Was able to get my farrier to come out today. She removed a lot of toe and his feet look so much better! The popping in his ankles has completely stopped to! She will work over the next couple of visits to get his heel back to where it should be.
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I just can't believe she messed his feet up so bad in just a few trims!! The scary part is, when she came yesterday she had an "apprentice"!! So she is teaching someone else how to mess up horses feet!! I just emailed my farrier with pictures and asked if she would come out as soon as she can to...
Here's what his feet looked like when she took over as our farrier
Here's after 1 year, 5 months
I can't wait until she is off maternity leave and back doing his feet
My normal farrier is amazing and got his feet all fixed up and sound after I first got him. She brings foundered horses that were going to be put down back to soundness. The problem is she has been on maturnity leave for the last 6 months and the girl filling in is not so amazing. In just a...
I tried getting video of it but you really can't see the popping in the video.
Hopefully he will be doing better after his trim Saturday.
Thanks for all the help everyone!!
I was going to take some video and pictures to send my current farrier so she can see the mess she gets to come back to when she is off maturnity leave. I will post the video on here as well. He is getting a trim this Saturday (by the fill in farrier) so we will see how he is after that.
He is...
I've noticed sometimes that when my 3 year old gelding walks his rear ankles making a popping sound and you can see the joint popping in and out slightly. It never seemed to bother him and never lasted so I didn't worry too much about it.
Over the last week, i've noticed it is doing it again...
This was after we gave up and just took the fence down after he kept getting through it. You can see the half circles where he was pushing the fence in to get to the grass