Using equicast for simple soundness

The few horses I have that just won’t hold a shoe when they get sore have been casted with excellent success.

These horses have been through the therapeutic wringer, so to speak. It is typical for previous farriers (and myself) to have thrown up our hands after a long row of veterinary prescribed glue ons, crazy clips, maybe some huge aluminum things with equipak or something and they are still only barely sound at best.

The cast acts as what should be the natural hoof and shoes can be nailed to the cast if necessary for mechanical or performance needs. The big advantage of casting as opposed to acrylics and urethanes is that horses can still be bathed because the cast breathes and shoes (if pulled in the field or something) can fall off with no problems (like regular shoeing) because no nails penetrate the hooves.