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That is always the drawback with farriers....they DON'T want to listen.  As endurance riders, I don't think that we are asking the farriers to do something to the feet that is unhealthy.  BUT, as a farrier, I was taught that if the owner wants you to shoe a horse in a manner that is not hoof healthy, that you should drop that client.  I have one time, dropped a client.  It was a QH stallion, ex-halter horse, a really georgous horse, but he had the most horrible contracted heels.  They wanted to continue to stuff him into shoes too tight.  I stopped shoeing him.

Carolyn Burgess <carolyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm learning now because I am so DISGUSTED at the work that I have had done by numerous farriers in our area.  They all chop off the heels and leave the toes way to long.  I have had no less than 10 farriers in 10 years.  We live in an area where farriers can charge upwards of $300/4 shoes, so many look at this as a lucrative career and couldn't give two sh*ts about what their work will do to the horse.

 

While I have done my share of firing farriers, I have been fired by two of them.  They don't like my being critical of their work or asking them to do things a certain way.  I certainly could do a better job than most of them because I CARE about my horses.

 

Carolyn Burgess

j marshall <jen4marshall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am curious how many riders shoe and/or trim their
own horses.

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