Levi's Farriery Services

15/04/2023

09/01/2023

Madden hat es nicht leicht, weil er anders aussieht. Er nimmt sich das sehr zu Herzen. Doch als seine Mutter seinen Zwilling entdeckt, ändert sich alles.

08/06/2022

This year marks my 55th year of shoeing horses. Techniques have changed several times throughout that career based on subjective evaluation and misleading science. We now live in the age of information (and misinformation), and those who force their opinions on our farriery practices are expanding.....

01/06/2022

01/06/2022

07/04/2022

25/02/2022

Dumping the wall &/or setting the shoe back off the toe!

What happens when you rasp the toe back &/or set the shoe back from the toe.

In these instances you are reducing toe length only & having no bearing whatsoever on ‘actual hoof angle,’ PA &/or alignment, as shown in the photo below.

17/02/2022

06/06/2021

Zwischen den Fotos liegen 8 Wochen:
1. Foto oben: zum Zeitpunkt des Kaufes (so platziert in der schweren Klasse)
2. Foto unten: 8 Wochen später nach Umstellung des Trainings, dem Einsatz eines passenden Sattels und einer Behandlung von mir.

05/06/2021

Change my mind…

https://www.burnin-daylight.com/listen/pride-comes-before-a-bull-session

**t

01/06/2021

Bit of home office today then a trip to see the big scary cows.

22/05/2021

Really cool photos showing what’s going on inside a hoof with chronic laminitis including a coronary groove to try and release pressure to allow normal hoof growth to take place . (Not my photos or literature found it on Jürgen Gotthardt’s Site hope he doesn’t mind me borrowing it)

20/05/2021

Just out here doing my thing . Nice shoeing on a horse with a little caudal support to help support internal structures and redistribution of weight.

16/05/2021

Why is your horse difficult to shoe?
Is it a sign of pain?

Similar to Dysons ethogram, Mannsman et al. (2011) suggested a pain ethogram for the shoeing process. The study expressed that the behaviours can be the result of bad training, improper handling, or the recall of past pain/punishment but its findings correlated with Dyson and concluded that pain must be considered first!

When shoeing horses we can be asking them to make unnatural body compensations to facilitate our work. The image below shows how shoeing the hinds can affect all the way along the dorsal myofascial line. Horses presenting with pathology along that line will struggle. A common "behaviour" can be hopping around, also snatching or slamming the leg down. Something I have experienced often in horses presenting with negative plantar angles. However, often these horses can have great feet and we are experiencing the effects of higher pain.

Very often the amount of difficulty can be proportionate to how poor the feet are, as they improve with remedial farriery the signs of pain reduce.
In the meantime simple considerations can be made. A horse with very thin soles or pr*****ed frogs, leave the opposite shoe on and do one foot at a time, for example.

As farriers we are well placed to note these "behaviours" as possible early signs of otherwise unrecognised discomfort, or even reactions to obvious poor hoof conformation. Not label the horse as "bad"!

In my experience, and supported by Mannsman et al. (2011) these behaviours desist with the improvement of the feet or higher issues.
Horses, in general, are genuine animals. Recognising pain in the horse is an obligation for anyone working with them and mentioning shoeing observations can be the first step in saving horses from unrecognised higher issues.

Further reading at this link..
https://www.theequinedocumentalist.com/post/recognising-pain-in-the-horse

07/02/2021

Ok I’ll admit it I’m converted the Duplo shoe is pretty impressive this horse has had many issues with arthritis and tendon problems but he seems to be doing great with duplos on . I can understand why the shoes have got quite a bad press over recent years because of bad application but that is no different to any type of shoeing (nice shoe applied for the wrong reason or badly will always give a s**t result)when you’ve got your head around how to use them they are great ! The added benefit is that it’s a relatively safe winter shoeing option . But don’t be scared If i can shoe with a normal steel shoe I will it’s just nice to be able to have the option 😉 keep safe in the snow think about where you are riding and for god sake don’t be riding over fields of winter wheat or barley it’s hard enough for farmers as it is . Greetings Levi

16/10/2020

Ab sofort bieten wir Weide Pflege an !
Unseren klein 4m Schlepper Striegel nachsaat Kombi ist die perfekten Losung Grünland schaden zu besichtigen .
Wir konnen nachsaat Mischungen komplett nach Wunsch ausbringen auf den kleinsten flachen . Als die Pferde reinkommen jetzt ist die Zeit den Grasnarben zu pflegen fur einen Angebot einfach melden .