04/09/2022
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This isn’t my picture, but it’s an important one. This shows the margin for error when shoeing a horse! Not a lot really!
If you do the maths on a set of shoes using 5 nails a shoe on a 5 week cycle, (roughly 10 shoeings a year), that’s 20 nails a shoeing so over the course of the years that 200 nails per year on one horse. If you work that on 5 horses a day on 48 weeks of the year that 24000 nails! That’s a lot of time to get it right and yet farriers do over and over again. Some times however it goes wrong (we don’t have x-ray vision!)
The best way to stop your farrier from stabbing or binding your horse to to make sure that they (the horse) are well trained and stand still for the shoeing period. If they have bad shelly feet and your farrier advises glue on shoes, casts etc then their not ‘trying to rob you blind’, their trying to help your horse. If they ask for sedation then they are trying to help your horse (and also trying to stay alive in the process!)
To my knowledge I haven’t lost any work recently but this is just an in-site into how easy it is for things to go wrong when you are dealing with a live animal that can’t talk! Know one starts the day wanting to lame a horse, but sadly sometimes it can happen.
