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[RC] Boots - carolyn


I am exploring the boot option because I am not as lucky as Sandy.  After owning horses for almost 15 years, I have only had two decent farriers.  My second farrier that I found because I was selling a truck.  Traded the truck for farrier work.  He was very good.  He moved and what followed was awful. The first farrier I found when I moved to Texas two years ago was pretty good, would do what I asked, but he is a cop now.  No time for farrier work.  The rest have ranged between bad to horrible.  Most were expensive to ridiculous.  I am now doing it myself.  I can trim, but I can't nail shoes on yet, so I won't do what I can't do well.  So boots are my only solution right now.

I agree with Truman that Rube Goldberg would be proud of most of these boots.  They are impossible to get on and impossible to stay on.  No matter how tight.  I like the idea of the glove, but I don't want to glue them on.  It amazes me that someone cannot come up with something better, lighter and easier to use.

Carolyn Burgess
Newton, Texas

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [RC] Boots
From: Sandy Adams <sandydsa@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, June 30, 2009 9:17 am
To: Ridecamp Ridecamp <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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Having had one foray into boots, and having smaller Arabians, after  
much thought and weighing al options, we found that, with a quality  
farrier who DOES provide first a suitable trim, plain plates are the  
most workable solution. We DON'T shoe any horses until and unless they  
are going to a 50 miler. We live in pretty rugged terrain, yet our  
horses all conditioned TOTALLY barefoot for over a year! Boy do they  
have nice feet! So, between ride season, taking off all "footwear" and  
continuing to ride them as long as the seasons permit makes sense.  
WHat DOESN'T make sense to us is fighting so hard to make boots work  
for horses who don't seem to work well with them - just so no one  
whines to us about how we mistreat our horses by putting shoes on  
them, and believe me, we have had it. Of course, carrying a quality  
boot in the pack for emergencies is a good plan; but in the end, our  
horses simply go better and have SUPERB feet shoeing for competition  
and running barefoot the rest of the time. NO need for boots. In any  
case, boots get expensive as well, and I would prefer to put what $$  
we have into great feed, xlnt vet care, and going to maybe an  
additional event during the year. Works for all 3 of our working  
horses - and the rest are also BF>
S

Sandy Adams
Deep Sands Arabians







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