Team Tucker

Tucker got new shoes today.

The new farrier had a very professional set up and attitude.

The new farrier went with aluminum shoes, rounded his toe and gave him a slight wedge shoe. All seemingly appropriate for his funny front feet according to what my horse friend has been saying all along.

The farrier says that Tucker will be fine as a pleasure horse for many years to come even with his slightly funny front feet. He will work on changing the shape of his feet a bit as we go along but because of Tucker's slightly rotated coffin bone he will need shoes all his life.

Tucker can never be a performance horse but should do great with the riding I am doing which is trail riding and pleasure riding. Suggested I get some bute from the vet in case he looks stiff or sore from being ridden due to his age and shoulders he could have arthritis. I'll talk to my vet about that.

Tucker might be able to go barefoot for the winter or maybe just on his hind feet. We will decide that when the time comes.

Pony is extremely cow hocked and Wiseguy looked pretty good. We will not be doing them until next time.

Seven weeks from now we will be doing the feet again.