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poiuytrewq

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I am on the hunt for a new farrier. However I have two horses with missing shoes and so have kept my current appointment which is today, I hope as I’ve not been able to contact him since the lost shoes on Friday but this is pre booked so I figured at least it buys me time to get things sorted and gets us over the Christmas period. I can’t see anyone taking on new clients between now and NY
Got them both in out of the mud and gave legs a good wash so they are clean and dry this afternoon.
Took the opportunity to take a couple of photos while clean and to use as comparisons in the future.
Of course she is due, 5 weeks today and is missing one so not the best time to photograph.

However, I noticed this. wtf! It hasn’t been there the whole time, like this. I do pick her feet out (!) and although my eyesight leaves a bit to be desired I’d not have missed this. Also it’s sharp on your hand even if I’d been totally blind!
I don’t wash her legs usually, just for the farrier or on occasion if I want a good look at something.
Assume it’s been hidden and I’ve blasted it out with the hose making it more visible.
Acceptable or just careless?
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Yes I think you're both right. It looked much finer to me initially but more wire like in the photo zoomed in (as do my poor hands, yay for winter!)
I don't own pliers but farrier will be here after lunch and she is stood on so should be fine.
 
I've just had a really nasty thought. Mr P put chicken wire round an area of fencing- The other side of the electric to prevent a small naugty pony escaping. It was pulled up the other day as if somethig had been messing round with it, I'd assumed from the outside rather than field side but I wonder now if she's the one trying to break out. Almost a bit scared to go see what state its all in.
They are not supposed to be out there until the fence is properly done and secured but I have to walk them over a very stony area to get to the other field so with missing shoes I'd decided they would be ok for a few days... aarrrghhh
 
I hope that today's farrier visit goes as well as possible, and that if the wire is from that she has messed with some netting outside the fence, that it can be easily fixed. Is it perhaps possible that she rolled too close to the fence, and with maximal bad luck, somehow managed to hook the end of that shoe to the net?

Alternatively, if you have badgers living nearby, maybe they messed with the netting first, afterwards came your horse, and somehow got that piece stuck between shoe and hoof. I've had trouble for several years at my Summer cabin, with badgers messing with my fence netting, so that they can go in and out of my garden whenever, wherever they like.
 
I've been and poo picked and they have indeed broken the main inner fence, breaking wooden posts out of the ground and so were able to get to the chicken wire behind and I can see where she had caught herself on it. Luckily with shoes they can go back in the proper field this evening until we can re-do the other fencing properly.

I find this kind of situ so stressful and difficult to deal with. Aside from the problems today is the first time we are going to try her weaned off the sedation and If I'm to be finding someone new she really needs to be vastly inproved on the first time she was shod (the only time without seds since I've had her)
I'm hopeful, I have no problem picking feet out etc now wheras It was hard work to put it mildly at first.

So I'm quietly worryig about both/all factors and could do with a glass of red already.

FinnishLapphund, I'm pretty sure they just tried to force through the first and she probably pawed into the mesh. I'd love to have badgers nearby!
 
Are the heels underrun as well? They look like they are going forward at a sharper angle than toes and pasterns but I'm not very good with feet (trying to learn).
 
poiuytrewq said:
I've been and poo picked and they have indeed broken the main inner fence, breaking wooden posts out of the ground and so were able to get to the chicken wire behind and I can see where she had caught herself on it. Luckily with shoes they can go back in the proper field this evening until we can re-do the other fencing properly.

I find this kind of situ so stressful and difficult to deal with. Aside from the problems today is the first time we are going to try her weaned off the sedation and If I'm to be finding someone new she really needs to be vastly inproved on the first time she was shod (the only time without seds since I've had her)
I'm hopeful, I have no problem picking feet out etc now wheras It was hard work to put it mildly at first.

So I'm quietly worryig about both/all factors and could do with a glass of red already.

FinnishLapphund, I'm pretty sure they just tried to force through the first and she probably pawed into the mesh. I'd love to have badgers nearby!
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Isn't there some saying about Luck and Unluck evens out overall? Anyway, sounds as if even though you were unlucky with them breaking down the fence, you where also lucky with them not getting injured, and having the farrier already booked for today, so that they newly shod can go back into other field.

I also loved having badgers nearby at first. It didn't bother me that they dug up the lawn a bit, the problem was that if the badgers messed up my fence enough for themselves to get in/out, it also meant they left gaps big enough for my late dogs to get out, and run up onto the road... None of them got run over, but the thought of the risk it put them in, still gives me a knot in my stomach. I'm afraid I don't quite love living close to badgers as much as I used to.
 
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