What to Do With a Twisted Off Shoe: A Horse Owner’s Guide

This is an excerpt of an article we wrote for Equine Online:

As horse owners, we are constantly doing our best to ensure our horses are living a healthy, happy life. Despite everything we do however, they always manage to find a way to get themselves in to trouble!

When things go wrong, as a responsible horse owner, we need to be able to act quickly and efficiently to the problem at hand.

Today we are going to take a look at how best to deal with a twisted off shoe. If you have any advice from a personal experience, please feel free to leave a comment below.

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Written by James Watts

Editor of PetSci. When I'm not writing, learning, discussing, or reading about animals, you know it's the weekend!
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