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‘Webb Farriery’ is owned by Mr L J Webb DipWCF covering South Yorkshire and the surrounding areas.

24/04/2025

🐸 Frogs 🐸

Summer is quickly creeping up on us and the feet are starting to grow more and become firmer/ harder on the dryer days ☀️
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The Frog is a key component of the solar aspect of the foot. It provides a large surface area of ‘softer tissue’ and has many important roles - from load bearing, assisting blood circulation, traction, absorbing concussion… and more! 💪
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For this reason, when trimming frogs it is important to trim the clefts (side of the frog) to allow any potential trapped festering bacteria to be cleaned out, and to leave as much frog to make contact with the ground surface when weight bearing. If the frog is not used, it will start to atrophy 💀
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The frog is considered the heart of the foot.

17/03/2025

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies” - Mother Teresa 🙏
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Well, Mother T, I have faith in this little fella but my back and knees are far from strong after trimming his feet, haha 🤣
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Who doesn’t love a Shetland 🤪

03/03/2025

Feeling the ‘back end’ of winter now! 🙏
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Who doesn’t love Spring? ☀️ Fresh mornings, birds singing and then the warmth of the sun catches you unaware ☺️
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Happy horses 🐎 = Happy Farrier 🔥
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I love my job 🙏😏

12/02/2025

It’s that time of year again! 🫶
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I forgot again 🤣 Until this order came through from a friend 😃

hahaha

01/01/2025

Wishing you and your four legged friends a very happy new year! 🎆
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I hope 2025 is filled with joy and prosperity for you all 🐎
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Remember - No Foot, No Horse 😉

#2025

22/10/2024

‼️ MAGGOTS ‼️

It is very important to avoid this because Maggots will eat deeper into the horse foot and will cause Lameness and infections… 🫣 Which as we all know can lead to far more serious problems for your horses health and wellbeing!

Why? How? 🤔 There are a few reasons for this -

How? - Flys will lay their eggs on muck / poo which the horse stands in and picks up the eggs, wedging them into either of the three clefts (Collateral & Central). Or the fly can lay its eggs directly in the clefts when the horse is laid down or resting its foot. The clefts are a dark, warm & moist environment which is perfect for the eggs to hatch into Larvae. 🐛

Why? (There are many, but here are two reasons…)

1. Most common - As we know some horses grow a lot of foot & frog between trims / shoeing, which make it difficult to access the clefts and clean out every bit of muck which contain the eggs.
2. Least common - Sadly, some people (NOT ALL) do not clean their horses feet out on a regular basis, allowing the eggs / larvae to mature and feast away before being removed from the foot.

I simply dig down and remove all the larvae and flush the foot with anti bacterial & anti fungal products with a syringe, which the customer continues to do multiple times per day until the foot heals over. Worse case scenario - The foot is cleaned and a shoe is applied with some form of permanent barrier to prevent re-infection whilst the foot heals 👍🏻

‼️ It is very important to keep your horse feet clean, your horses bed clean and feet picked out on a regular basis! ‼️

25/06/2024

‼️ For those of you who don’t know ‼️

My Sister and I have entered into the “World’s Toughest Row“ in 2026, where we will attempt to row 3000 miles unaided across the Atlantic Ocean 🌊 Our team name is ‘One Row Live It’ (inspiration from a saying we live by - One Life Live It). Our logo uses my Horseshoe I designed for my Farriery Logo, because we both have a strong equestrian background and that is what unites us together 💪🏻 .toughest.row

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We are raising money for two brilliant charities -

- The Royal National Lifeboat Institution 🛟 -
- Alzheimer’s Research UK 🧠 -

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Please take a look at our socials. Like, Follow, Share and if you can Donate 🙏🏻

Thank you!

Louis

07/05/2024

There was a time… a time called ‘The Apprenticeship’ when I was skinnier and this was an easy task 🤣
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I am sure that the fence’s are getting smaller… even the horse’s are questioning my ability 🥴🤣

29/03/2024

Farriers don’t ever want a horse to loose a shoe, but to provide the correct support for the equines foot, it means the shoe has to over hang the foot to compensate for the foot growth 🔥
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Only 6 / 7 nails hold the shoe on the foot. Yet the sheer power a horses has can bend their shoes dramatically like this…. 💪🏻 Have you ever tried to bend a shoe this much, cold? Have you ever tried to take a shoe off a horses foot? 😮‍💨
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It is absolutely astonishing how these tiny nails can hold the shoe on tight enough to allow for this to happen. If they were weak, the shoe would come off flat…. It’s just a thought the next time your horse looses a shoe, it takes some effort!!
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For the want of a nail the shoe was lost
For the want of a shoe the horse was lost
For the want of a horse the rider was lost
For the want of a rider the battle was lost
For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost
And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.

03/03/2024

Not my photo, but worth re sharing!

Lost shoes need to be found!
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If your horse stands on anything sharp such as glass / wood or rusty nails, they can pierce the sole of the foot and potentially cause serious damage to important structures such as the…
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1. Distal Phalanx (Pedal Bone)
2. Distal Sesamoid (Navicular) Bone
3. Podotrochlear (Navicular) Bursa
4. Deep Digital Flexor Tendon
5. Distal Impar Ligament
6. Distal Inter-phalangeal Articulation (Coffin Joint)
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…. And many more!! If these structures are seriously damage the prognosis could be fatal. Especially if a rusty nail causes Equine Tetanus! 🐎

05/01/2024

🔥 Fun Fact Friday 🔥

Horses are mammals just like us and therefore are very similar in many ways, they have roughly the same amount of bones in their skeleton as a human does, just a lot bigger and stronger! 💪🏻

Did you know that a Horse has approximately 205 bones in their skeleton compared to a Human skeleton that has approximately 206!? 😲

List of the Bones in the Equine Skeleton 💀 -

- Limbs - 20 in each (80 total)
- Sternum - 1
- Ribs - 36
- Skull - 34
- Vertebrae - 54 approximately (7 Cervical / 18 Thoracic / 6 Lumbar / 5 Sacral / 18-21 Coccygeal)

It is surprising to think that a Horse has a similar amount of bones as a human, especially when you think how much bigger they are! 🥴

30/12/2023

🔥 That’s me done now for 2023 🔥

Thank you to everyone who supported me through my tough start of 2023 (surgery and recovery 🤦‍♂️), and who have continued to support me and my business! 🙏🏻

I aim to be more active on social media in 2024 to promote 🕸 and gain more business 💪🏻

This Farrier is back to doing what he loves! 🔥

With that, I wish you, your family and your horses, a very happy & prosperous New Year 🥂

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