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Liscombe Forge

Antony Marris
Offering a professional, friendly and reliable service to all equine disiplines
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12/02/2024

This knee was a bit of a wild one🐎

11/02/2024

I think this chap was a little over due for a trim !
Thankfully after a good trim he walked off a lot happier 🐎

I will let the feet recover over the next 4-5 weeks then reassess, trim and hopefully get sized up for some hoof boots.

If you are looking for some Hoof boots measured up for your horse/ pony please get in touch to make an appointment.

07/02/2024

Fantastic image sourced from the National Army museum.

Taken in 1914 at the stables of the Buffs ( east Kent )

Sourcing horses
Until the 1880s, cavalry regiments were responsible for buying their own horses. In 1887, the Remount Department was created to take over this role. Animals were sourced from breeders, auctions and private families. Officers at this time still supplied their own horses.

When the First World War broke out in 1914, the Army had only 25,000 horses at its disposal. By the end of the conflict, it had purchased over 460,000 horses and mules from across Britain and Ireland, and even more from overseas.

https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/british-army-horses-during-first-world-war

26/01/2024

A great sunny day for some hoof boot fitting today

This chap was a great patient and has now had a complete fitting for scoot boots that will help him on his way to his transition into barefoot and give him some protection on his longer outings 👏

Did you know through the The Hoof Boot Shop I offer a hoof boot fitting service with 4 different manufacturers to get the best hoof boot fit for your pony / horse

Equine fusions regular and slim
Explora magic regular and slim
Flex boot regular
Scoot boot regular and slim

If you are interested in getting booked in for a fitting please send me a Dm or message through the phone number on the page, covering Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.

18/10/2023

🐎 AVAILABILITY FOR TRIMMING 🐎

I have availability to take on new clients for trimming, ideally multiple trims or medium/ large yards in the beds/ bucks/ Herts border but willing to travel further afield for larger yards.

Highly experienced with all aspects of barefoot trimming, management, shod to barefoot transitioning on youngstock, broodmares, competition horses, heavy horses, ponies, shetlands and donkeys 😊

Static and motion assessment available where the correct environment allows.

Friendly, reliable with good communication and rebooking system.

Please message or call for pricing and availability.

17/07/2023

Some handmade concave going on nicely in the rainy British summer 🐎

16/07/2023

A special commemorative peice made from “Otto’s” shoe.
Hand forged into a heart and mounted on a sanded and treated elm wood panel, finished with a solid brass plaque to pay homage to a much loved horse for his owners to remember him by❤️🐎

I am now taking orders for bespoke commemorative and ornamental pieces, all that is needed to create one like this is a shoe from your horse to be forged into a heart, if you don’t have a shoe don’t worry I can make you a shoe or a heart to remember your beloved horse.

Please send me a message for more details.

10/02/2023

Something a little different this evening, the first of a few house plaques I am making.

This one has a hand forged draft horse front shoe with agricultural heels copper coated nails coated in 🐝 wax and a thick brass engraved plaque.
The wood is sanded to a fine finish and coated with Linseed oil 🐎

23/10/2022

10 year wedding anniversary present for two friends, hand made Draft horse front shoe with Agricultural/ scotch heels and copper nails finished with a brass engraved plaque.

15/09/2022

Laminitis advice and alert.

Due to the drastic weather change over the last few weeks the nutrition levels of the grass has shot up, even if you have not had much visible growth the sugar levels of new grass shoots will be high and this will be a shock to your horses or ponies digestive system after the dry spell we have had this year. I have seen large increase in mild/ moderate lamintic flare ups also abscesses and serious colic cases, so please be careful and mindful of this when you are planning your turnout routine.

Laminitis is a veterinary emergency so if you suspect anything could be slight shortness in gate, foot shuffling, change in general mood ( other signs are in the photo below ) these could be some early signs of an episode so please seek some advise from your vet, in sudden cases of laminitis seeing how they are in a day or two does not work, it needs to be addressed as early as possible for the best out come.

Take care
Antony

22/06/2022

DePlano Hoof Care Italian leather pads being applied this lovely hot morning ☀️

11/05/2022

I shod the bosses lovely big boy last week, he is coming along great !! And sooo pretty I’m told 😂 Natasha Marris

24/12/2021

Well here it is Merry Christmas!!

All done for another year, and what a mad year it has been! I would like to take a moment to thank and wish all my customers, family and friends a great Christmas 🎄

Thank you for all the lovely presents and gift from my clients ( I feel very spoilt ) and your continued custom and trust in me looking after your furry friends feet 🐎 I know I have had to move and rearrange visit’s but your patience has been much appreciated through a tricky time my wife and I were faced with this year.

Here is a picture of my beautiful wife with our 3 month premature little boy. After 11 weeks in the hospital he is now home with us and gets to spend his first Christmas with Mummy, big brother Jacob and me 💜

Take care everyone

Antony Marris and Family.

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Leighton Buzzard
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A donkey and its foal

This cute 3 month old donkey foal and it’s mummy were in for a check up this week. They had other ideas then coming in for a trim 😊

A new client I shod a few weeks ago. He had been rested for 3 weeks, presented to me with moderate lameness and deep hoof wall bruising. Applied to an open healed shoe was an The 3rd Millennium ibex flat pad. These pads are a real favourite of mine and I have some great results with them. I can choose what filling/ solution applied underneath the pad depending on what needs to be achieved. In this case he had heat and bruising in the front feet, I wanted to help reduce that so I used Absorbine magic cushion underneath the pad which really effectively reduces the heat. Immediate improvement was shown with a 1/2a 10th lameness present after shoeing. Three days later he was fully sound and able to start work again 🐎 Finished with some Kevin Bacon's Equine Products UK

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My background

I grew up in an equine environment through my mother and uncle having horses, i learnt to ride at a young age with my four siblings but I had always been fascinated by the farrier shoeing , trimming the horses and ponies.

Once I finished school I completed my pre-farrier course at Hereford College of Technology.I then started my apprenticeship with Billy Crothers 2008 whilst going to college at Myerscough School of Farriery and obtaining my Diploma from the worshipful company of farriers in March 2014. Staying on working with Billy for 2 1/2 years then set up my own company before the birth of my son Jacob in 2016. My company is based in Soulbury just outside of Leighton buzzard I am mostly mobile but do have customers come to my forge at home if they are outside my travel radius. All types of shoeing and barefoot trimming is undertaken by myself. I am lucky enough to shoe many high level competition horses, I was awarded best shod horse at the Badminton Horse trials in 2019 on the horse Call Me Maggie May ridden by Izzy Taylor 🇬🇧 I feel very privileged to the first person to also win this award using modern materials, she was shod using 3rd millennium frog pads and anti concussion material underneath which keeps her sound and comfortable throughout the season. This was one of my life goals when growing up.

https://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2019/05/best-of-both-worlds-for-badminton-best-shod-horse.html?m=1