Smug post! Head over heels with my farrier!

[Bounty]

I am SUCH a lucky girl.....!!!
The cherub that is Bamboozle managed to pull yet another shoe off in the stable overnight (have lost count of how many she's puled in the last 3 weeks).
I was fuming, almost to the point of calling a barefoot trimmer

. Got around to calling my farrier at 10.30, who told me that he'd be here in an hour

And this is despite the floods!
Will have coffee and biscuits ready for him, he deserves them!

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

It's always good to be on good terms & have a good farrier.....so many owners don't. I think that the major gripes on this forum are normally about farriers either not turning up or being late.
My farrier is punctual, phones if he's held up & will normally be out to you within 24 hours if you've lost a shoe or got some problem. When you'ver got a good one...make them tea, toast, biscuits anything...they are worth holding onto!

 

[Tangaroo]

Mine is the same. He is fantastic, always on time, phones if going to be late. No prob putting a lost shoe back on. He was farrier at one of the BE events i did and even took the time to come and watch me compete in each phase. He is genuinely interested in how the horses are going.

 

[Grumpy Herbert]

It's great when you have a good one. When I lived in Oxfordshire, my farrier once came out at 8.30pm on a freezing cold Friday to dig an abcess out of my geldings foot, by torchlight in a pitch black field. He even had to bring his mate with him, as they'd been off down the pub when I called! He then came out the next morning to check the foot over properly and he wouldn't take any extra money for doing it. Where I am now you're lucky to find any farrier let alone a good one!

 

[Bounty]

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I really do LOVE him.
He went through a phase a couple of years ago where he didn't know what punctual meant, but as he and his wife were trying to battle against her cancer it was perfectly understandable.
My only gripe with him is that he leaves the toes a bit long for my liking (but takes them back until I'm satisfied!) and only shoes hot if you go to his forge.
My mare is in foal, and I want a farrier that is more specialised in youngstock and shoes hot to do my youngster when the time comes - I'm dreading having to find another farrier; I know no one will come close to my current one in terms of the relationship (working, before you get any ideas!!

) we have and I really hope I don't offend my current one in the process

 

[*hic*]

I've got a wonder of a farrier too!

I didn't need him URGENT urgent this morning but I rang him to see if he would do one of my girls' feet before the weekend and he's coming out tomorrow.

I've rung him before fairly late in a panic and he's talked me through what to do (mare had nail in foot) and rang me first thing in the morning to tell me what to do next.

Mind you I always get him tea unless it's really hot when he has an icecream and I always offer to bring the horse over to somewhere convenient for him as I know we are right at the furthest extent of his "area" and he would like to cut down on clients!

I did also sell his horse for him in the past few weeks!