbed the Dumar brand because it's cheaper.

He gets Smartcalm, Smartflex, and Smartsox already, should I had smarthoof isntead of the other stuff? Here are the ingredients:

IngredientPer ServingPer PoundGuaranteed Analysis per 30 g Crude Protein (Min)21% L-Lysine3.9% (1,130 mg) DL-Methionine8.8% (2,500 mg) L-Threonine0.2% (70 mg) Crude Fat (Min)10% Crude Fiber (Max)8.4% Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)20 mg Biotin20 mg Magnesium180 mg Copper100 mg Zinc150 mg Direct Fed Microbials250 Million CFU
 
#16 ·
That happy wear stuff looks like do-it-yourself shoes! LOL... He's coming tomorrow to put them on, I'm very curious to see the results. I did talk to a friend that had to use them on an OTTB for about a half a year. She said the shoes did come off once but that for the most part she was very happy with them and even showed in them over fences w/out any issues. Once the hoof got to a healthy state she pulled them and let the horse go barefoot...

I geuss we shall see?
 
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Does anyone know how long it will take to put the shoes on? I was thinking I'll stall him at night from now on as well... and on rainy days?
 
#18 ·
The magical horse shoes are on. They were $150 but they are pretty neat. They are aluminum and the glue on to the bottom and have this fabric type mesh that gets glued onto the outside of the hoof w/ some type of acrylic adhesive. They look really good. I will try to get a picture of them.
 
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I cant wait for pictures. :thumbsup: glue on fabric mesh- fiberglass?

What did the farrier say about moisture and all? I know they fiberglass boats and all kinda water crafts-- cant be that water soluble.. i wouldnt worry about it that much- unless the horse was standin in straight mud or somethin.
 
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If I were you, Id test the water/hay the horse is getting and do the math on the iron in his diet so you can properly balance it with copper and zinc. Be worth knowing just how bad the imbalance is.
After the earthquake the water got a little iron in it and then it just went from bad to worse. When the guy came out he told me it was off the charts. It turned my hair, clothes, and tubs orange. We've since gotten a new system and all is well. (The system has been in for about a month).
 
#21 ·
I want to see pictures too.

My farrier won't do plastic shoes (said he'll do plastic ones once someone gifts him with a plastic anvil to go with.....) but he's done glue-ons and hates them.

We stuck a shoe on my guy with the bare minimum of nails (he ripped off most of his hoof) and then filled the whole foot with Equicast. That took FOREVER to dry but his shoe stayed on!
 
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We used Sound Horse Technology products on my guy on one hoof (his one foot crumbled away 3 weeks after shoeing). It wasn't entirely glue on, we put in a couple nails where we could and I don't think he glued the bottom. He put the Poly-Vectran mesh on the outside with the Equacrylic adhesive so that it made a pseudo hoof wall to put the other nails through. Seems to be working, it should be interesting to see the results. Right now this is a sort of trial thing for me, I'm ready to try almost anything. We're considering trying completely glue on shoes to get him through this competition season - I'll update if we go that route next shoeing.
 
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farmpony I'm pretty sure that your wet paddock has a LOT to do with it. I took my little Amish farrier seriously and made sure that I keep my current horses, who DON'T have any real hoof problems, feet dry at least 1/2 of the day, and he has noticed they are in better condition. My QH, "Ro Go Bar" had bad feet, too, and wet conditions made it worse bc they dry the hoof out...like dishwater dries our hands out. We almost couldn't reshoe when in the Black Hills, SD, he threw a shoe riding on shale. He wore down so much heel, it was really iffy.
 
#25 ·
I'm curious as I've looked into this but never spoken to anyone who's tried them. I have 1 horse in 5 that has to be shod all the time like yours OP, all kept the same, on the same ground etc and the others have super strong feet, the mare I bought last year who'd never been barefoot and had really poor cracked feet is now great
As soon as my Irish Draft gets on hard ground - ice in winter - her feet break up and she's lame
 
#26 ·
Well.....

I got the shoes on Tuesday and today is Thursday. I hauled out to a 4 day horse show this morning and five minutes into my lunge... one of my magical shoes fell off. I did find a farrier at the show and he put a new aluminum wedge on w/ nails and then rebuilt the hoof walls on the sides w/ a glue and then added more nails. The front is chipped a little but he left that because he said it looked like it had a little bacteria in it and he didn't want to lock that in.

The other magical shoe looks shifty to me so I think tomorrow I will have it removed and the new one put on. I'll take pictures tomorrow morning of both shoes so you can see the two different versions of glue. The first version does look very much like the above link. The new one is just glue and shoe w/ some nails.

I don't even know what this is going to cost. He didn't bill me today because he wanted to see how magical shoe number two held up. Before I left this afternoon he told me to come see him in the morning......
 
#28 ·
My horse lost shoes left and right when his feet got wet too often. I had him on farriers formula for a while, but didn't have any success with it. I switched him to SmartHoof and had major improvements. I kept him out of wet footing as much as possible and only hosed him or gave him a bath once a week. I also applied hoof hardener two to three times a week. Once I started doing all of that, his feet were great!
 
#30 ·
I would have been tempted to ask the farrier who glued them on, for an extra batch of glue in case they fell off! Either that or duct tape, (used duct tape before, worked too!).
 
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