I do not hot shoe, in fact, if it doesn't come out
of a box and shape with an anvil and a three pound hammer, some one else can do
it- and in the last 20 years, you can pretty much buy any shoe out of a
box-clips, rolled toes, creases, wedges, bars, eggbars....
I shoed full time for 15+ years, sometimes doing
800+ horses a year in keg shoes shaped cold. There was enough good
business for me to never do more than I was capable of--I sent more than a few
to other farriers because they needed more than I was willing to do, and did so
without quams.
My own endurance horses, and those of my friends
that I shod, have been 10s of thousands of miles with very little trouble.
In 7000 miles myself, I have never lost a shoe. There is more than one way
to skin a cat correctly, and it doesn't always take "smoke" and
mirrors.
Laura Hayes Vine Cliff Farms Brocton,
NY AERC# 2741
