I do not know of any glue-on that would serve the purpose you need. So, if you’ve got a horse with good feet, try some Durasole and just hunt barefoot. Swelling went down, forging stopped and thanks to the Durasole and some careful attention to her trim schedule (or lack thereof ) she’s been knock on wood foot perfect since. I pulled her shoes after 2 weeks of that nonsense and never looked back. She moved like crap in shoes, forging (she never forges barefoot) and her legs would be stocked up after the hunts. The past two seasons I’ve used Durasole and kept the trimming to a minimum and she has been just fine (even better actually) hunting barefoot. Glue on boots I have thought of, but cannot try as my horse is a size 4 in steel shoes (6圆" foot) and they don’t make one that would fit her. If you’re going to shoe, steel is probably the way to go for a horse with a normal healthy hoof. In my opinion, they are much too expensive to use on a horse that doesn’t need them for therapuetic reasons. I wouldn’t trust a glue on shoe unless it had a couple nails in it too. I personally wouldn’t ever hunt in boots, same reaction as TimelyImpulse.Įarly on, I felt the need to try hunting in boots. In hunting, your horse is truly your partner for staying with hounds and keeping you out of the hospital- and while there aren’t any guarantees, I do all I can to ensure their comfort and well being ahead of my own.
I don’t want to go down the ‘hot button for discussion’ path on shoes, but my own personal feeling is, conventional shoes (with borium and snow pads when warranted) do the best job of protecting my horses against all possible eventualities when going hard for 4+ hours on a hunting day, including galloping on paved roads, or rocky mountain trails, for example. When I was hunting back east 2-3 days a week, every horse got shoes save the old mare who packed the kids beginning when she was 26 years old. I’ve hunted one horse barefoot, in an area where I knew ‘most’ of the footing was soft sandy desert floor (but which meant ‘not’ going over the mountain on one run, I just won’t do that to a horse w/o shoes all around).
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