i shoe at weekends and maybe take a day off midweek , most of my clients work , as i see it they earn their money and i need it, so i do my best...
LOL , Eric the reason i like the mustad shoe and kerk shoes is because of that square toe behind , as i said before i like to set the hind toe...
please excuse my ignorance , can you point out the keratoma to me ? chris
David do you remember years back when Martin passed his fwcf , released the book and Mac was just starting mfc ? this was when the wcf and the frc...
Eric in here in the uk all apprentices have to make shoes as a basic criteria , too many it gets in the blood and like John , David , Gary...
i like John would prefer to nail on only handmades but due to old age and idleness i am using more readymades . i am about 50/50 at the minute ....
the only way to learn is by MASTERING THE BASICS FIRST i.e ,learning how to remove a shoe properly , how to dress a foot correctly , how to apply...
surely even a bar wedge will put pressure on the frog with the downward descending bodyweight ?
is it the shoeing or the rest curing the injury ? i would have suspected that when the horse was moving the joint would flex and open even if only...
what caused the abcess and the laminitis ?
by the time you have brought the toe back and fitted the shoe with the breakover as prescribed and plenty of lenght would a 1deg wedge make a...
i remove the nails one at a time with nail pullers with a horse i think might have issues , the first sign of discomfort removing the shoe would...
i reckon the steel is there , but personally i would have set the shoe a lot further back , its my personal preference to shoe square in the toe...
Karen as the good uns keep saying ,"its all in the trim " , the basics HAVE to be in place first , thats why i do not believe a lot of the fancy...
the vast majority feet are trimmed the to the same protocol , my preferred parameters are the "golden divide ratio " but i do use a " farmillo "...
i reckon its cheaper and easier to buy one chris
when will you post the results William ? your signiture , absolutely brilliant chris
Eric go to ; forgeandfarrier.co.uk . It is the best for all comps in the UK . contact the FRC , being a cjf they let you compete without any...
next weekend , its the shire horse competition at Peterborough , Builth Wells awful drive from home Chris
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