Kellys Heroes
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Just a bit of a happy glad-its-sorted post really..!!
Yesterday whilst waiting for the vet, I was asked to help with a youngster of our friends with the farrier - he's a rescue horse and still very very 'wild' for want of a better word. You can touch one of his feet, but not his back, as he kicks off, kicking, biting, rearing - god knows what's happened to him in the past. They found this farrier via recommendations.
Anyhow as we were waiting for the farrier, they were telling us how by trade he is a barefoot trimmer, but will shoe - he isn't much more expensive than our usual one (who has messed us about terribly, taking money and generally messing Kelly's feet up) and apparently shod Red Rum!
To cut a long story short, the way he dealt with this youngster simply astounded me
He picked one foot up and without even doing anything to it, said "he's had an abcess there, this has happened there, that needs doing etc". As he was leaping round in the air, pulling faces and being a prat, the farrier just kept a gentle hold, talking to him (NOT keeping a tight scary hold of him) and eventually he calmed down and had all 4 feet trimmed within 10 minutes 
Without pushing for business or asking for payment, he happily had a look at Kelly's feet for us - I posted on here a while ago when she had full blown lami about her heart bars whether they were meant to cover the full frog or not...it turns out our current farrier has used an eggbar shoe and welded a bit on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She is still intermittently very slightly lame in trot, but being ridden, fine in walk canter etc and very full of herself and full of character.
He also said that her feet are the complete wrong shape and her foot needs to be trimmed back and straight to correspond with the rotated pedal bone rather than being rounded - he said this was putting more pressure on the laminae, hence why she was still slightly lame. Our question was "do you think you can put it right?" he said "yeah, can't see why not!"
Without pressure from him, we booked him for a weeks time! He said he didn't need to see the x-rays but I am tempted to still bring them and a laptop down to the yard just because of our previous experiences with the last farrier saying he didn't need the xrays then leaving her feet another 2 weeks (the vet says rotation WILL have worsened if only slightly because of him not listening to us)....do you guys think he will be p!s$ed off if we ask him just to look??
He reckons he can have her sound within a couple of weeks of being shod...in time for the veteran class at Croft Top which we were debating on!! fingers crossed!!!!
Yesterday whilst waiting for the vet, I was asked to help with a youngster of our friends with the farrier - he's a rescue horse and still very very 'wild' for want of a better word. You can touch one of his feet, but not his back, as he kicks off, kicking, biting, rearing - god knows what's happened to him in the past. They found this farrier via recommendations.
Anyhow as we were waiting for the farrier, they were telling us how by trade he is a barefoot trimmer, but will shoe - he isn't much more expensive than our usual one (who has messed us about terribly, taking money and generally messing Kelly's feet up) and apparently shod Red Rum!
To cut a long story short, the way he dealt with this youngster simply astounded me
He picked one foot up and without even doing anything to it, said "he's had an abcess there, this has happened there, that needs doing etc". As he was leaping round in the air, pulling faces and being a prat, the farrier just kept a gentle hold, talking to him (NOT keeping a tight scary hold of him) and eventually he calmed down and had all 4 feet trimmed within 10 minutes Without pushing for business or asking for payment, he happily had a look at Kelly's feet for us - I posted on here a while ago when she had full blown lami about her heart bars whether they were meant to cover the full frog or not...it turns out our current farrier has used an eggbar shoe and welded a bit on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She is still intermittently very slightly lame in trot, but being ridden, fine in walk canter etc and very full of herself and full of character.He also said that her feet are the complete wrong shape and her foot needs to be trimmed back and straight to correspond with the rotated pedal bone rather than being rounded - he said this was putting more pressure on the laminae, hence why she was still slightly lame. Our question was "do you think you can put it right?" he said "yeah, can't see why not!"
Without pressure from him, we booked him for a weeks time!
He said he didn't need to see the x-rays but I am tempted to still bring them and a laptop down to the yard just because of our previous experiences with the last farrier saying he didn't need the xrays then leaving her feet another 2 weeks (the vet says rotation WILL have worsened if only slightly because of him not listening to us)....do you guys think he will be p!s$ed off if we ask him just to look??He reckons he can have her sound within a couple of weeks of being shod...in time for the veteran class at Croft Top which we were debating on!!
fingers crossed!!!!
