Erin the Farrier

Erin the Farrier With over 20 years’ experience providing hoof care, Erin is a highly skilled and accredited Master Farriery service from $110
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😅Last horse of the day yesterday, luckily ahead of schedule so we had time to fit ERS “Omni” 4° hinds. 🕵️‍♀️Sore glutes ...
18/09/2024

😅Last horse of the day yesterday, luckily ahead of schedule so we had time to fit ERS “Omni” 4° hinds.
🕵️‍♀️Sore glutes discovered by the body worker.
📐External reference points suggest NPA (negative plantar angle) to support bodywork findings.

This is nice to see! Roxanne and Rhonda working on a happy couple’s big day ☺️ they’re both good girls to shoe ⚒️👍🏻
08/09/2024

This is nice to see! Roxanne and Rhonda working on a happy couple’s big day ☺️ they’re both good girls to shoe ⚒️👍🏻

🧫Experimenting with tiny impression material plugs in seedy toe cavities the concept is to keep the anti fungal treatmen...
28/08/2024

🧫Experimenting with tiny impression material plugs in seedy toe cavities the concept is to keep the anti fungal treatment in and manure out🤞
💪still there on the return visit ✅ photos of the repeat treatment ☺️

🎶Don’t you know; Pump it up, you got to pump it up!⚒️ERS “Euro” bar inserts and medium shore 35 impression material. ☺️W...
22/08/2024

🎶Don’t you know; Pump it up, you got to pump it up!

⚒️ERS “Euro” bar inserts and medium shore 35 impression material.

☺️We’re expecting encouraging results with heel quality, symmetry and height. Now this Thoroughbred is out of open heel shoes and has the support of the impression material on the frog and bars.

👌Hind hooves brushing? When the hind leg/hoof leaves the ground and as it comes forward hits the upper pastern or fetloc...
19/08/2024

👌Hind hooves brushing? When the hind leg/hoof leaves the ground and as it comes forward hits the upper pastern or fetlock.

🐴Strength/balance and confirmation seem to be the most common influences and young horses often “grow” out of brushing with minor farrier assistance.

🤔 This can result in localised injuries or bruising. Unaddressed this can lead to a multitude of behavioural problems that arise from the horse attempting to avoid this happening.

⚒️Here’s an effective modification using a Draft horse shoe nail as an outside stud and just $0.31 each 🤩
The stud catching the ground slightly earlier on hoof landing effectively widening the loaded phase of the stride allowing the other limb to miss as it comes through. ☺️

🩻Kissing spine or impinging dorsal spinous processes is an abnormality in the spinal processes causing them to touch or ...
06/08/2024

🩻Kissing spine or impinging dorsal spinous processes is an abnormality in the spinal processes causing them to touch or “kiss”

🐴ERS “Omni” hind shoes alleviate the symptoms and allow this 20yo thoroughbred to be exercised and train in elementary/ medium dressage

🤔horses respond differently to therapeutic farriery, in this case it was “trial and error”
⚒️3° elevation uneven, stepping short on turns
⚒️4° improved uneven on turns
⚒️6° success! Back in regular training and lessons 😊

🐴Revisiting our frog puncture case today.🤔Owner feedback; Rehabilitation going well on road and firm ground but noticeab...
05/08/2024

🐴Revisiting our frog puncture case today.

🤔Owner feedback; Rehabilitation going well on road and firm ground but noticeable regression in the soft sand arena.

⚒️ Hoof testers could detect sensitivity mid frog/inside heel/bar region. A simple approach is the welded mid bar with air gap to protect the structures underneath and redirect load to the wall.

🤞hopefully this is all he needs to regain comfort in soft substrates and continue the rehabilitation journey. Remember that the ligaments within the hoof have a poor blood supply and can take a long time to to heal from injury with 7 months often the base line.

⚒️ my initials and my touch mark 😉👌A blacksmith's touchmark is the final detail that pulls a project together. A touch...
01/08/2024

⚒️ my initials and my touch mark 😉👌

A blacksmith's touchmark is the final detail that pulls a project together. A touchmark identifies the artisan who created the item, allows the end user to see a glimpse of the personality of the item's creator, and is a way for a blacksmith to distinguish their work.

👨‍🏫Good day of learning and revision at the Mustad Australia / Brad Hinze clinic hosted by Stockmans Supplies and UQ Ski...
19/07/2024

👨‍🏫Good day of learning and revision at the Mustad Australia / Brad Hinze clinic hosted by Stockmans Supplies and UQ Skills

🧐Focus areas included;

✅Conformation assessment and it’s influence on equine hoof
✅familiarisation with new Mustad materials available,
Comfort mix acrylic adhesive, comfort mix ZNO impression material and of course cast.

