Elizabeth’s Farrier Service

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 💅

Welcome to Greenbrier Valley Pastures Horse Boarding located in the beautiful Greenbrier Valley.We offer a variety of horse boarding options to best suit your horse's needs.Call for pricing and availability.

04/01/2024

Hey, hay

03/29/2024

If the management is adequate, the animal needs a vet that can diagnose or rule out a metabolic or inflammatory condition. A clinical approach at onset is when damage can be mitigated most. Much time and money spent on vitamins and such with questionable results and often with permanent changes to the hoof 🫶.

Farrier conversation...

"Ma'am your horses are too big and their feet are showing me signs of stress. You are going to have to slim them down or a disaster is coming."

Owner, "well, I cannot do anything else. They are already out in a field with the grass chewed down to nothing and a lot of weeds."

Upon hearing this the farrier pulls all of his hair out and is now a bald farrier.

Let's do something different. This time You tell us how the owner could keep her horses from becoming another statistic.

(This is a generalized scenario we chose to present because of conversations with frustrated farriers)

03/26/2024

Fashionable advice 💅

03/22/2024

Eastern KY peeps?

Who lives near
East Bernstadt, Ky?

I need someone to meet me today there to help catch and load two horses that haven't been handled in quite some time.

The horses are out of food and the owner's husband has died. She needs help.

I don't have anyone able to ride able local today.

03/10/2024

Friends in Tennessee:

03/09/2024

I wonder if Gun of 6 years ago (who hated people and kind of liked the idea of dying) ever expected he’d grow up and deal with this kind of crap

03/08/2024

13 Hands Rescue would like to transfer 5 horses to HOP for the Appalachian Trainer Face Off.

2 are Belgian crosses.

Their board is looking for transport to get them to us.

They are a rescue and we are a rescue and it's a tough world for those right now.

If anyone knows a reasonable and reputable hauler who goes that direction please reach out to 13 Hands so they can review options.

03/07/2024

Got cracked hooves? Just like your tires, hooves need to be routinely rebalanced. Often, a regular trimming cycle that considers the cause of the imbalance is all that’s needed halt their progress. Regrowth is then possible 🐴😊❤️

03/01/2024

We want to extend a big thank you to Fayette Veterinary Hospital for being a gold level sponsor of the Furball on March 23th at the Gaines Estate. Thank you for helping the fur babies! 🐾💃🏻🕺🏼🪩

02/28/2024

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Freeze branding is the best way to keep a horse safe, as long as the mark has wide recognition.

This month marks 10 years of applying the Heart of Phoenix Equine Reacue brands to all of our horses.

While we also microchip, the chip does little in our current world to protect the horse, as they are rarely scanned anywhere.

Some ask whether freeze branding is painful.
1. The brand is applied for 10 seconds
2. We apply it under sedation, after a dental float
3. When done without sedation, it is similar to giving a 16ga needle injection IM of medicine, in terms of reaction, but we always do it sedated, so that the horse doesn't move and make the brand hard to read
4. It is considered humane by the AAEP
5. It is 1,000 percent less painful than slaughter or starvation
6. Do people consider it unsightly? Not at all in our experience. Adopters report a lot of compliments on the brand and all it means.

The brand says immediately on their left shoulder, "Someone cares about me and will help me if I need it."

The world-wide recognition of our brand means if the horse needs help, odds are huge that someone will know to contact us, and we will be there.

We have received calls from New Zealand and England about Heart P horses in trouble (who were not ours) which tells us how widely our brand is recognized.

Hundreds and hundreds now carry the ❤️ P

It creates conversations on trail rides, vet's offices and at shows. It spreads awareness and the story of the horse and the advocacy organization behind the horse.

It's one of the best things we've offered to horses in our care. . . Probably the best.

02/14/2024

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Join us at the JW Ruby Research Farm for the WV 4-H and FFA Horse Judging & Hippology Contest!

Registration Information will be shared by WVU Extension and WV FFA soon ✨

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02/14/2024

10 out of 10 horse girls would prefer a riding arena for Valentine’s Day. This is the next best thing! ❤️🐎🎶

Fun Night! Music, humor, raffles

02/12/2024

Free and online!

𝗚𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀!

Did you know about our seminar series? It is free and can be attended both in person and remotely. Topics relate to research in equine health and well-being as well as research in related fields. The series features invited expert speakers as well as our own graduate students, postdocs, and faculty.

The location is Gluck Equine Research Center on 1400 Nicholasville Road in Lexington, Kentucky. We provide coffee and cookies. Each seminar will have a Zoom registration link, which will be posted here on this page as well as on our website. https://gluck.ca.uky.edu/events

01/17/2024