Some places (no Names)are not really interested in hoof care,Not to say they don`t use horses.they have lots.
What is the case is a lack of interest/money and education ..
How would you here go about getting horse keeper to take notice of what regular hoof care can mean for the animals in their life...??

Ie the market is rulled by price(lowest)and the lenght of time shoes stay on(again price)

Ray_Knightley wrote:

I just stop answering the phone....

Juhani Takanen wrote:
I just got that one!!!!

Juhani Takanen wrote:
Maybe that works and then again maybe not...

I went on a big organised "trail ride" this weekend ( if you can call 20 miles of blacktop roads with a police escort a trail ride) and had a guy give me a 20 minute speach about his 6 yr old mare that had never seen a farrier or a hoof rasp. Because, according to him " she has black hooves and if you never shoe a black hoof you'll never have to." According to him, when her hooves get a little long he just rides black top till they look better. I just said, I wonder how she'll look when she's 10 and rode off.

David

typical case scenario i have come across many times is
my friends uncles daughter has been with horses all her life and she says that the blacksmith is wrong because she went to colledge and learnt all about it .she is 16 you know

Ray K, wrote:
Ray I learned a long time ago, not to try and educate the world. :cool: These kind of individuals already have their minds made up and are usually found in the "boondocks". A term used for the backward and please don't face me forward, I don't want to see where I'm going, especially if it costs me money. They'll swear on a stack of bibles that it's not about money.

Unfortunately the horses bear the brunt of this kind of attitude and are found in a large part of the "bare footers only" bunch. The SPCA has to get involved at times, but I personally am more interested in the people I can help, that want help.
John

I live and run a business in a place like this. Trying to keep clients on a regular 6-8 week schedule is about like pulling teeth. Very hard to keep a steady flow of income dealing with people like this. Thru some trial and error and some good advice I have figured it out though.

You might suggest to them that regular hoofcare will extend the working life of that animal for years. And the cost of a sound, trained replacement animal years earlier than should be necessary will be a lot more than the cost of the regular farrier work. Tell them it is like doing regular oil changes for their truck, or having to replace the truck prematurely.

You can't teach a monkey algebra, so why bother.