Testimonials from farriers

Just thought I'd take a few moments to say I've just used this system for the very first time and tell you how very impressed I was. Not only with the shoes themselves which fitted and went on exactly as described but also with the support of the website and CD - I have never seen this done yet I was easily able to apply the shoes and circumnavigate any forseen problems having been warned by the information you have given, and to adhere to the principles of shoeing a laminitic for both short term comfort and long term recovery.

If there were any things I would have to add to the information you have given, I'd say, make sure electricity is available, and a Dremel is pretty invaluable for preparation, both of which luckily I had to hand when doing this job.

In the nicest possible way, I really hope I never have to use Imprint again - I'm sure you know what I mean - but if circumstances demand, it will be my system of choice from now on.

Many thanks

Graeme Burt DWCF

Nr. Sevenoaks, Kent

(17 April 2008)

I have been shoeing horses for over thirty years and in that time there has been some huge developments in veterinary and farriery knowledge concerning the equine lower limb.  With this extra understanding, I have been involved with many new ideas on the treatment of farriery related problems, some good, and some not so good!

Every now and then something new comes along which you know is going to help out some old problems by giving you another tool in the box, and I believe Andrew Poynton’s thermo-plastic shoe concept is just that something.  We have been using the Imprint products for over two years mostly on laminitic ponies; we only use the shoes on the most severe cases of laminitis, hand in hand with the veterinary profession and have had some excellent results.  There are always disappointments but after all, these are extreme cases, but with the help of owners and vets we have together helped over 90% make a good recovery.

As well as laminitic cases we have used the Imprint shoes for limb correction in young stock, hospital plates for pedal bone injuries, and the thermo-plastic granules for hoof wall repairs, but I feel sure there will be many other uses too.

However there are no cutting corners in farriery, you must fully understand the problem you are dealing with and be able to correctly balance a foot and limb before you apply any shoe, but the pleasure it gives you when the animal recovers cannot be measured.

It is truly a very exciting new product, giving a new dimension in farriery to compliment old practises and it is just these developments which come along now and then, which make this job so inspiring.

Wayne Upton RSS (Hons) AFCL

West Sussex

I tried using some of the Imprint plastic Granules to create a medial heel wedge, and found it very successful. I have gone on to try it on few other horses and had good results, they all returned to being sound. Also used the plastic to make a full wedge on a horse with badly collapsed heels suffering from navicular, as with the others I tied it all in with notches up the side of the hoof wall and in the buttress bars, basically putting plastic where there needed to be hoof, and that one also has returned to being sound.
 

The Imprint Plus are working well for me as well, giving that extra grip which seemed to be one of the few reservations my local vet had.

Dean Bland BA (Hons) DipWCF Hons
Barnsley, South Yorkshire