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17/05/2024

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13/05/2024

Happy Monday!

15/07/2023

Some photos from this previous week's work. It's been a humid summer so far.. 🥵

10/03/2023

27/07/2022

Got a nice break from the hot weather yesterday!

20/06/2022

New shoeing rig in progress!

02/06/2022

A barefoot horse in need of a little hoof repair this morning, the chunk of missing toe was caused by an abcess scar that grew down the hoof wall from the coronary band. (Causing minor lameness at the trot.)

02/06/2022

She was long!

28/05/2022

Light colored feet don't always have to be crappy.

15/05/2022

Sunday funday!

11/05/2022

Excellent to work on 5yr ottb this morning.

24/02/2022

A little clean up on this patient mare's feet :)

14/08/2021

A few pictures of recent work, busy summer!

20/07/2021

A before and after photo from this weekend!

02/06/2021

This isn’t my picture, but it’s an important one. This shows the margin for error when shoeing a horse! Not a lot really!

If you do the maths on a set of shoes using 5 nails a shoe on a 5 week cycle, (roughly 10 shoeings a year), that’s 20 nails a shoeing so over the course of the years that 200 nails per year on one horse. If you work that on 5 horses a day on 48 weeks of the year that 24000 nails! That’s a lot of time to get it right and yet farriers do over and over again. Some times however it goes wrong (we don’t have x-ray vision!)

The best way to stop your farrier from stabbing or binding your horse to to make sure that they (the horse) are well trained and stand still for the shoeing period. If they have bad shelly feet and your farrier advises glue on shoes, casts etc then their not ‘trying to rob you blind’, their trying to help your horse. If they ask for sedation then they are trying to help your horse (and also trying to stay alive in the process!)

To my knowledge I haven’t lost any work recently but this is just an in-site into how easy it is for things to go wrong when you are dealing with a live animal that can’t talk! Know one starts the day wanting to lame a horse, but sadly sometimes it can happen.

11/05/2021

Nailed up some thrushy feet with a pair of mustad equilibriums, copper sulfate to treat the thrush, copper coated nails, and four tungsten P-13 studs. Copper coated nails are proven to help reduce microbial damage to surrounding hoof tissue, and are becoming very common in every farriers tool box.

28/04/2021

Got to meet another lovely Amish Belgian today! He may not have understood why I wanted to hold his feet, but he was sure willing to try and help!

01/04/2021

Over due draft gets a clean up! This is not the finished job, and will take another visit to get these feet where they need to be.

23/03/2021

Forgot the take the after photo!

18/03/2021

20yrold thoroughbred with under-run heels brought back to a more comfortable angle with leather wedges and equipak!

08/03/2021

Baby Bill got a flat this afternoon !

31/12/2020

Some hot fitting action!

26/12/2020

A couple Christmas Eve Clydesdale foal trims!

16/12/2020

🚨Snow is in the forecast! 🚨

Last night “Skye” got front snow shoes/pads and a rear barefoot trim to keep her and her rider as safe as possible this winter! ❄️

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