CKY Rasp Fairy Hoof Trimming Services

07/10/2024

As in most businesses, you have the right to refuse service. I don't feel like anyone is at fault is the situation in the article. Working around and with horses comes with many risks, even with well behaved animals. They are large and can hurt you with out meaning to. Even if the owners had been there this could have very well have happened. At the end of the day as a farrier I make the call on my safety, and if I feel like a client is being negligent or asking me to work in a bad situation I will ask for a change...and if they disagree I walk away. https://www.americanfarriers.com/blogs/1-from-the-desk-of-afj/post/6840-wrongful-death-ruling-empowers-farriers?fbclid=IwY2xjawFw0MFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVJbRLWBKp11gldZJjRP2GtxJsJ4rMzO7S6CA7vzS1WfT10xSQN6a_L_WA_aem_4nZM6H63q01FUG-CDQxJOw

On a fall Southern California day in 2009, Pat Barrett set out to do what he had done thousands of times over more than 45 years — trim horses' hooves.

31/07/2024

If you have a good farrier who keeps your equine's feet in good shape and treats you and your animal with respect, let them know they are doing a good job. Truth is if they are in this business very long, they are going to have hard days. There will be hard cases. There will be hard clients. There will be animals that they can't convience to trust them, and it won't be any fault of their own...and in my experience its usually not the current owners fault either. They will get bruised, and tossed, and likely kicked at some point even if being safe. These are risks we are all aware of and on the hard days, it helps to hear that they are doing a good job.

25/07/2024

01/03/2024

Kissed 'em..... more like walked by lately.

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credits: The Muck Bucket

18/01/2024

Trimming hooves isn't a cookie cutter business. Every hoof grows differently because of many factors. My mentor follows Dr. Bowker and his studies and believes this is true and I agree.

We've followed Dr. Robert Bowker's advice for a couple decades now, and it has worked well for us. I don't wish to criticize those who practice differently, but I have always been shocked at how most of the hoofcare world has largely ignored Bowker's research, data, and advice. He has the receipts! He's a very kind person so not into arguing. In this current world, if you're not a loud mouth blabbing away, no one listens. But his information is spot on.

Want to debate the toes? How about THIS: "With the long toe, P3 is remodeling! The hoof wall grows LONGER and this elevates the periosteum off the coffin bone, and that space fills in with BONE (which elongates the coffin bone). The toes gets longer and longer. With a slipper toe, the periosteum goes out towards this slipper; the coffin bone will creep. The entire bone remodels forward. Everything is interactive. If the palmar process gets longer, the toes are too long."

Bowker is adamant: you MUST trim into the white line to shorten the toes to rehab a long-toed foot. "Horses will be sore when the semilunar line to tip of P3 is in excess of 40mm, and thus the toe is long. This happens because trimmers are afraid to come inside the white line! Farriers NEVER come inside the white line. And vets do not trim."

Conversations about this need to happen. The trimmers who put this into practice know that it works. Short toes are the best thing you can do for a horse's foot.

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