Best Hoof Forward

07/02/2023

Hello my friends! I’ve created a client form for all of my new and existing clients to fill out so I have your updated information! Please find it here:

Please take a couple minutes to fill out this updated client form! It is important for me to have the correct information about you and your horse(s).

04/02/2023

Love my clients ❤️

02/02/2023

Thrush is always a pain in the the butt to deal with. It’s gross coloured, smelly and painful. It usually appears as a mushy, black frog with flaps that hide the bacteria. If the thrush is bad enough, the horse will be very sensitive to the touch when picking the collateral grooves/frog and may even bleed. It can actually work it’s way up to the sensitive structures of the hoof. It’s often overlooked and seen as a “normal” thing for hooves to have, because it’s so common. What most owners don’t know is that it’s a serious pathology that needs to be treated accordingly!
So, how should we be treating this? The first step is to have your farrier/trimmer remove any packed in bacteria and necrotic tissue within the affected areas. This will expose the remaining infected area to the air. Ideally we should move the horse to a dry and clean environment. This can be hard to do with horses living outside 24/7, so the next best thing is to ensure you are cleaning your horses feet out often and applying a topical antiseptic or treatment. If you have a horse living indoors, make sure they have clean and fresh bedding daily. I usually recommend treating every day to every other day for the first week, then a few times a week for the next couple weeks.
Some things you can use to treat thrush are:
1. A diluted iodine water mix
2. Organic apple cider vinegar diluted 50/50 with warm water
3. A specific thrush treatment. I suggest using Artimud hoof clay, Pete’s Goo or even Desitin cream
I would stay away from Thrush Buster, bleach and any other harsh chemicals to treat this. If you wouldn’t put it on yourself, don’t put it on your horse!

23/01/2023

Today I have joined the Balanced Through Movement Method Masterclass, the Daniel Anz clinic in March, and Lisa Wesson's Intro to Manual Equine Lymphatic Drainage clinic in June! So excited to further my education in these ways and apply these techniques to my practice! Thankful for these opportunities.

24/12/2022

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Newt and I!

22/12/2022

We as farriers can only do so much by trimming/shoeing your horses. If your horse has other pathologies occurring in the rest of their body (ulcers, body soreness), a poor diet (high sugar/carbs), or just general discomfort and compensation, that will affect how the balance and how the hoof capsule is growing.

27/11/2022

Some pictures of Yukon’s glue on shoes 👞

27/11/2022

Yukon with his first full set of EasyShoe Versa Grip Glue on shoes.

Yukon is a special case. I started with him at the end of May, 2022. He was very unbalanced, long toed and toe first landing. He has paper thin retracted soles, as well as laminitis with some navicular changes. We don’t know much about his past, but his feet have told quite the story.

We started with naturally balanced barefoot trims, bringing his toes back to ease break over. He responded well to some trims, and not to others. We put him in Cloud boots and seemed to help. His soles were not getting any better, so we made the choice to put some glue shoes on.

He is in size 126’s, which is a lot bigger than we thought he would need. To pack the shoe, we used Equipak soft pour in pad, held in with mesh. These are his first steps in his new shoes.

According to owner, he is doing very well in these and moving around comfortably now. His owner is riding him walk, trot and canter with no problems!

29/08/2022

Played around with some glue on shoes yesterday on Newt. Safe to say he loves them and they have improved his landings already!

17/12/2021

Someone is an attention hog….

04/09/2021

Jed says “where did that come from?!”