wings. The tips of these wings can be fractured.
A common treatment for wing tip fracture and
other P3 fractures is the application of a
continuous rim shoe, or a shoe equipped with
clips near the heels and quarters. Such a shoe
restricts the flexion of the hoof wall, thus
stabilizing the fractured bone within.
Shoeing for fractured P3 tips offers
Hooves of good conformation under otherwise
a chance to test my feeling that many
hoof problems are opportunistic. I have
long felt that what is correctable through
shoeing was caused by shoeing. According
to widely held horseshoeing beliefs long
term fitting of a restrictive shoe and
limiting exercise should produce manifold
hoof problems. I have found this to be so
only when there is a predisposition
to the resulting problem.
healthy horses seem stubbornly resistant to
influences that rapidly exacerbate hoof
problems of poorly conformed hooves.
This validates proactive shoeing.