Should Your Horse Also Trust Your Farrier?
At one time, you might enter a trade only by reason of an apprenticeship. If you needed to become a farrier, you got yourself apprenticed to some famous farrier nearby. Only 1 or 2 or the well established farriers would condescend to taking on apprentices, and they would make their apprentices work like inexhaustible machines. Apprenticeships didn't give you the luxury of announcing bye bye in one or two months; when you were in, you were in for nothing but 3 yeas or much more. The delicacies required in the business of working with the feet of horses are mastered neither speedily nor simply. Being a good farrier takes a lot of application and talent, and demands that the farrier has intensive knowledge of the horse's body structure and most especially its feet structure, The farrier should be acquainted with the physics of equine movement, a horse's musculature and its skeletal system. A farrier must be a walking encyclopedia on all matters relating to the horse's feet. He or she needs to be able to diagnose a problem with any horse's foot in a in seconds and set about implementing a solution also in a few moments. The able farrier knows what can be healed and what cannot, and he will submit proposals to the horse owner about what to do to salvage the situation.
Unfortunately, not all farriers are encyclopedia-like, and there is truly no formal education or training course for farriers, at least in the US. The British system of farriers is rather more structured.
It's not straightforward to find the perfect farrier. There are farriers by the dozens and the hundreds, but not all of them have a high degree of expertise. A lot of them don't, as a fact.
The world of farriers is split up into two warring groups, which frequently snarl and growl at one another. One bunch of farriers thinks that shoes should be banned, and horses should be permitted to live and function in unshod feet. If god made them that way, who are we homo sapiens to go against god's will?
Simply because we put shoes on our feet doesn't mean we do so with horses also. We also forget that we buckle or lace or velcro our shoes tightly onto our feet, but we use nails to shod horses. I have heard many a horse shoe adversary ask a horse shoe advocate how he, the advocate, would like it if somebody nailed shoes onto his feet. And I've heard the pony shoe supporter retort by asking how the adversary would like to run around gravel and hard surfaces and melting asphalt with no shoes on.
My experience informs me that shoes are good for horses, but they impose on the pony owner the responsibility of taking very close care of his horse's feet.
Unfortunately, not all farriers are encyclopedia-like, and there is truly no formal education or training course for farriers, at least in the US. The British system of farriers is rather more structured.
It's not straightforward to find the perfect farrier. There are farriers by the dozens and the hundreds, but not all of them have a high degree of expertise. A lot of them don't, as a fact.
The world of farriers is split up into two warring groups, which frequently snarl and growl at one another. One bunch of farriers thinks that shoes should be banned, and horses should be permitted to live and function in unshod feet. If god made them that way, who are we homo sapiens to go against god's will?
Simply because we put shoes on our feet doesn't mean we do so with horses also. We also forget that we buckle or lace or velcro our shoes tightly onto our feet, but we use nails to shod horses. I have heard many a horse shoe adversary ask a horse shoe advocate how he, the advocate, would like it if somebody nailed shoes onto his feet. And I've heard the pony shoe supporter retort by asking how the adversary would like to run around gravel and hard surfaces and melting asphalt with no shoes on.
My experience informs me that shoes are good for horses, but they impose on the pony owner the responsibility of taking very close care of his horse's feet.
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