Lost front shoe, how would your farrier respond??

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I wouldn't ride Henry with just one front shoe on - a hind yes, but not the front. My farrier would normally pop over when he was passing and stick a shoe back on whether Henry was due the following week or not. If he couldn't get to me for a week, I wouldn't ride. Am I soft too then?!
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No, I don't think so. I wouldn't ride with a front missing either and would only ride in the school if he was missing a hind.
 
Eeek! I can barely get my boy out of his field if he looses a shoe. Riding doesn't even come into it! My farrier has always been very helpful over coming out to replace.
 
Our farrier wouldn't bother to come at all before the next scheduled visit unless he was either incidentally close by, or we were going to do something away from home. All ours are on soft ground / tracks all the time other than literally about 400m of road occasionally so as far as he's concerned they are fine a shoe down.

Never seems to bother either our front shod or all shod to be short a shoe.

He does live 50miles away though.
 
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Mine would be out ASAP bang on another FOC but def wouldnt ride without a front

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I wouldn't expect to have a free bee unless the shoe had come off with a couple of days of the shoeing. And even then I usually make him a bacon sarnie and chuck him a fiver!
 
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This time of year is particularly difficult as daylight hours are very short and some customers don't have much in the way of lighting where they keep their horses.


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Yep! And some customers DO take the pi** with their farriers (and then moan like crazy if their farrier 'drops' them!)

My farrier has had some doozies: the customer who leaves muddy horse in muddy field for farrier to catch (and it's always a b****** to catch!) The one who can't pick up their yearling's feet (having never tried until last week) so calls the farrier out to trim it and wonders why he suggests they handle the bloody thing first!

My golden rules for looking after my farrier:

1. Horses caught (if living out), feet and legs cleaned off in plenty of time.
2. Well lit concrete area for shoeing.
3. Cup of tea (and biscuits) on arrival.
4. Someone close by to hold anything that needs it.
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5. (possibly most important!) If I can't pick up and handle a horse's feet safely, I sure don't ask my farrier to trim/shoe it!!

Farriers are self-employed and if they can't work - because some ill-mannered git has kicked them - they don't get paid! Don't expect your farrier to do YOUR job or he's entitled to tell YOU to do HIS job!
 
The horse shouldnt be to bothered if she stays on soft terrain if she wants to ride on roads or rough/hard surfaces she could get those rubber boots that go on the horses feet i forget what they are called though we had them for one of our old horses because when he had his shoes taken off his feet would be very sensitive at first to rocks and tarmac and so and so, with the boots he would be fine
 
My horses are only shod in front and if they lost a front then I would only ride in the school - not out hacking... Farrier is very good though as we're a large yard so comes up within a day or so of being called so it wouldn't be too long to wait!
 
I don't expect a freebie. My farrier just takes great pride in his work and treats it as a presonal insult if a horse he has shod loses a shoe.
He is well looked after and always gets cups of tea and clean feet on arrival
 
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