Recent content by ktrouble144

Well she wasn't sound before or after, I'm probably going to end up pulling her shoes and starting over with her barefoot again. The only problem is we only have like 4 farriers in the area.

My mare is a co-own, the other owner suggested the trimming to the farrier before I had a chance to talk to her about it. Before then the farrier was taking a little off at a time trying to help her get sound again. I like my farrier now, he knows she is pigeon toed and stated she will never be...

Her feet grow irregularly her left grows faster than the right so he had to take a bit off the get them even again and so it wouldn't mess up her back. She over reached even without shoes but I'm tempted to get them pulled in two weeks and see if she does better. She was lame before the trim too...

The conditions where we event are terrible, lot's of rain and she was slipping barefoot so I was going to try studs.

I have a great three day eventing mare, last October we were going to our first horse trial and she became very irritable about her feet so we cancelled. We then noticed her feet were bit on the long side for her but average for most horses, (she is used to having short feet) so we had a farrier...