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15/05/2023

Dear past clients, friends and colleagues

Officially hanging up my rasp this week as a hoof care provider in order to devote more time to our growing cattle business and my little horse breaking venture at home.

I have spent 8 wonderful years doing something I have been passionate for, but also that takes a physical and emotional toll especially after 3 la Nina Summers.

I am so excited about the newcomers in the trimming and farrier community and know that hoof care in the Northern Rivers is in great hands. I can pass on contact details for those who are looking.

If I have any parting thoughts, it is to remember the value of collaboration between professionals, even if the approach is sometimes different. Too much knowledge is wasted simply because egos and business models restrict sharing of information skills and experience.

Thanks for a great occupation and for the many friends I have made over the years.

22/12/2022

And that's a wrap on hoof care for 2022.

I would like to thank and give best wishes to clients, friends and colleagues for Christmas and the New Year. Hope you get a rest, and recharge for hopefully an easier and prosperous and most of all, healthful and happy 2023.

Dan

13/09/2022

Even though I'm doing fewer hooves than I've done since I started in 2015, I feel like it's important to warn folks that now is the time that damage can occur in equine feet that will carry on and present issues throughout the year.

With warm weather at night and still saturated soils, the nasty dichotomy of green grass flushes and wet soils combine to create havoc in horses hooves.

Don't leave it till it's too late to provide regular hoofcare, and restrict, if possible, too much green grass for at risk equines (including donkeys).

Keeping feet dry for even a few hours a day and tightening your trim cycle, can be the difference between sore, infected feet and a sound horse. Especially with the predicted La Nina forming and the compromised state in many hooves from the previous ones.

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Not a great video but I love watching sound horses moving off after they are trimmed - in this case these 3 stockhorse mares this morning. They live on granite gravel and I'm extremely jealous! Although it doesn't happen every time, I believe a horse should be the same or better in soundness after they are trimmed. Unless an underlying condition exists (and sometimes even then) it means that a mistake has been made. We all make mistakes and it's a difficult profession to get it right all the time, but it's good to know how a horse is after the trim in case you need to tweak something next time. Underlying conditions that can lead to post trim lameness are varied but the big one is subclinical or low grade laminitis, particularly at this time of the year with the amount of grass around. Treading carefully can mean not exacerbating already sore and inflamed feet, but doesn't address the cause, which the owner should be diligent in addressing. I know it's difficult. 99 times out of 100 post trim looks like this - beautiful horses moving across the terrain to which their hooves are accustomed.

Look out for Part 1 of my Desert Hoofprints travel journal - coming soon to Equine News and Trade Services Directory.

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