Does anyone here shoe their own horses

[Patterdale]

I've taken shoes off before if they've sprung or for a poisoned foot, which you are allowed to do for welfare reasons.

Wouldnt dare put one on!

 

[Avonbrook]

As a footnote to history, when the 1975 Act was brought in there was a category known as "D list" to cover farriers who had been working prior to the Act but who did not want to fulfill the new requirements to comply fully with the registration procedure. They were allowed to continue to shoe their own horses but no-one elses. The D list was a closed list and I shouldn't think too many of these farriers are still shoeing now. The one I knew died over 20 years ago...

 

[Goldenstar]

Very very scary Had a bizzare bit of info passed on to me yesterday by our farrier, he insists that in Germany the owner has to hold the horses leg up in some sort of harness for the farrier to work on the foot He did agree that he wouldn't be trying that in a hurry

This was the norm in turkey except of it was not the owners it was a groom.

 

[The mad TB]

My friend does his own...

He's a farrier

 

[Lanky Loll]

As a footnote to history, when the 1975 Act was brought in there was a category known as "D list" to cover farriers who had been working prior to the Act but who did not want to fulfill the new requirements to comply fully with the registration procedure. They were allowed to continue to shoe their own horses but no-one elses. The D list was a closed list and I shouldn't think too many of these farriers are still shoeing now. The one I knew died over 20 years ago...

I know of one working who's still on the D list although he's very nearly retired.

Dad shoes ours.. but then he's a fully Q & Reg'd Farrier (he was one of the earliest intakes to Hereford)

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

so..................... nobody gonna own up then?? haha