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Mary,

 

If your farrier is all this....you need to treat him like his is gold plated and wait on him hand and foot.  :))

 

Jody

Mary Krauss <lazykfarm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thank all you Ridecampers. I printed out all your informative posts 
> for my farrier to read. Just wanted to add that, after reading all the 
> particular suggestions and general discussions here, I've grown even 
> more certain that our farrier is one of the best out there. He leaves 
> the edge you mentioned, he doesn't bend in the ends of the shoes and 
> contract the heels, he checks angles really carefully and keeps records 
> of what he's trying each time. He marks old shoes and keeps them for 
> cross-checking. He works for improved foot mass and better heels. He 
> understands the whole NB thing. He hot shoes when necessary. He goes 
> to conferences and workshops. He listens to vets and to me for 
> anything worth hearing. He's modest to a fault about his own 
> expertise, and, most of all, he pays close attention to the way the 
> horses move. Just wanted to
>  defend him from any little hints of 
> suspicion that he's somehow to blame for my coon-footed, paddling, 
> hollow-backed horse's problems.... I, on the other hand, am probably 
> to blame for most of the above....
>
> Thank all of you again for your very informed opinions. I understand 
> much more today than I did two days ago.
>
> Mary K. and a grateful Bruiser who didn't look completely as clownish 
> or move as awkwardly in his Old Macs as we thought he might.
>
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