Lost In The Fog--Story

[kentuckyrosesinmay]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

Some horses don't like men for one reason or another. He may have been manhandled as a youngster (a lot of young horses are, unfortunately.) My horse didn't like men... his previous farrier had beaten the **** out of him with a 2 x 4 because he wouldn't hold still. Turns out he had quicked his hoof with a nail and it hurt him. It took 6 months for MY farrier to be able to put shoes on his rear hooves.

Yeah, I've had quite a few horses that haven't liked men for whatever reason. I hate dealing with most farriers. I have switched farriers so many times in the last few years that it is getting really old. Most of them are idiots that don't know what in the hell they are doing. One farrier got mean with an abused horse at the barn one day after I had repeatedly told him not to get rough with that particular horse. She couldn't take it. Then I had another one put quarter clips on a horse that I said could not have quarter clips on him in case he threw a shoe because he was such a strong good moving horse that every once in a while he would step on the heel of the shoe and it would just pull straight off. Well, guess what, he pulled the shoe, and it didn't come straight off. The quarter clip went up into his damn sole. He was lame for three weeks.