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Of course, bad farrier work can result in lost shoes.
It happens. Horses throw shoes sometimes when the
farrier has done everything right too.

chris
--- Michelle Fink <michrowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Chris wrote: "REALLY, the farrier's job is to
> balance the hoof,
> not to keep a shoe on."
>
> Yeah but...
>
> I used a farrier for a while, he shod a couple of my
> horses and they both
> lost hind shoes in the same week early into their
> shoeing after never losing
> shoes before.  I asked him if it was possible that
> there was a problem with
> the application, and he promptly quit!  Would not
> shoe for me again.  I
> later found out that a couple of my roper friends
> use him, and their horses
> are always losing shoes - one of my friends who
> ropes AND shoes says he has
> to nail shoes back on their horses almost every time
> they rope together.
=====
"A good horse makes short miles," George Eliot

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