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Raven Hollow Farrier Services LLC

Casey is a professional farrier and graduate of Mission Farrier School. She specializes in barefoot Casey graduate of Mission Farrier School.

She has a passion for horses and their well being and believes that you don't have a horse unless you have their hooves. She is kind and patient with even the most challenging of horses, and has the horsemanship skills to get even the most difficult horses shod. Casey has learned about all different types of therapeutic systems to help get your horse sound, but has the know how to keep a horse sound as well.

03/16/2026

Hey strangers!! Long time, no update! But I'm here to chat with you all about a little something-something on my mind.

MUD! MUD SEASON! RAIN! SWAMPS! WOO HOO SPRING!

Alright, time to get serious. A few key points to help me, you, and your horse out as we stroll into the smushy, New England Spring weather:

PLEASE have your horse inside early to let their legs and feet dry off!
- This isn't about me wanting to stay clean (though, come on, I really don't want your horses muddy legs wrapped around my jeans...)
- This is because that mud and swamp kills my tools. And my tools are... more $$ than I care to admit. (Rasps are about $40 each, my knives are close to $100, and honestly thats a *cheap* knife, my nippers over $270!!)
- This is because I simply can't do as quality a job with a wet foot as I can with a dry foot. Wet hooves slide on my hoof stand. Wet feet are more difficult to clearly evaluate the solar surface. Wet feet jam my rasp up when I top dress, making it look like a rat chewed your horse's feet.
You're paying me the same price for a wet, muddy horse as you do for a clean, dry horse, and getting only a fraction of the bang for your buck. Clean. Dry. Feet and legs please! It helps us ALL.

- If I haven't told you yet, here I am saying it now, PREVENTATIVE THRUSH TREATMENTS!!! Treat your horse with Thrushbuster, Durasole, Groom's Hand, >>I don't really care what brand thrush treatment you use as long as you use it

02/24/2026

Attn Clients:

I am incredibly behind. I am working to sort out scheduling, but expect things to be "messy" the next week or two regarding scheduling.

Between
- the extreme temps (seriously, we all know how brutal it has been)
- getting sick (the joys of kids in your house)
- vacation (while being sick)
- coming home to clear snow (still while being sick and caring for kids)
- deciding to cave and go to urgent care after 12 days of not feeling good (to find out you have a sinus infection 🤦‍♀️)
- followed by a fricken blizzard (we really ticked off mother nature)
And being a single human running my business:

I am trying.

If your horse is in dire need, please message me so I can sort out scheduling accordingly.

If your horse can wait, also message because ill probably cry tears of joy for your patience!

Stay tuned. Wish me luck 🤦‍♀️

12/13/2025

I get it. Orange isnt your color, Filou (aka Big Chocolate!)... you wanted pink... but still, very nice of you to help Alice VanBokkelen find your shoe 😆

Gentle reminder to my clients to please locate their lost shoes from field! While it does help ME out, getting those shoes from the fields is the safest thing we can do for our four legged friends ❤️

09/17/2025

It's been a hot bit since I have posted.

For those who don't know, i had massive wrist surgery, recovered, found out I was pregnant, grew a human inside me, gave birth to said human, used my body to keep that human alive, and here we are.

A year and a half after the last event, and i am finally feeling great.

So anyway, here's a beautiful saddlebred mare i get the honors to trim. She was so terrified of farriers when I met her- and I wish I knew why. I couldn't even wear my chaps around her when I first began trimming her.

Now?

Now we have an agreement, a conversation, and an understanding of expectations. I never hit her, but I certainly have corrected her by moving her feet. She had veterinary care. She had training....

Now....?

I can do her solo, and it is so peaceful.

Horses react for a reason. It sometimes takes a team to sort out the reason- but seldom, if ever, do horses react for no reason at all.

Listen to your horses. They're just trying to communicate❤️

09/13/2024

Your friendly reminder that I am still here, and I still see you, and I know if you've been sleeping, I know if you're awake, I know if you've treated thrush or not, so treat it for goodness sake!!!

I am so annoyed hearing, "I've been treating the thrush, but it's not improving!!" So let's ask: have you REALLY been treating it?

Sure. There are a lot of factors here. They include, but are not limited to, turnout/environment, bedding, diet, workload, the weather, maybe even the stars aligning right. But at the end if it all, it comes down to your time and efforts.

Let's keep in mind that thrush is an infection. Thrush can cause *lameness/pain*. Lameness/pain can cause *behavioral issues*. It's not just a "smelly" thing. It's much bigger than that.

Moving on!!!

I did not see the this horse when his thrush was so bad it was bleeding. However, the first two pictures were a few days after my client began treating the horse... you know, when she bought him, got him home and picked his feet, and they bled during routine hoof picking.

I shod the horse for the first time shortly after the July pictures were taken.

