That showed the farrier!

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Some of you may have read my posts about my mare who wont pick her feet up. Well I have been working solidly for 8 weeks now and she is a star with her front feet now, no leaning/rearing/walking forward/tail swishing at all. (backs a re still work in progress!) Yesterday the farriers came to the yard, my mare didnt need doing but was stood waiting for her dinner on the yard. The one chap pointed over and said thats the mare of a horse who wont have her feet done! One of the other chaps looked over and my neice walked up to my mare and proceeded to pick up both fronts as just 4 weeks ago it took vet sedation and 3 men to get her feet off the floor.....both farriers looked amazed!
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I am as proud as punch that she picked her feet up so easily especially in front of the farriers (extra carrots for her!). So I have 4 weeks to sort the back feet out to avoid sedation, but when her feet are the size of dinner plates, you really dont want one whizzing past your head as you try and pick it up!
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Well done
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Practise pays off.

I too have a horse who isn't great with his feet.

He's always been mostly ok with his front (now perfect) but for some reason, 6months ago,, he decided he was quite possibly going to die if someone lifted his right hind off the ground for more than a second. The only reason I can think of was I tried to scrub his frogs with hibiscrub and he didn't like it. Rather an overly-dramatic reaction to a bit of water, but then he is the biggest drama queen I've ever met.

But for the last week he's quiety and happily lifted and held all four feet up (not at the same time obviously
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) to be trimmed AND have his frogs disinfected. Not quite ready to have shoes on the backs but he should be fine for the fronts. Fingers crossed.
 
Well done! One small step at a time...or hoof..... then it'll all become clearer to her and you'll be home and hosed!
 
well done you!!! So nice when things go so well and even better when you can show someone like that what a bit of time and effort can do
 
well done

I think you will find that this is normally all it takes and something a lot of owners cant seem bothered with doing but then dont want their horses sedated either.

No one in my profession can afford to get injured and the training of the horse is down to the owner. However i always approach horses with patience as this goes along way too.

Well done on putting the work in... the results speak for themselves
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Completely agree, Farrier. Me and my farrier have had a couple of ranting sessions about owners who are sooooo apologetic about their horse trying to maim the poor unfortunate trying to trim/shoe, but then the next time, you find that they haven't even taken the beast out of the field. I had a pony rear up and slam a hoof on the back of my neck. I fired the client on the spot, when I discovered that she had done NO work whatsoever on either of her ponies. The other was a NF that threw himself to the floor, he was so terrified. She hadn't so much as picked his feet out, but somehow thought that he would be fine to hold them for me...

Sorry, mini rant, there. Well done, OP! Good luck with the backs.
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