[RC] training advice - thanks & update - Marlene Moss
Thank for all the great advice for my friend with the horse
that won’t back out of the trailer.I’m sharing it all with her and I think a lot of it will help –
when the right time comes.
The update is that my husband and I were over today to
remove the horses shoes and trim. During my first ride I started prying
into the shoing history of the horse because I was
concerned about the very long toes and feet overgrowing the shoes.Shoes had been on less than a
month!It was the only time this farrier had touched the horse and he never will again.
Really an atrocious job, shoes almost touched at the heel –
and the horse didn’t have contracted heels, hoof wall completely outside
the shoe.
We took 3 shoes off the horse and trimmed, in about half an
hour. Spent the
next 2 hours taking the horse off the last shoe because the horse would/could
not pick up his left rear.We
couldn’t figure out if he couldn’t balance on the right, or just
had some pain lifting the left.This is not a bad looking horse, fairly evenly muscled and actually he
was quite a sweatheart today except for refusing to
lift that foot.So hubby had to pry
the shoe down into the nice soft moist sand – quite an experience!
So now I will be riding with this lady on some decomposed
granite to finish the trim job, but she will also be immediately seeking the
help of a local vet/chiro to see if we can figure out
what’s up with this horse.
