Re: New Shoes - Need Help
Allen Xrealname Linda Eisele (linda@ghostridr.reno.nv.us)
Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:20:03 -0800 (PST)
At 01:03 PM 11/24/96 -0500, JBagford@aol.com wrote:
>I am very interested in seeing replies to this. As my horse travels down the
>trail we are accompanied by a very noticable click-click. I am on my 4th
>farrier, he's a great guy, pays a lot of attention to how the horse wears her
>shoes (but not enough to how she actually goes-just my opinion). He is the
>best I've had yet, but when we talk about her clipping her shoes he says
>"Some horses do that". I have to belive that anything repeatedly hitting my
>mares feet is bad, espescially when it is another foot. I am at my wits end.
>I hate to change farriers again, since you can't tell what kind of a job they
>are going to do untill they come out and do it. The one I had out before this
>was AWFULL. My horses toes were so long she looked like she had foundered
>after he trimed her. When I asked him to shorten them he said " Look, Hon, I
>know what I'm doing. This is how we shoe racehorses." I told him to get out
>NOW.
>
>Thaks for letting me vent.
>Jane
>
I had luck with having the toes shortened and squared, helped alot.
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Linda Eisele & Sareei and ('')\
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