My horse had laminitis, and icing his hooves in buckets of water was difficult in the winter. I had such high hopes for these! But there were problems: . Really hard to put on. The ice packs have a little velcro to stick them to the inner layer of the boot; the layers of the boots also have velcro. In practice, the ice packs fall out while I tried to get the boot in place, and the velcro stuck to itself in various directions, making the whole thing rather difficult. Add a horse in pain and this was no fun. . The ice packs don't actually even go down to the hoof on my horse. The bottom of the boot holds heat in, quite the opposite of what we wanted. . Then my horse stepped on one of the ice packs and it broke open. Then that happened again. Both times within about two weeks of use. UGH. I ended up returning these and using variously sized- and shaped ice packs with velcro. Much easier to put on and better placement possible.

I purchased this for my horse that foundered as he would not keep his foot consistently in an ice bath. This product has made icing him so much easier and I don't have to ask people to babysit him in an ice bucket when I can't be there. We've left it in place for up to an hour. He's been very good about wearing it.

This boot is good to ice the hoof wall. It is large however so can be cumbersome to use.

I've used these boots religiously twice per day for the past 4 months and they have been a life saver!! After getting special shoes & pads on to help with laminitis, I was no longer able to use ice water to treat my horse's feet (as he couldn't get his feet wet anymore). I gave the big black boots a try and they have worked like a charm. Easy to use and EXTREMELY durable (already used over 240 times and are still going strong..). I've had to replace the ice packs a number of times already, but that's to be expected with so much use (and is still probably cheaper than buying bags of ice every day). I would highly recommend these to anyone who has a horse with sore feet!