Equibalance Farrier Services

07/31/2026

Hoofcare providers!! This is your reminder to make sure you are up to date with your tetanus!! Mine was out of date it’s so easy for these things to lapse!

Be safe out there!

07/26/2026

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07/21/2026

This is amazing!

07/19/2026

07/17/2026

Thank you Kahn Forge, Inc. for yet another amazing style of shoes! These Core’s are amazing! I love the clip shape size and position, the metal is really nice to shape and this is going to be an extremely versatile shoe. The heel support on the core line is everything I have been wanting! Steel to work with, length to be had, expansion to play with. The pre boxing is so nice I didn’t even feel the need to touch it up. Nick Denson thanks for making me into a Kahn Gal! 😉

07/13/2026

Fly stomping season

Dry ground season

Lack of rain season

Hot weather season

It’s all here upon us in the North East. So many questions run across our brains when we trim feet like this on a routine 6 week cycle. Do we remove it all? How heavy do we roll the walls? How much should we back up the toe? Should we leave a little heel or wall or pull it back under? What if it rains and the soles soften up and exfoliate within the next week, will they be sore if we get after all the chips cracks and delamination from the stomping on rock hard ground?!

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Things I look at as I look at what the details are showing me. Is there concavity? Is there bruising at the white line or on the sole towards the toe? Are they sound and comfortable on the hard ground??

These are all questions I ask myself which then the answers dictate how I am going to proceed with the trim.

Have I misjudged some feet this summer? You bet I have. Fresh wet feet full of exfoliating material right after the last big rain, then the ground goes hard and dry so fast and we get a huge fly hatch… boom.. lame…. Or the opposite, tons of wall chipping and splitting, remove what is hanging on by threads (or tubules) a day if fly stomping on a fresh trim… boom…lame.

Understand we are making our best educated guess and it’s literally splitting hairs on the decisions we make which sometimes breaks their soundless for a short time.

So what can you do when the environment is less than forgiving? Fly wraps, fans, sprays, night turnout, feed thru fly control, fly predators, hoof armor, boots, and watch that grass.. “but it’s so short!!” That’s stress grass which can be higher NSC and if we have some “low grade, sub clinical” laminitis (bruising at the white line or very mild separation of the white line is a big sign) that isn’t presenting with lameness you add grass and a fresh trim and it tips the scales.

We are trying our best out there in the heat fighting the flies trying not to pass out on you because we are sweating faster than we can replace our salts. Please have fly spray on the ready. I can’t stress this enough!! “It doesn’t work” it helps.. even using fly bait like “fly strike” to knock down the stable flies before we get there kills within 5 minutes sweep it up and reduce the load in the area by 90%, anything helps

The feet in these photos belong to a lovely walker who I have been trimming since about 2018 and he is never sore after a trim, he is aged and I feel like I know his feet well enough to really add a big roll to help control the fly stomping damage. **trim wasn’t finished in the photo***

Thanks to my daughter who took some nice photos of me trimming today!

07/09/2026

07/07/2026

For those of you who enjoy picking up a rasp and doing a little hoof maintenance on your own:

Mastering the Maintenance Trim is designed to introduce owners to the basic knowledge they will need to confidently begin trimming their own horse’s hooves.

07/06/2026

Please show your farrier appreciation as it’s national farriers week!!

Thank you to the 3 lovely ladies who shared their appreciation for me, hit me right in the feels!!

In honor of the 28th annual Farriers Week celebration (July 5-11, 2026), we collected these tributes from members of the equine community to recognize all of the hard work and dedication farriers put forth to keep horses sound.