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Monday Mystery 010421
This horseshoe was found near the Celery Farm.
What kind is it? And is that good luck, bad luck, or neutral?
6 comments
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Yes Bar Shoes are commonly used in corrective shoeing, to help support the heels.?
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It’s a bar shoe. They add the bar to the heel, if the hoof needs extra support. Looks like it’s sized for a draft-type. Right now it’s hanging upside down…so not the orientation traditionally associated with horse shoe luck 🙂
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It is a straight bar shoe…probably homemade? It is used as a therapeutic shoe.
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(Heart) Bar? In a “Regular” shoe, with the heel facing up, the luck is supposed to not fall out. In this shoe, the bar prevents the luck from falling out, so I think the answer is: “Neutral”.
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It does not appear to have any opening at the bottom – which would eliminate it as
a recreational horseshoe. -
Tesh, my husband, remembers perhaps for horses who walked on ice in winter.
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6 comments
Ginny
Yes Bar Shoes are commonly used in corrective shoeing, to help support the heels.?
Diane VanKempen
It’s a bar shoe. They add the bar to the heel, if the hoof needs extra support. Looks like it’s sized for a draft-type. Right now it’s hanging upside down…so not the orientation traditionally associated with horse shoe luck 🙂
MARIANNE HERRMANN
It is a straight bar shoe…probably homemade? It is used as a therapeutic shoe.
Diane
(Heart) Bar? In a “Regular” shoe, with the heel facing up, the luck is supposed to not fall out. In this shoe, the bar prevents the luck from falling out, so I think the answer is: “Neutral”.
COOX2
It does not appear to have any opening at the bottom – which would eliminate it as
a recreational horseshoe.
Sally
Tesh, my husband, remembers perhaps for horses who walked on ice in winter.