Shoeing

Question 1

What tools are required to remove a shoe

Answer 1

Buffer and claw hammer
Pincers
Nail pullers

Question 2

What tools are required to dress a foot?

Answer 2

Hoof cutters
Drawing knife
Rasp

Question 3

What tools are required to fit a new shoe

Answer 3

Pritchel (hot shod)
Claw hammer
Nails

Question 4

What tools are required to finish off a shoeing?

Answer 4

Rasp
Clenching tool
Hammer
Tripod

Question 5

Why might a horse wear pads

Answer 5

Protection - puncture, thin sole, bruised sole
Reduce concussion
Alter foot balance - heel wedge

Question 6

What metal is used in road nails and studs?

Answer 6

Tungsten carbide

Question 7

What are the disadvantages to using studs?

Answer 7

Difficult to put in
Strain the horn
Injury

Question 8

What shoe would you use for ruptured or strained ligaments and tendons?

Answer 8

Wedge or raised heels

Heel extensions

Question 9

What shoe would you use for laminitis?

Answer 9

None
Egg bar
Heart bar

Question 10

What shoe would you use for corns?

Answer 10

Egg bar

Drop healed shoe

Question 11

What shoe would you use for navicular disease?

Answer 11

Egg bar with rolled toe

Raised heel with rolled toe

Question 12

What shoe would you use for bone spavin?

Answer 12

Wedge heel and rolled toe

Question 13

Which ailments are concussion related?

Answer 13

Bruised sole
Navicular
Sidebone
Pedalostitis - pedal bone inflammation

Question 14

Positive and negative of “barefoot trimming”

Answer 14

"Natural"
Prevents corns and injury of misfitting
Cheaper
But
Professional person?
No option of studs
Sudden change

Question 15

What might you use a rolled toe shoe for

Answer 15

To reduce stumbling

To reduce overreaching

Question 16

What is a seated out shoe

Answer 16

A shoe that is thickest on the outside portion, reducing the area of weight bearing to the wall and reducing the pressure on the sole, so useful in flat footed horses

Question 17

What types of shoe can be used in horses that brush

Answer 17

Three quarter shoe
Knocked up shoe
Feather edge shoe
Knocked down shoe

Question 18

Describe a feather edge shoe

Answer 18

The inside branch is narrow, often without nails, that tapes to the heel

Question 19

Wha shoe is used in ponies that speedicut (strike their cannon bone and tendons with hind leg)

Answer 19

Front quarter of shoe cut away

Question 20

How to shoe a horse that forges

Answer 20

A rocker/rolled shoe on the front t Austen break over, the hindshoe is squared and set back with the horn rounded.
The hind heels are lowered with a longer branch which slows the breakover

Question 21

What is a diamond toe shoe used for

Answer 21

Horses that forge to one side of the front feet

Question 22

What can wedge heel shoes be used in

Answer 22

Horses with spavin, to relieve pressure on the tendons and navicular bone

Question 23

What is the difference between a straight bar and an oval

Answer 23

The oval bar protrudes beyond the bulbs and does not touch the frog

Question 24

What are the functions of bar shoes

Answer 24

Corns
Navicular
Relieved tendons
Laminitis

Question 25

What is a heart bar used for | What is the danger involved

Answer 25

Laminitis cases | Requires x ray to prevent putting pressure on the pedal bone

Question 26

When and how would a pattern bar be used

Answer 26

In severe tendon injuries under box rest for less than 3 weeks to prevent tendon contraction

Question 27

How does a swan necked shoe work

Answer 27

A fetlock support shoe in digital flexor tendon rupture

Question 28

Why are rocker bar shoes no longer used

Answer 28

Used to be used in ringbone, but medical guidance is now to rest the horse

Question 29

Why are T bar shoes (also known as corn shoes) not often used

Answer 29

Doesn't protect seat of corn and can create a pressure point

Question 30

How do set heeled shoes protect corns

Answer 30

The shoe makes contact with the horn, but does not make contact with the floor protecting the corn

Question 31

What are the negatives of a shoe with a dropped heel

Answer 31

Takes the pressure of the corn but there is a gap between the horn and the shoe that can fill with dirt and leads to a pressure point

Question 32

When might you use a glue on shoe

Answer 32

Foals with limb deformities and horses with poor feet that can't stand nails

Question 33

What has started to replace heeled shoes in reducing tendon and navicular pressure

Answer 33

Heel extensions

Question 34

What extensions can be used in foal limb deformities

Answer 34

Toe extensions - rapid bone growth (increase tendon pressure) Lateral and medial extensions, either reduce or increase the distance between limbs