👨‍🏫 School’s back so i’v lost Casey and Max 😔⚒️Max is cleaning out hooves, wire brush shoes, stud holes and handles the ...
10/07/2024

👨‍🏫 School’s back so i’v lost Casey and Max 😔

⚒️Max is cleaning out hooves, wire brush shoes, stud holes and handles the forge 🙌

⚒️Casey is cleaning hooves and shoes, measuring and mixing impression material and selecting the correct nails for each horse 🙌

…..🤔 Erin the Farrier and Son’s has a nice ring to it don’t you agree? 😊

👍🏻White line disease update 👍🏻Progress slowed slightly with winter growth rates but manage to get him into shoes rather ...
09/07/2024

👍🏻White line disease update 👍🏻

Progress slowed slightly with winter growth rates but manage to get him into shoes rather than a cast,

🏇lite trail riding on weekends now an option

🦠 keeping anti fungal treatment active it just time to grow out the defect. 🤞

🤔if you’re wondering, around 15 seconds for hot donuts in the cooling forge sitting at 260°😋
08/07/2024

🤔if you’re wondering, around 15 seconds for hot donuts in the cooling forge sitting at 260°😋

05/07/2024

⚒️ NANRIC Drop forged full rocker, modified and ready to go on 👌😉👍🏻

🐴 Palomino/Gypsy Cob, a proper dream 😴 pony for so many 😊⚒️Almost never use toe clips but here they are looking pretty 😍...
28/06/2024

🐴 Palomino/Gypsy Cob, a proper dream 😴 pony for so many 😊

⚒️Almost never use toe clips but here they are looking pretty 😍 nicely aligned pastern and hoof balance in toe clips is so rare in the modern horse. 🐎

Brewarrina 👍🏻 cool shoe sculpture in aluminium race plates 😉👌
24/06/2024

Brewarrina 👍🏻 cool shoe sculpture in aluminium race plates 😉👌

⛏️‘Chambers of the black hand’ Lightning Ridge ⛏️Over 12 years Ron Canlin carved over 800 sculptures into his opal mine ...
23/06/2024

⛏️‘Chambers of the black hand’ Lightning Ridge

⛏️Over 12 years Ron Canlin carved over 800 sculptures into his opal mine after it failed to produce opals.

🕺Kerckhaert ’Dance’ aluminium shoes 🐴 Ready for state interschool competition next week🥇good luck competitors 💪👏👍🏻 ...
20/06/2024

🕺Kerckhaert ’Dance’ aluminium shoes

🐴 Ready for state interschool competition next week

🥇good luck competitors 💪👏👍🏻

😅Making shoes inside a horse shoe ball….. that’s a first 😂😂
19/06/2024

😅Making shoes inside a horse shoe ball….. that’s a first 😂😂

👏10 weeks in the treatment plate and we have a new sole and frog 💪⚒️re shod in standard shoes for ground clearance, read...
18/06/2024

👏10 weeks in the treatment plate and we have a new sole and frog 💪

⚒️re shod in standard shoes for ground clearance, ready for the holidays and rehabbing/re conditioning 😉

⚡️Flashback Friday ⚡️🤦‍♂️😄 here I am modelling the freshly issued Sydney 2000 Olympic farrier jacket! It was actually a ...
07/06/2024

⚡️Flashback Friday ⚡️

🤦‍♂️😄 here I am modelling the freshly issued Sydney 2000 Olympic farrier jacket! It was actually a really good experience, my first time seeing Farriery from all round the world, really ignited my desire to to continue learning.

🤔Subliminal messages today? ? ? Umm, go Queensland 💪😂
05/06/2024

🤔Subliminal messages today? ? ? Umm, go Queensland 💪😂

✅Stock take done, draws cleaned out and organised 🤔Take a guess on how many horses could theoretically be shod all round...
30/05/2024

✅Stock take done, draws cleaned out and organised

🤔Take a guess on how many horses could theoretically be shod all round (4)😳☝️don’t count the bin/bucket at the front 😉

🏆Closest guess wins a custom made hoof pic 🤩

🤑Pimped the feed shed with Millennium Feed Bins 👍🏻👌great quality powder coated steel construction with excellent wheels,...
20/05/2024

🤑Pimped the feed shed with Millennium Feed Bins 👍🏻

👌great quality powder coated steel construction with excellent wheels, latches and struts. 💪

Highly recommended 😉👍🏻

⚡️Flashback Friday ⚡️🤦‍♂️The things girlfriends make you do🤫 now wife 😅🐕 dear old Darcy my Australian Kelpie on the back...
17/05/2024

⚡️Flashback Friday ⚡️

🤦‍♂️The things girlfriends make you do🤫 now wife 😅

🐕 dear old Darcy my Australian Kelpie on the back seat of the work truck for 14 years, RIP girl

🐴 ahh Willow Courtney’s Brumby mare 😊 mother of our Brumbalausian gelding Roark 🙄😂

15/05/2024

🤔Low heels, not growing heels, low angles?
👀looks how much wear there is in the steel, imagine the heel loss as hoof is obviously softer!

