RHM
Well-Known Member
After a chat with my farrier and an impromptu trimming lesson with him, he would like me to rasp the edges of my boys hooves between visits. They are growing pretty fast at the moment and he can only come to the yard on a 8-9weekly basis. He is more than happy for me to start doing this (more happy than me tbh!) but I will be having a couple more lessons before cracking on.
I was wondering if anyone has any good resources videos/books etc as I would like to educate myself further before taking this on!! Just to stipulate I will only be doing a light rasp on his advice and the pony in question will still be seeing the farrier every 8/9 weeks.
If anyone has any good “beginner†rasps they could recommend that would be great too, I felt the farrier ones to be too sharp so I could accidentally take too much off. Or maybe a good kick up the arse would be needed as in my farriers words “an idiot could trim these hooves†as they are so straightforward!
I was wondering if anyone has any good resources videos/books etc as I would like to educate myself further before taking this on!! Just to stipulate I will only be doing a light rasp on his advice and the pony in question will still be seeing the farrier every 8/9 weeks.
If anyone has any good “beginner†rasps they could recommend that would be great too, I felt the farrier ones to be too sharp so I could accidentally take too much off. Or maybe a good kick up the arse would be needed as in my farriers words “an idiot could trim these hooves†as they are so straightforward!