I gave her my suggestions as to how to treat this level of thrush. It was her time. **Daily** time. I should really ask my client how much time this consumed daily, and then over all: I'm sure it was several hours over a few weeks. It was materials (topicals, soaks, vet wrap, duct tape. Probably coffee... Maybe not enough coffee 🤔)

And if I had to guess: it was frustrating.

Anyway. Here we are. 2nd shoeing with me now, and I literally was using a TORCH to get through the hooves because they were so hard (this is why my knife work looks shady. I am fairly confident whittling a statue from concrete with my knife would have been easier than getting through his feet today!!)

Don't tell me "you've been treating the thrush" when you haven't taken my professional advice. And if, IF you have, and if, IF it's not improving: it's time to get the veterinarian involved. Yes. Get your veterinarian involved!!!! Antibiotics could very likely be needed if there is no improvement.

I want to go get a trophy for this client for her efforts... but I think the positive changes we have seen in her horse's behavior and hooves is probably enough of an accolade for her ♥️

09/27/2023

I want to wish my clients, friends, and colleagues a happy Deerfield Fair season! I hope those horses who will be showing and staying on the fair grounds are as happy and settled in as this big guy, Bolt, already is!!!

(And c'mon, I know Bolt is no stranger to my page, but how can I NOT share this adorable stuff with you all!? He's so happy in his fluffy stall and cozy blanket!!)

09/02/2023

Well, appearantly talking pony wordrobes is a big hit, and Alice once again pulled through- LITERALLY (ha ha, see what I did there?)

PULL ON BELLBOOTS. There is an easier way to get them on and off, and your horse can actually HELP you!!

Alice and Frog were kind enough to demonstrate and explain the how-to's of something many of us struggle with.
..and I am no stranger to the struggle myself, that is until Alice helped ME out!!!

09/01/2023

Let's play a game. Do your bell boots FIT!?

Most of the time I see ill-fitting bellboots. So what makes them fit versus being too small!?

A well fitting bellboot should......cover the back of the shoe completely..ideally touch the ground

A poorly fitting bellboot looks like Miss Piggy wearing a miniskirt 🤣 we don't want to see that!

Also, there's a nice picture of the magical double layer bellboot for those extra spunky, tricky ponies who really like to test how much effort it takes to remove a shoe.

I've been meaning to post this for way too long. One of my awesome friends/clients did a little fashion show on her horse, so huge thanks to Alice and Frog!!!!

06/23/2023

I'm back!!!!

Super happy to be back under horses. I'm not as strong as I was, and my stamina is far less. Both are growing daily!! Huge shout out to Karissa especially for helping carry me along for the past few months as well as my build up back at the grind.

It's been fun to squish, love on, and hoof‐hug my old friends again ❤️

Thank you to everyone for your support through this surgery and the past year of pain- onto a bigger, better and more badass year than ever before!!!

10/21/2022

Recently on social media I have seen an influx of what farriers' percieve to be "exceptional" shoeing going around.
...and then they argue that their way is the only way. And the previous farrier was wrong.

And I have a MASSIVE issue with that.

THE HORSE decides what is the right way by the way they move, their comfort, their soundness, their ability to perform their job!

Pictured below is a shoe job I did. And I think it's.... ugly. To say the least. I worked with multiple veterinarians on the case to come up with a solution for the horse's needs (poor fella had a soft tissue injury, and needed Shockwave therapy, which means the sole needed to be accessible readily... all while the owners needed to work on physical therapy.... there was a LOT going on). And turns out- it's WORKING. Confirmed today he is happily walking and trotting under saddle during his rehab!!!!

Anyway, my point being, please question the work you see on social media... especially if a farrier is posting work performed by ANOTHER farrier, and variables are completely unknown!!!!

The horse I posted in the photo is hands-down one of my favorites to work on... and even he had a bad day because he got spooked and I went FLYING into a muck-bucket, took down my tool cart, hurt for days, and my apprentice readily chased him down with a spare halter she located on a stall.

We ALL have bad days.

And we are entitled to them.

The best display of a farrier's abilities in shoeing a horse is the way the horse moves after they are shod.

Shoe FOR the horse. Not TO the horse.

/end PSA

10/02/2022

Sometimes horses just need someone that is going to speak their language.

I am so grateful that 8 years ago I had a teacher... a mentor... that educated me on this fact and I have periodically continued to work on it.

It is NOT a skill I want to practice daily in my career as it can be incredibly dangerous. I am SUPER picky on when I am willing to do this these days, too...

But in my heart of hearts, do I love watching a horse learn to accept hoof care as its routine? Do I love educating clients on how to do this?

Yes. So much. yes.
SO... SO... MUCH.... YES!!!!!!

(PC to Joyce Amidio... her new mare Sig. Joyce has been a client, friend, and family, for so long that she knew when to "hand the lines" over to me and let me do my thing, versus trying to help with her new rescue mare. So beyond me having a bit of 'fun' a huge shout out to Joyce for letting me educate Sig SAFELY on expectations!!!!!!)

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