Pinned post! I'm Rachel and I do hoof trimming and composite material horseshoeing in northern New Mexico. I'm also starting a mustang named Soleil! โ๏ธ๐ป
There really isn't anything like the jumpscare you get when you pick up a hoof on a lame horse and there is a huge fucking nailhead sticking out of it.
@acuppateagan@bluntequestrian Basically my exact thoughts. I've seen several people saying it's "dishonest" because "those horses were trained in bits originally" like.... just a lot of Cope because they can't do it and need to justify why it's therefore bad
I know if we want to do eventing we are eventually going to have to be able to do some of this in a snaffle for the dressage portion but, well, at least we don't have to use it for everything.
Our English tack set is really coming together! We tried our new hackamore today and LOVED it. We'd tried sidepulls & 4-5 different bits, but this wins. The shanks are brass and the bridle attachment allows for a slide signal before pressure. She felt like she does in the bosal.
Surgery is tomorrow.... nervous.. It's obviously less high risk than the last one, that was emergency surgery and this is just taking some hardware out, but like... i was pretty concussed for that one and couldn't be nervous. This one I am Preparing and Showing Up etc
I got a controversial opinion. I don't get the obsession with "good quality" hay. Like it should not be MOLDY, but I don't care if it looks like someone baled a meadow. I think horses are better off eating high fiber, multi-species hay rather than rich orchard grass/alfalfa!
So like at my last medical appointment where we talked about how the plates in my face are infected and they have to come out, the doctor was like, okay, and we will transfer you to another department to manage your antibiotics going forward.