Hot take: I keep seeing folks at shows skip the hoof testers on a horse that's just 'off' and go straight to corrective shoeing.

Last month at the county fair, I watched a farrier put a wedge pad on a mare without even a basic pressure check, and the owner called me two days later because the horse was still lame, which tells me we're sometimes treating the symptom before confirming the cause.

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paige9862d ago

Ugh, my old farrier always said a shoe is a tool, not a guess.

allen.reese2d ago

Wait, your farrier said that?