Haize contracting

12/04/2025

👌 deep central sulcus thrush control

05/04/2025

I'll just leave this here 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

09/03/2025

The remedy is a strong, waterproof, and flexible boot perfect for soaking and ice therapy. The Easyboot Remedy is a short boot perfect for soaking the hooves up to halfway up the canon bone on most horses.

Sold individually

The Easyboot Remedy is designed to hold liquid while a horse is standing still. It should fit loosely. The boot should be easy to slip on and off, and there should be extra space around the hoof to allow cold water and ice to contact all sides of the hoof and lower leg.

To purchase visit https://www.hoofbootsaustralia.com.au/shop/item/easyboot-remedy-new/easyboot-remedy-new

08/03/2025

06/03/2025

The amount of lamanitic rings I see in horses feet coming off the wet in Katherine and Darwin is astonishing.

Once upon a time, I finished feet like you see in the top picture. It’s the icing on the cake and makes it look like a clean, tidy, professional job. Some may not care but in the sport horse world, aesthetics tend to matter to some.

My problem with this finish is that it’s void of vital information.

The photo on the bottom makes me feel like I didn’t do a good enough job with the finish. It feels incomplete and sloppy to me.

BUT, what you see in this photo provides critical information.

This horse was otherwise sound and competing. There were no major complaints or lameness. However, the hoof quality started to change a bit when it had been really solid for 6 months and the ever so slight but there growth rings are there. Which, had I buffed that all away, we never would have seen the warning signs.

I was able to share with my client the value of why I finish a foot the way I do now and advise the person to look into the diet and possible bloodwork based on hoof wall quality and those event lines.

Long story short, the news was shared with me that bloodwork was done on a hunch and the horse has a high insulin level.

This is EXACTLY why I don’t dress the hooves. We likely saved this horse from suffering a full blown laminitic episode.

And she isn’t the first one that the hoof was telling us there was an underlying issue when everything else seemed “fine”. My clients have been able to make adjustments to diet or check bloodwork on several other horses when things like this appear.

In the sport performance world (for all horses), this is one small change that can make a world of difference.

I will live with my job looking a little less tidy or professional because I know the value of this information and just how much we can help the horse sooner.

05/03/2025

X does not mark the spot c'mon guys resect them properly ffs
Resected and treated with Grooms hand USA (aersol thrushbuster)

01/03/2025

24/01/2025

Possibly open to holding some shoeing/trimming and dissection clinics this year 2025
If enough interest also
Possibly open to travel to stations aswell to teach staff. Australia wide

19/06/2024

12/06/2024

Bad day to be a credit card 😂

02/06/2024

Hoof dissection clinic with Mr Hank Chisholm afa president @ Mississippi ag and farrier supplies

30/05/2024

Crossfiring
Crossfiring only occurs at a pace so it is not the sort of thing that you will see with a western type horse.

This is a collision between the medial toe of a hind foot and the medial hoof or leg of the diagonal limb. The near hind hits the off fore or the off hind hits the near fore while all feet are in the air.

Hope this clears up some confusion for some of you clients

Text and photos credit
Gregory's textbook of farriery