Chris Boyd Dip WCF Registered Farrier

19/06/2024

Getting well looked after today 👌🏼

12/06/2024

08/06/2024

Back from a fantastic time in Ibiza with the family and I’ll get caught up with the diary over the weekend. It’s now my busiest time of the year and pre booking your next appointment is recommended unless you’re flexible with times and sometimes prepared to wait for a appointment.

16/05/2024

Pair of glue on shoes for this little laminitic horse this morning. After reviewing his X-rays I felt nailing a steal heart bar on would be 2 painful for him at this stage and didn’t want to set back his recovery. I added a frog support pad to help distribute weight and stabilise the bony column. Fingers crossed this shoeing package, a slight change in diet and his new drugs to treat his equine metabolic syndrome will have him back feeling his best soon.

10/05/2024

3 very inquisitive Suffolk foals watching me today while trimming there mums.

28/04/2024

✈️🏖️☀️🍺 I’ll be away the week of May half term (25/5 to 2/6) so 4 working week! I think I’ve contacted everyone who I had in that week to reschedule but if your due around then drop me a msg so iv got you in the diary 🍺☀️🏖️✈️

25/04/2024

Seen my old mate foggy was in the area today so called in for a quick catch up and got my shoeing knife’s sharpened. Top job as always, now there all f Kingsharp. Drop him a msg to see when he’s in your area for all your sharpening needs.

23/04/2024

Lovely to be back shoeing in the sun today, at possibly my favourite tie ring in this weather. I must of shod thousands of horses tied up here over the years.

14/04/2024

I will get back to people regarding work after the weekend once things have calmed down a little and for those that didn’t know we’ve been kinda busy the last few days 💍🤵‍♂️👰💕

03/03/2024

Price list April 24

Single horse calls
Full set £95
Fronts with hinds trimmed £65
Single barefoot trim £40
Stud holes £5 per 4 holes
Road pins £5
Bar shoes , pads etc price depending on time and materials used.

Slight discount available for yard calls with multiple horses being done on a regular pre booked appointment depending on what’s being done on the day.

22/02/2024

A little lamintic case iv been working on for around 6 months. Pony presented with an intermittent lameness with no obvious cause. X-ray were taken and showed slight rotation in the front feet. With a change in diet and management, he was initially shod with heart bars and using impression material to get some positive frog pressure and was noticeably better straight away. He was feeling that good he returned to full work within 1 shoeing cycle and hes continued to progress well, the inflamed/torn lamiae have shown signs of tightening up on each visit and he’s now back shod in a conventional shoe.

15/02/2024

A little 5 month transformation on some big feet! Finally grown down to solid horn and no filler needed.

03/02/2024

Finally moving into the 21st century and trying electronic invoicing and payment links! Obviously cash on the day is perfect and paper invoices still available for those who’d prefer them. I don’t always see you all at my appointments so anybody who wants a digital one either send me your email or I’ll try and get it off you at my next visit.

31/01/2024

🧑‍💻👩‍💻DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN NOW ORDER YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS ONLINE👩‍💻🧑‍💻

For your convenience and ease we now have the option of ordering your horses prescription medication online.💊💊

This means that you can order whenever and wherever you like, rather than having to wait for our opening hours. The order that you place will be send directly to our office team, who will get the relevant authorisation from the case vet. We will then arrange for your medication to be despatched in whichever way you have requested and contact you for payment.

Simply follow this link and complete the request form: https://www.northwestequinevets.co.uk/the-practice/prescriptions/

We hope this help to make life a little easier for you 😊

For those that don’t use the internet, or those who prefer (!) you can still give us a call 😊

11/01/2024

Great presentation last night hosted by North West Equine Vets Ltd. On 'Flexural and angular limb deformities - How when and should we intervene?' Realy informative and good to catch up with the vets,staff and fellow farriers.

08/01/2024

Damaged heel quarter I patched up last year with the The 3rd Millennium glue. Stayed in place despite the horse living in a Cumbrian swamp 24/7 for the last 7 weeks. Was still well attached so I just left it in place and see what it looks like next visit.

08/01/2024

Iv updated my phone over Christmas and seemingly WhatsApp is playing up so can’t see some new messages. If you’ve messaged me on there and not had a reply drop me msg on here or on my mobile cheers.

31/12/2023

Big thanks to my customers for all the brews and opportunitie to work on some great horses this year, you’re not a bad bunch really 😉 Unfortunately as it goes with horses we lost one or 2 of my old favourites along the way but on a positive note managed to help a few that probably shouldn’t still be here, but that’s horses for you. It’s always nice to be part of a successful team and seeing people reach there personal goal wether it be qualifying for hoys or getting back onboard after a few years out of the saddle is always satisfying.🐴🧲🔨 All the best for 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ and what lies ahead

17/12/2023

Finally got next years diary back so anybody waiting for appointments in the new year drop me a msg to remind me and I’ll get you booked in. Also have a few bills to get out so I’ll be sitting down tonight and sorting it all out.

17/11/2023

Finally thought I better re shoe the heavy horse with the poor feet from a while back and really happy how his feet have held up. I wouldn’t normally recommend leaving the shoeing interval so long but as one off it enabled me to gain some healthy growth. The filler was still realy well attached and I could have left it in place but I don’t think burning a shoe onto it would have done me any favours 😂 so I removed it and re patched with a more colour coordinated filler this time and you can hardly tell it’s been patched.

15/11/2023

🎄5 1/2 working weeks till Christmas 🎅and the diary’s starting to fill up. Anybody looking to get booked in drop me a msg soon rather than later please 🎄

08/11/2023

Quick tidy up on some Suffolk Punch broodmares this morning and new one to the round in need of a good trim. Considering how rare they are I think that could be the 11th or 12th one I do. To be fair the new one was as good as gold and her feet tidied up well, still not a big fan of them though 😂

27/10/2023

Had a quick look at the heavy horse with the smashed up feet I patched up 8 weeks ago. The glue is still tight although starting to look a bit ragged around the edges but the hoof wall above looks to be growing down well. Because the feet were so broken up last time I decided I’d leave shoeing him a bit longer so hopefully iv a bit more foot to work with next visit.

20/10/2023

Im seeing some amount of abscesses and hoof related problems around at the moment in both shod and barefoot horses. Most fields are like swamps and this causes the feet to be constantly saturated and soft. Soft feet are more prone to injury and the chance of infection through bacteria entering the hoof capsule. I’m not normally a fan of hoof oil but at the moment if your horse is stabled then turned out for long periods of time I’d recommend using a traditional oil based product,especially on the soles of the feet and frog to help create a bit of a barrier from the wet ground before turnout.

11/10/2023

Little follow up on “dingle” great progress has been made from where he was 6 months ago and his hoof that was removed has about grown out and is about back to normal now. Just shows what can be achieved with a great team effort from the yard staff working alongside the vets and myself. The pictures go from today back over the last few months to when the infection occurred.

11/10/2023

Well looked after this morning 👌🏼