P J Martin Farriers

18/09/2024

Second day of the Mustad Hoofcare tour. Yesterday was a tour of the distribution centre in the Netherlands where all products for the European market pass through. A very impressive slick operation moving tonnes of nails and shoes around World.

Today was a guided tour of the horse shoe manufacturing plant in Friesland. The day started with a presentation by Mustad of their company, ethos and aims for the future. Followed by a guided tour of the manufacturing facility (sadly no photos!). It is a fantastic experience to see the process from the development on computer, through to the tooling and onto the shoes actually being made.

A huge thank you to Richard Ash Horseshoes for the invitation on this trip, if any farrier is offered this opportunity I would highly recommend it.

28/08/2024

This is a great illustration of why you shouldn't pull nails or any foreign object out of the foot until you have taken the horse to the vet to have it xrayed. If you pull it out, without a radiographic image, you won't know where the nail Penetrated. Getting radiographic images can help prevent your horse from long term or permanent lameness.

28/07/2024

Xc day at Paris 2024 Olympics!
There is a good buzz in the air today and blue sky!

25/07/2024

Moreaid at the Olympics!

26/01/2024

Simples!

15/12/2023

5* event horse with mild asymmetric front feet. Left fore P3 is slightly flat on X-ray, so fitted a The Shoeing Lab 01905-641640 pad with click in centre cut to provide caudal support of p3. Right fore is slightly more upright than the left, and as is quite common with these lands quite hard on the lateral quarter. This foot I fitted a Shoeing Lab unilateral lift pad, drilling some holes to allow the impression material to key into the pad. The shoe is Jimmy level, combined with the pad creating a more level foot fall and balanced loading of the limb.

12/12/2023

I am running a one day CPD event aimed at farriers, vets and equine physios on the 19th January ‘24. It will be a full day of information, discussion and demonstrations by Ian Gajczak Farrier.

The day will start at 8am with tea/coffee before lectures and discussion.
A hot lunch will be provided by the Unicorn Equestrian centre, before an afternoon of live horse assessment and demonstration by Ian Gajczak of some of the techniques he uses day to day.

As with the CPD event I organised earlier this year the profits will go to the Farriers Foundation, hopefully we can match the £900 raised in February.

To attend please follow the link

Ian Cajczak Dip.W.C.F explores the gap between ideal clinical practices and the real-world challenges of everyday shoeing

10/07/2023

Every horse owner and/or yard should have the right tools for removing a shoe in an emergency. Any of my clients who would like to know how to remove a shoe for emergency purposes just need to ask and I will show you.

06/06/2023

03/06/2023

5 days old and growing nicely! Sox (Sugar Brown Babe) is very bold and likes a good scratch! Dougie (Solon Glory) is not so sure about these hoomans wanting to say hello!