Do you ride the day your horse is shod?

In all my years round horses i have heard the odd owner say they dont ride on the day their horses are shod (as the'r shoes are tight if i remember rightly) :confused:

But apart from one loan horse i had which was genuinely lame after shoeing there is no reason why they cant be ridden- same as the old 'dont ride after vaccinations' stigma!! :)
 
yes as i normally have to take time off work for the farrier and I am not going to waste a holiday day by not riding.
 
Just got back from having had the farrier.
I would normally try and ride before the farrier, but i wouldn't not ride after, tend not to as she can be a little footy after. Next day fine.
 
Asked my farrier about that years ago, he said that when he started working as a farrier years ago people rode their horses to the forge to be shod, and how did I think they got the horses back?
 
Not usually no, my farrier tends to come in the week while I'm at work, so the chances of them being rode the same day are very few and far between.

As a rule, yes I do prefer to ride the day after, something I've always done, it's something I've been brought up to do so I've just stuck with it to be honest, before anyone bombards me with questions as to why, don't, it's something I personally feel better doing, despite if it makes a blind bit of difference of not, thankfully I've never ridden a footy horse or pony yet.
 
Yes, absolutely. Why wouldn't you?! Until I saw a similar thread on this on this forum I had never heard of leaving a horse the day its been shod, and with anyone who felt the need to I would question their farrier's skills.
 
I would prefer the ride the day after. I only ride once or twice a week at the moment anyway and Belle finds the farrier visit quite stressful in itself so I'd rather just give her a treat afterwards and turn her back out. :)
 
When my boy was hot shod I could write off the following five days.
Now he's cold shod he can mostly be ridden the following day, but no, I would never ride the same day.

My boy has extremely delicate feet, grows hardly any hoof (for all the countless pounds spent on supplements) and having used four farriers (all very competent, but changed because of their time keeping skills (or lack of!) I had the same reaction with all of them until I changed a couple of years ago to my present cold-shoeing farrier.
 
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Yep - she's usually fine. Only time she was a bit feely was when we had a stand in guy while usual farrier away. Turns out that was an actual problem with how she'd been shod and we had months before it was right! Usual farrier again and not a problem to ride on shoeing day... The moral I took from that was good farrier = being able to ride on the day and many thereafter!!
 
Definitely, I don't get much time to ride at the moment being on placement doing crazy shifts plus having to work, I've never heard of people who don't ride after they have been shod unless they are foot or lame after why spend all that money to put shoes on a horse if you ain't gonna ride once they have been put on, I only get four weeks out a set of shoes due to the amount of work Taz does and I ain't gonna lose a day outta they four weeks for no one, don't get me wrong we are currently five weeks and not looking too bad but he's getting shod on Tuesday of next week thank fully
 
Depends on the horse to be honest. I had a TB who was usually always a little footy for a day or two after being shod, but none of my other horses (same farrier) were. As long as the horse is sound he can be ridden IMO.
 
No.

But then, Maiden has an old tendon injury that has never fully healed (and will never fully heal), so even if she's sound after the farrier, I wouldn't touch her anyway. No fault of the farrier's - he's helped to get and keep her sound over the last four years - just a badly-built old mare! :)

Any other horse - yes, but I wouldn't trot on the roads. No idea why - just doesn't feel right! Silly, maybe? I don't care though ;)
 
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