Re: New Shoes - Need Help

JBagford@aol.com
Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:03:18 -0500

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