AAAAAAARGGGHHHHH FARRIER!!!

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I posted last week about my silly, over sensitive farrier.
Well he came and shod my horse on Friday. Good job done, or so it seemed. Yesterday my horse threw a shoe half way round the XC comp I did yesterday (still came 5th yay me
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) but now when I have text my farrier asking him to come and put the shoe back on (I went and found it on the XC course, getting sunburnt in the process LOL) he has not replied.
Should I keep texting and bugging him or just try and get another visiting farrier to put the shoe back on? I work during the day so this will be difficult but I have an important show next Sunday and I will be mightily peeved if I miss it and can't ride my horse for the next week or two! Grrrrr I know this is a tiny problem in the scale of things but I needed a rant - my horse keeps me sane at the moment with everything else that's going on in my life. Is it me, or are farriers either brilliant and lovely or absolutely useless and over sensitive? Ive never met one who's on middle ground!!
 
If you cant get hold of your farrier and there is someone elses due to come on to the yard then I would ask them if they can bang it back on. My farrier would'nt mind if I done that he is really easy going x.
 
Yeh I will ask another farrier I think as I really dont want mine to shoe my horse ever again, he is the most expensive and obviously not the best! That shoe didnt even stay on for two days and it came clean off!
 
Think about over reach boots both for turn out and riding
Been through this and once a hoof is slightly damaged shoes will continue to be pulled
Various thoughts/opinions but I would not consider shoes 'sufficiently bedded in' 2 days after shoeing to go cross country
It takes a lot of 'juggling' to get dates of shoeing 'right' when you are competing regularly but dont always blame farrier
 
Im not blaming the farrier about the shoe coming off, as I understand about bedding in, I wasnt vaguely surprised when I realised one had come off. The farrier dictates when he's going to come, not me, - he gives me an appointment, and in Summer Im out competing on grass every weekend so its not surprising it will happen every now and then - what I was bothered about was thinking he would not come back to put it back on. Surprisingly he is going to. I just needed a rant!!
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I cant use overreach boots for turning out as he is very sensitive skinned and gets sores underneath them but for riding I could, good thought.
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