⚒️ERS ‘Euro’ bars one of my ‘go to’ solutions 😉👍🏻

⚡️Flashback Friday⚡️It’s 1999 I’m at the tail end of my farrier apprenticeship and I’ve picked up my first farrier trail...
10/05/2024

⚡️Flashback Friday⚡️

It’s 1999 I’m at the tail end of my farrier apprenticeship and I’ve picked up my first farrier trailer 😁 so cool 😂

🐮Here’s 6yo Lola after her trim 😊 no action shots today as she is in calf and we wanted to keep the handling and restrai...
09/05/2024

🐮Here’s 6yo Lola after her trim 😊 no action shots today as she is in calf and we wanted to keep the handling and restraint time time to a minimum 😉👍🏻

🏜️The black soil country combined with wet conditions hasn’t been abrasive, her hooves simply grew too long for her to be comfortable.

🍄‍🟫Back with the White line Disease (WLD) case we’ve been following 👍🏻✅MV Frog shield still active fighting microbes 6 w...
09/05/2024

🍄‍🟫Back with the White line Disease (WLD) case we’ve been following 👍🏻

✅MV Frog shield still active fighting microbes 6 weeks later. We’re getting closer to having wall at the toe which will allow us to return to more traditional hoof management 😉👍🏻

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Here’s Ginger taking interest in her hoof care today, She’s very particular 😂

Standing by the forge a little too often on this cold day 😅

⚒️ NANRIC Drop forged full rocker, modified and ready to go on 👌😉👍🏻

🤔Low heels, not growing heels, low angles? 👀looks how much wear there is in the steel, imagine the heel loss as hoof is obviously softer! ⚒️ERS ‘Euro’ bars one of my ‘go to’ solutions 😉👍🏻

🧹Time for your broom test 🎥here’s an old video describing Negative Plantar angle and the farriery approach. ⚒️Today clients can enjoy even more accurate and repeatable farriery with my laser cut ERS “Omni” shoe inserts 😉😊

New “springy” putty 😉👍🏻

🐴 “Titan” 12 months ago (January 23) 🥺Chronic Laminitis through unmanaged grazing and little exercise. Here hooves at the start of their rehabilitation journey 🙂 💪In the next post see how far he’s come 😁

😂 Not what I had in mind with the “share” size chocolate bar 🤦‍♂️ The nose 👃 knows 🐴…

🪰Fly’s and abscesses ⛑️ and a fussy mare! 🐴 It’s a Trifecta!👏👏👏😂

📣New Product available for all performance and therapeutic farriers’📣 ⚒️ERS ‘Euro’ 6mm steel shoe inserts. 📫500gram Express post within Australia 😉👍🏻

🐴Nixon doing well on full feed and no work 🤦‍♂️

🐴🐴new horse for me!😁😁

🤦‍♂️Treating the frog with Erin the Farrier 😂 🦠signs of thrush, deep sensitive hair line cracks in the fleshy frog. ⚒️Often we can’t ’trim’ it out as its as deep as the blood supply to the frog 👍🏻I see good results with conservative knife or grinder work in summer and relying on a broad spectrum treatment like Bosito’s tea tree twice weekly 😉😊

😌It’s satisfying picking out impression material after 6 weeks and revealing microbe 🦠 free sole and frog 💪😊

🐴Little family unit spotted Barrington tops NP today 😃 brand new foal too 😊 #brumbies

🤩 Fitting the first production pair of Euro bar orthotic inserts to this Show jumping gelding 👏
🤩 Fitting the first production pair of Euro bar orthotic inserts to this Show jumping gelding 👏

🤩 New and Exclusive to Erin the Farrier “ERS” Euro bar inserts 😀 😋 3 modifications and 100’s of Km in testing here are my new premium support ’Euro’ bar inserts ready for and discipline ☺️ ☝️Ask me about upgrading at our next appointment 💡💪👏

😀Here’s a maintenance trim video for your viewing pleasure 🤣 🐴 Semi retired Connemara mare 😊

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