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That with all their experience and advice on how to keep your horse on the perfect barefoot diet, with paradise paddock, no grass, expensive supplements and barefoot rehab, that a trimmer would be able to diagnose and treat a simple abscess..........NO!!!!

Instead the poor horse's owner has been reassured by lady trimmer that the horse is 'slighty footy' due to the wet ground and of course his diet. When asked to check for any possibles she simply looked the horse over and gave a gentle squeeze to its foot, leaving with an all clear and see you at the next appointment.

Poor horse and poor owner, not only could it have been dealt with days ago, saving said horse the discomfort, it could have avoided the need for a vet visit.

I personally am glad I chose to sick with the farrier even when we were barefoot and now wouldnt touch a trimmer with a 6 foot long rasp.
 
It's part of the farrier's job to relieve pain.

They are allowed to pare the foot to release pus.

Have always wondered how a trimmer dealt with an abcess.
 
I agree, there are good trimmers and not so good trimmers, same as farriers, vets and every other profession.

I've also known a vet miss an abscess, and not every abscess needs to be treated by paring a hole in the hoof.
 
Agree not every abcess needs paring, just dealt with one which poulticing was sufficient. A vet once diagnosed a horse of mine with a sprained accessory ligament when in fact he had an abcess. OH is a farrier and deals with abcesses regularly. The important thing is the welfare of the horse which in relation to an abcess is relief of pain and appropriate treatment to release the infected material, as it is not a good idea to leave infection rumbling away.
 
depending on the situation barefooters will also often to opt to allow the abscess to find its own way out (often heel/coronet band) to allow the foot to stay intact/quicker healing - to even suggest it was just footy makes me think this horse wasn't hopping at that point so digging then might have been pretty pointless?)- rather than paring away hoof.

I am quite happy with the competancy of my uknchp trimmer.
 
Farrier and trimmers are allowed to diagnose abscess and dig them out if their is resentment to pressurewith hoof testers, how else would a teack become open without bursting or working its way up the foot and coming out of the coronary band. Our farriers work with our vets all the time and usally call the vet when they are about to replate a horse to race when they find there is an abscess brewing. I cant see how allowing an abscess to find its own way lut can be attributed to quicker healing, more damage more like.

I have no faith in barefoot trimmers, overpriced and not skilled enough. Farrier all the time for me even though mine are all barefoot
 
quicker healing because you don't have to regrow sole on a horse that relies on part of it's sole for weight baring (compared to a shod horse).
 
dreamchaser said:
That with all their experience and advice on how to keep your horse on the perfect barefoot diet, with paradise paddock, no grass, expensive supplements and barefoot rehab, that a trimmer would be able to diagnose and treat a simple abscess..........NO!!!!

Instead the poor horse's owner has been reassured by lady trimmer that the horse is 'slighty footy' due to the wet ground and of course his diet. When asked to check for any possibles she simply looked the horse over and gave a gentle squeeze to its foot, leaving with an all clear and see you at the next appointment.

Poor horse and poor owner, not only could it have been dealt with days ago, saving said horse the discomfort, it could have avoided the need for a vet visit.

I personally am glad I chose to sick with the farrier even when we were barefoot and now wouldnt touch a trimmer with a 6 foot long rasp.
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Like no farrier or vet ever missed an abscess :D
 
sandi_84 said:
In the US (according to the all knowing oracle that is a quick google ;)) farriers are not allowed to treat abscesses.

In the uk they are :)
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In the UK it's a grey area .
Strictly in the UK a vet and only a vet can diagnose what's wrong with a horse .
But we have a long standing custom of allowing farriers to dig out poisoned feet so it's a sort of allowed to happen .
With the situation ATM a trimmer would have to be bat **** crazy to dig out a Poisoned foot they would risk ending up in court .
 
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