Hoof boots!

I was looking forward to choosing hoof boots for the girls. The only kind of shopping for myself that I like is shoe shopping - and I'd kind of imagined it would be a bit similar. It was at first - I drooled over the wide range available on the internet. But reality soon hit...

The boots that I found information on all included: all types of easyboots, old mac original and G2, marquis supergrip, renegades, cavallos and boas, my farrier also told me about hoofwings. It soon became apparent though that it wasn't a case of just choosing some you fancy, different types are more or less suitable for different shaped feet and some are difficult to get in the UK. At least, we found it so. From our rough and ready measurings we came to the conclusion that we could probably rule out all types of easyboots as they are only suitable for hooves that are longer than they are wide. This was disappointing as the easyboot gloves were the ones I was really starting to fancy.

We decided that we would have their feet measured by 'the barefoot man' when we had the front shoes removed as neither of us were confident that we could measure them correctly. So... we waited for the barefoot man to come and remove the front shoes. Some of you may be able to spot the small flaw in this plan.

Once the feet had been measured properly by someone competent with a ruler we sat down to work out which boots would be best. Result - very few. Both horses do have feet wider than they are long and Jazz also has one foot bigger than the other, great.

So this was the list:
All types of easyboots: No (don't fit wider than long hooves)
Boas: No (I used to ride Jazz in these and found them lethal on wet grass)
Renegades: (A possibility but we can't currently find a UK supplier and feel we need advice for these)
Old mac: No - too wide!
Old mac G2: A possiblity for Jazz, advice from a supplier of boots was that these would be best
Cavallos: A possiblity
Marquis supergrip: Decided against after reading negative posts on internet
Hoofwings: The best bet as custom made BUT take six weeks to arrive and in Jazz's case she would have to have 'special moulds' for her odd sized feet which would double the price!