14/10/2026
WHEN VETS AND FARRIERS ARE BLAMED - BY THOSE WITHOUT REGULATED EXPERTISE
my response to this person was
are you an unqualified trimmer by any chance or have you someone who says their way is better than a vets or a farrier?
Not that you’ll listen but I’m afraid you’re being fooled
Aside from the owner obviously leaving these feet without veterinary/ farrier intervention (might be the cost of calling them out), the possible causes of these feet are
1) been left way too long befor this photo has been taken. The lesion is chronic and the feet aren’t even balanced
2) previous coronary band trauma such as abscess exit
3) chronic coronitis with hyper keratosis
4) chronic dystrophy
5) chronic dermatitis secondary to for example mite associated dermatitis
6) pemphigus foleacious or another IM disease
7) canker etc etc
Should I go on?
So the thing is Sharon, there are owners out there who leave these conditions untreated because life happens and you don’t know what they’re going through. They WILL to save face, say they have had a vet and or a farrier to save face because let’s face it, how many people would own up to the equestrian world that they’ve left this for what ever reason. Not many.
So next time you spread rubbish about our vets and farriers, think twice and stop enabling non regulated non educated people who learn from Google to spout the same.