04/07/2025
Removing Horse Shoes 🔨🐎
At Borambola Valley, we truely believe that every horse owner/person should be able to remove their horse’s shoes without damaging the horse’s hoof wall. 💅
Whilst farriers/hoof care providers have a range of tools to remove shoes including rubber mallet/hammer, clench cutter, nails pullers, shoe pullers etc., it is important as a horse owner to have at least a pair of shoe pullers in the kit at home if your horse wears shoes. 🔨🐴
Having this skill is essentials in cases such as:
🧲 Horse has pulled half the shoe off
🧲 Hoof abscesses or other acute lamenesses
🧲 Veterinary visits
🧲 Sprung heel
🧲 Tight/hot nail
🧲 And brownie points if you remove them for your farrier when they come 💪🏻
In most cases, we hope that your farrier and/or vet can attend to your horse if needed in a timely manner, but in the cases that they can’t (i.e. afterhours, weekends, just before an important event etc.), we believe this is a skill every horse owner should have. 🩺🗓️
Shoutout to vet nurse Tamara, taking off a clients horse shoes ready for some podiatry X-rays and shoeing! 👌🏻🔥
Let me know in the comments below if you’d like some videos of different ways to take shoes off in the coming weeks! 👇👇