Zolas Hovar. Hovslageri och Smide

25/11/2023

Forget what I wrote in the last post, suddenly the sky exploded with colors over the whole Sweden, even furthest down south. Insane!! Happy I got to experience that. I’m brought up in the north of Sweden, I was used to having it happen several times a month sometimes. But living down south since I was 15, I forgot how freaking marvelous it is. Especially when the red colors comes out!! Basically it’s the Sun attacking us, but still super cool!

25/11/2023

Northern lights doesn’t usually come this south, but I was lucky enough to see it and watch it slowly dance across the sky. Moonlight shining up the snow, so you don’t need a flashlight when feeding the horses.

24/11/2023

OBS!!!
Nu när snön faller, och ni broddar på gamla slitna skor, tänk på att brodden är gjord för att passa en relativt ny sko. Drar ni ner brodden hela vägen på en sliten sko, riskerar ni tryckskador på era hästar. Det gör ont och orsakar oftast röda runda blödningar precis under brodden. Ett tips är att slipa ner brodden så den inte är så hög.

17/11/2023

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Vi samarbetar ofta med hovslagare när det kommer till olika hovrelaterade problem, här fina hästen Tritla som råkat ut en hovböld.

15/11/2023

Påminnelse 👇
När du gör en beställning på hästtransport från söder till norr, under vintersäsong, är det mycket viktigt att hästen har broddar alternativt är barfota. En häst som ska kliva av lastbilen med järnskor utan brodd riskerar att få allvarliga fläkskador!! Fast att gräset är grönt i Skåne är det ofta full vinter i norr.

14/11/2023

Viktig info till kunder. Jag planerar att ta min första 2 veckors semester på flera år, 7-21 januari. Det är iallafall målet och jag är i väldigt behov av vila efter en tuff höst. Jag ska göra mitt yttersta för att kunna planera skoningar runt det datumet o samtidigt behålla längden på den planerade semestern. Det är på den sidan av året de flesta hästarna kan gå nån extra vecka pga det ofta är kallt och hovarna inte växer särskilt mycket och skorna inte slits särskilt mycket pga många har brodd i skorna.

13/11/2023

Winter is coming, with all the colors of the rainbow 🤗⚒ a ribbed snow pad combined with a silicone pad and ShuFill A25. This is a combo if the weather is too wet for just only snowpads. Works both against mud and when the occasional snow arrives and disappears.

12/11/2023

Keep on fighting, never giving up the dream ❤️⚒

10/11/2023

My welding skills are definitely improving since I took a private course this summer. Hadn’t weld for a couple of weeks now, so I wasn’t sure if I remember it correctly. Got it rather right on the first try. As older followers remember, I was never taught how and why welding works, in farrier-school. They basically just gave us a arc-welder and said just do it. My mentor was a welder but not very pedagogical about that. I just welded like he did and it went rather ok. It was in my backbone how to do it, but I never knew why it worked most of the times. Then someone else…. A guy… saw when I was welding, and said I did it in the “wrong way”. And then I started to think about how to do it, and then my world just crashed. My mentor died and I had not really anyone to ask. And I actually didn’t know “how to weld”, only that it worked most of the times. A clients dad knocked on the forge, when I was taking a bit longer then normal. I thought he was just another guy telling me I was doin something wrong. Instead he very friendly showed me some small tricks and helped me finish the shoe. He had been a welding teacher, lucky me!! I directly ordered a full day welding course from him. And now, welding goes much faster and much easier. Arc-welding is not easy though 😂 buts that is what I have to work with at the moment. Icelandichorse with a huge abscess, got some extra support after weeks in a cast.