Wednesday 1 May 2013

Daisy's shoes

One of Daisy's shoes fell of last week. The farrier reattached it but said there were some issues with the positioning of one of the nails (he didn't fit it - it was someone at her old home). It fell of again a couple of days ago, so he came back and replaced both her shoes (she only has them on the front feet - he is maybe going to shoe the back feet next week, we need to decide)
I have never seen a horse being shod before so it was interesting to see just how much he cut off (the dog ate all the offcuts - strange beast!). I always worry when picking their feet out that I will hurt them, but if this did not then a little tickling with a hoof pick could not possibly
Daisy isn't very obliging with her feet when we pick them and she isn't great with the farrier either. She has a certain amount of patience and then she wants her foot back and just puuuuulllls until he has to drop it - she is a tad stronger than him.
I didn't help the experience by taking a photo - despite bright daylight the stupid camera decided to flash which Daisy wasn't best pleased about and jumped back about 3 feet nearly squishing the farrier. But luckily he was very understanding once he had recovered from the surprise and I had apologised 8 million times.



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