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My farrier is very good. He's been around for a long time and does a 
very good job. When he is shaping a shoe in the forge he will hold it up 
to the foot and might draw some smoke but he doesn't "hot shoe." When he 
resets a shoe there is no burned hoof. I asked him one time why some 
farriers hot shoe ( I had one I had to get in CO when we were there that 
went throught this whole hot shoeing diatribe and ended up laming our 
horses - the only time they have ever been lame).

My farrier said point blank - "some of these guys that call themselves a 
farrier can't balance and prepare a foot for a shoe with a rasp so they 
just burn it flat with a hot shoe to cover up their mistakes."

Truman

Chris Paus wrote:

> Well, as for it making a good seal, I dunno about that.
>  
> Star has been cold shod for the 9 years I've had him. In that time, 
> he's lost a grand total of 3 shoes and each were when we went way past 
> the ideal reset date.
>  
> My other horse Zab, loses shoes no matter what. My former farrier has 
> gone to greath lengths to make special shoes, toe clips, and hot shoe 
> them on. And two days later a shoe is missing, sometimes two.
>  
> I think "keeping the shoes on" has as much to do with the horse as it 
> does with the shoer and the technique.
>  
> chris



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