Elizabeth’s Farrier Service

10/31/2024

Saturday morning funny!

08/16/2024

Easycare glue-on shoes often help horses with thin soles by adding extra protection between the horse and the ground. I have also had great success helping horses with arthritis and related conditions.

08/15/2024

08/12/2024

Tonight!

06/08/2024

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UPDATES GUIDELINES AVAILABLE 📢

The AAEP has issued revised Internal Parasite Control Guidelines to help minimize the risk of parasitic disease and maintain the effectiveness of current drugs for as long as possible by delaying further development of anthelmintic resistance.

The updated guidelines account for recent advances in knowledge concerning increased anthelmintic resistance and optimization of parasite control management practices. They also address common misconceptions and offer parasite control program recommendations for senior horses (over 15 years old), mature horses (between 5 and 15 years old), and young horses (under 5 years old).

Read more at: https://aaep.org/post/aaep-publishes-updated-internal-parasite-control-guidelines/

The guidelines were reviewed and updated by the AAEP Internal Parasite Control Guidelines Task Force, chaired by Dr. Nielsen and comprised of 10 AAEP members predominantly board certified in veterinary internal medicine, veterinary parasitology and/or veterinary microbiology. We thank them for their incredibly important work!

06/05/2024

Giddyup 🐎

ST. ALBANS, WV (WOWK) – Annaleise Dunlap, a junior at St. Albans High School, is making headlines in the rodeo world. Recently crowned the West Virginia High School Rodeo Queen at the state f…

05/30/2024

If you teach one thing, this is it.

We are going to start this by saying,

we believe it is very important for horses to learn to tie.

But we have also had to clean up the mess made from going about it the wrong way.

When a horse is going to be taught to tie, there have to be other steps mastered first.

Until a horse understands something about coming off of pressure, tying lessons should not be started. If the horse cannot do these this fairly well, he is not being set up for success, and is more likely to get injured.

Then consider carefully the area where the tying process is going to be taught.

We watched a horrifying video last year where the horse was tied on non textured rubber mats with no bedding. It peed, the mats got slick, the horse fell, then panicked, and the so called trainer started hitting it and telling the horse how incredibly stupid it was.

The whole video was disgusting.

Your learning-to-tie area should be safe, with good footing and no obstacles or implements anywhere around. There should be some sort of human safe, quick release element to it. And the tie point should be above the horse's head.

Many people do not realize that the last part is important.

When a horse is learning to tie they will very often pull back and waller on the halter (Not nearly as dramatically if they have been taught to lead and come off pressure first).

Since the last thing you want your horse learning is how to break things to get loose, this setting back often comes with a lot of pressure.

A) it's more difficult to set back hard with the tie point above the head and

B) when the horse does in this set up it is much less likely to jerk the poll out of order.

When a horse is tied to a post, rail, or ring on the wall more on level (or below) with the head, the set back wreaks all sorts of havoc on the poll area because of the way that set up applies the force to that anatomy.

That's a big problem.

Start trying to ride the horse with the out of whack poll and the minute that area gets uncomfortable pressure, it'll either bolt or buck to try and escape the pain.

Sometimes, the disorder in the poll makes a horse that chews all wrong or one that cannot stand to have the top of its head/neck touched.

There is a lot of debate over the patience pole, high line, or the tree limb, using an innertube, carabiners, flat halter versus rope halter, tie blocker rings, or no ring, daisy chain, bank robbers knot and on and on.

We will let y'all fight that out amongst yourselves.

But we ask you to seriously consider the other things we have mentioned here to help set the horses up for success.

And one day even your horse who has been tying well for years might find cause to set back. If something has changed afterwards than please get a talented chiropractor to work on your horse.

05/14/2024

😡Imagine trying ride your horse with someone shaking a bucket of grain in the middle of the area😡

05/14/2024

Iykyk

Hanno Karlhuber
The Yellow Cloud 1987

04/29/2024

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04/22/2024

Giving

Braiding ornamental grass creates a wonderful conversation piece in my garden

04/21/2024

I’d serve horses as this location 💅

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