Your last words in this video were if you have any problems, just take the shoes off and let the horse be a horse for a while! As an international trainer, Australia and Europe I agree totally! I would even go as far to say few horses compete every week, regardless of occupation. So I would like to talk about shoeing! The farrier in most cases is only trying to replicate the most natural ideal angles and lengths for each horse through trimming and providing the correct shoes. First have the farrier shoe the horse. Measure the toe and heel length and angles of front and back hooves. This gives a base line for what is in most cases reasonable and acceptable. lets say circa every 4 weeks, take the shoes off and work the horse as normal letting nature trim the hooves to the same toe and heel lengths and replace the shoes. That's correct, with uncomplicated horses, for most horses natural is best. There are times when this is not possible if remedial hoof care is warranted, then ring the farrier! The older I became, the less time underneath a horse shoeing becomes the norm, at first I felt guilty, but horses soon let me know that what I was doing to save my back and money was doing them a service I had previously never even thought of! Pay your farrier to make a double set of shoes and give you a lesson or two on how to tack on a shoe so you dont have call him if the horse loses a shoe and it can not be found! Then buy another set of shoes and play around altering the newly bought shoes into the shape the farrier made to fit as spares! Every owner needs to learn to tack on a shoe properly anyway! Just to add to that: A veterinary once told me to use 1 part chlorine to 20 parts water to make home made "chlorhexadine" as a basic stable antiseptic substitute! Yes, basic toilet chlorine! It is cheep, cheep! My horses swear by it! Regards from Europe at the moment!
hi there you remind me of my dressage teacher . she lived on a lovely property and looked after all the horses . here in australia that is . and yes im very good at dressage . you even look like her and she is american . it brings back good memories .
I love all this information! And their less is more approach is refreshing for such a big operation... It helps when your horse is such an angel with his feet, haha- some of the school horses I groom are not so polite; I think one of them had some pain that was causing his bad behaviour, he started getting very agitated when you tried to clean his left front hoof, but he was a cranky one to start with and I didn't know him that well yet, it turns out that he had a large crack develop in the hoof he was angry about having cleaned... I feel so bad, one of the trainers was smacking him a little (this horse does equine therapy, and he was scaring the kids) to make him behave, and the whole time he was just in pain... Poor Jesse! How in the world did/do horses survive in the wild? Who picks their feet in the wild, haha? My bf can't get over how fragile horses seem, he brings this up all the time...😁😂
Really loving these inside looks at such a well organized barn! Lots of really great information!
What a very smart barn...and so educational too...
Your last words in this video were if you have any problems, just take the shoes off and let the horse be a horse for a while!
As an international trainer, Australia and Europe I agree totally!
I would even go as far to say few horses compete every week, regardless of occupation.
So I would like to talk about shoeing!
The farrier in most cases is only trying to replicate the most natural ideal angles and lengths for each horse through trimming and providing the correct shoes.
First have the farrier shoe the horse.
Measure the toe and heel length and angles of front and back hooves.
This gives a base line for what is in most cases reasonable and acceptable.
lets say circa every 4 weeks, take the shoes off and work the horse as normal letting nature trim the hooves to the same toe and heel lengths and replace the shoes.
That's correct, with uncomplicated horses, for most horses natural is best.
There are times when this is not possible if remedial hoof care is warranted, then ring the farrier!
The older I became, the less time underneath a horse shoeing becomes the norm, at first I felt guilty, but horses soon let me know that what I was doing to save my back and money was doing them a service I had previously never even thought of!
Pay your farrier to make a double set of shoes and give you a lesson or two on how to tack on a shoe so you dont have call him if the horse loses a shoe and it can not be found!
Then buy another set of shoes and play around altering the newly bought shoes into the shape the farrier made to fit as spares!
Every owner needs to learn to tack on a shoe properly anyway!
Just to add to that:
A veterinary once told me to use 1 part chlorine to 20 parts water to make home made "chlorhexadine" as a basic stable antiseptic substitute!
Yes, basic toilet chlorine! It is cheep, cheep!
My horses swear by it!
Regards from Europe at the moment!
hi there you remind me of my dressage teacher . she lived on a lovely property and looked after all the horses . here in australia that is . and yes im very good at dressage . you even look like her and she is american . it brings back good memories .
Man, these are really good videos!!! I have kept all the grooming ones!! THANK YOU
Farriers Fix hoof oil is amazing. Thanks for another great video!
hi from australia i love your videos there excellent
Is this barn located in Wellington?
I love all this information! And their less is more approach is refreshing for such a big operation... It helps when your horse is such an angel with his feet, haha- some of the school horses I groom are not so polite; I think one of them had some pain that was causing his bad behaviour, he started getting very agitated when you tried to clean his left front hoof, but he was a cranky one to start with and I didn't know him that well yet, it turns out that he had a large crack develop in the hoof he was angry about having cleaned... I feel so bad, one of the trainers was smacking him a little (this horse does equine therapy, and he was scaring the kids) to make him behave, and the whole time he was just in pain... Poor Jesse!
How in the world did/do horses survive in the wild? Who picks their feet in the wild, haha? My bf can't get over how fragile horses seem, he brings this up all the time...😁😂