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High Performance Hoof Care Australia

I am a passionate and experienced hoof care practitioner with both national and international qualifications. I work with predominantly barefoot horses.

Not your average farrier service
Equine podiatry for performance and soudness
Specialist in Endocrinopathic laminitis rehabilitation, offering a complete in house hoof care facility located in Goulburn, NSW. I also offer composite horse shoeing, both glue on and nail on. I have extensive experience in the management of laminitis, both chronic and acute and can provide owners with a compassiona

te and knowledge based approach to maintaining horses with hoof related pathologies. I provide a reliable and regular service to clients in southern NSW/ACT and South Western Sydney, from the South of Canberra through to Penrith.

20/03/2024

Good morning!
This is a post that I never thought I would be making. Progress has been painfully (literally) slow but I am now at a stage where I can return to work, albeit in a limited capacity. I have a pretty significant impairment in my right hand now that will be permanent and will continue to cause problems with hand functionality. I have adapted to the changes as best as I can and I can comfortably trim a well behaved horse. My elbow injury has had to take a back seat while I waited to see how much function I got back in my hand. At some stage this year I will go ahead with the Autogulous Tenocyte transplant that will hopefully relieve the constant pain that the tendon damage in my elbow is causing. Baby steps!
If you'd like for me to resume taking care of your horses' feet I'd love to hear from you. I am only going to be working two days a week at this stage, probably Tuesday or Wednesday and Friday.
Priority will be given to those of you who have horses that are cooperative around having their feet worked on. I plan on working at about 40/50% of my previous workload so unfortunately I won't be able to take back all my previous clients at this stage.
Please send me a message either by phone or on Facebook and let me know when your next farrier visit needs to be scheduled and I'll start booking people in. My return to work will commence in April.
A standard trim is now $77 inc GST .
I am soooooo looking forward to see you all :)

08/01/2024

Happy New Year everybody!
I thought I'd update you on how Im recovering. I have now had the hardware removed from my broken finger as I developed a potentially serious infection in the pins. Thankfully a day in hospital on an IV of ABs and a course to take at home seems to have done the trick.
I have now started physiotherapy in order to get some function back in my finger. It is going to be a long and slow process with a guarded prognosis unfortunately. The joint in my finger basically exploded and the chances of it ever working again properly are pretty slim. I hope by now you all have someone to take care of your horse's feet as I can't see me being able to contemplate any sort of return to work for quite some time. I still have my elbow in the back ground as well.
I am remaining hopeful for a return to work at some stage this year.
I'll keep updating you all as things progress :)

02/12/2023

I thought it was time for another update. Unfortunately, things have gone from bad to worse for me. Earlier this week I sustained a nasty fracture to one of my fingers. I had surgery yesterday and will now be in a cast until mid January. After that I will commence hand therapy. This is all adjacent to the tendon tear in my elbow.
2023 has not been my year.
I'll continue to keep you posted about return to work times for 2024

18/10/2023

Just a quick update on my arm injury. Unfortunately I am going to have to have surgery. There is a cyst in the elbow joint that is causing nerve pain and some small tears in the extensor tendon that may or may not need to be repaired. I will know more on Friday week when I meet with the surgeon (an old friend by now as he has already operated on me three times!)
When I will be able to work again is very up in the air. I will help with suggestions of other farriers and trimmers who may be able to help but unfortunately most good providers have closed books :(
Once I have more of an idea of what procedure I'll be having done and recovery time I'll update you all again....

15/10/2023

Hi guys.
Unfortunately I am out of action... Again 😬
Monday started out normally but by the end of the day I had a combination of excruciating pain in my elbow and a massive loss of grip strength in my right hand. Rather than improving during the week, it is getting significantly worse with pain now rivaling that of breaking my leg. I'm am largely incapacitated and even simple tasks requiring use of my right hand are nearly impossible.
I am going to take time off the tools for at least a week if not more while I get some diagnostics done and work out a plan to get me back to work.
I'll keep you all updated as I find out more myself....

29/06/2023

I'm slowly catching up on everyone's pedicures. Thank you everyone for being so understanding.
My car also recently decided it was time to shuffle off this mortal coil 🙄. I now have a newer vehicle and I got my old friend Stoick to test out the new bullbar for me. He approved 😍
I'll see you all over the next few weeks.

13/06/2023

Good morning all. I am yet again having to do a schedule reshuffle thanks to another bout of Covid. This one has really got into my lungs and working full days has been a struggle.
Expect to be at least one week behind with your booking. I'll be in touch with everyone as appointments draw near to organise a new day.
Hopefully you'll all get this majestic view of me again soon :)

06/06/2023

So nice to see my little mate, Mav, back out and about bringing people joy. He really is more dog than horse 😍
I've been taking care of Mav's feet for many years and hope to be for many more. I just adore him...

15/02/2023

I thought I should make a post to advise that my books are closed to new clients. I will consider veterinary referrals on a case by case basis but if you are in need of a regular trimming or farrier service I am afraid that I am at maximum capacity.
In order to continue to provide great service to my existing client base I need to cap my numbers. This is something I should have done years ago but I have always found saying no to be very difficult.
Thank you as always to my wonderful, reliable and loyal client base. You are very much appreciated :)

05/10/2022

It literally never rains, it pours.
My wonderful Sydney/Wollondilly clients; this week is going to be a literal washout. I am going to have to postpone for a fortnight to allow me a chance to catch up from both Covid and losing most of this week to bad weather.
Ill start contacting you all tomorrow to work out my next trip up there.
Cross your fingers for good health and fine weather 😫

28/09/2022

Hi All,
I have finally managed to catch Covid :(
I have decided that the easiest way to manage my schedule will be to push everybody's next appointment out by one week. This is providing that I am well enough to start work again once my isolation ends on the weekend.
There are some high priority horses that will be triaged to first in line but for maintenance and regular visits expect me to be a week behind this time around. I will touch base with everyone to confirm new days etc.

I appreciate your understanding and I'm looking forward to seeing you all soon :)

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