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Matt The Farrier
Phone: +61 402 376 595
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25.01.2022 Handy Hints For Farrier Visit Have your horse caught and settled well before the Farriers arrival. Have a competant horse handler with the horse. Brush and wipe mud off horses legs. Please dont wash off as it makes it wet and muddy! Clean feet out. ... Remove dirty rugs. Apply fly repellent to your horse in Summer. Have a flat dry area for the Farrier to work on, preferably with shade in Summer and shelter from rain in Winter. Make sure your horse is well behaved. Please put your dogs away if they cant behave around horses! Dont brush your horse while we are under it working. Dont ride your horse and wash it just as we are meant to start work on it. Dont ride motor bikes, use leaf blowers, chainsaws etc when horses are getting feet done. Dont put a horses buddy back in the paddock when im attending his mate. See more
24.01.2022 Just letting everyone know, farriers can keep attending to your horses feet as per government notice. Any services connected to animal health, husbandry or welfare.
23.01.2022 Only two weeks old and curious enough to see what the go is with feet trimming.
23.01.2022 Something i hadnt seen before, a horse wearing the outside edge of both hind shoes. A farrier mate of mine said its wear from the horse getting up from lying down in a stable with a concrete floor.
22.01.2022 Even though this chunk of hoof has broken out down to the insensitive laminae, ive never known a horse to die of this.
19.01.2022 HOW TO TREAT A SUSPECTED ABSCESS Remove the horse from wet muddy area. Give the hoof a good clean with antibacterial solution. Soak the hoof in warm water with plenty of epsom salts. Poultice the hoof. Call an experience Farrier or Vet to attend as soon as you can.
19.01.2022 Righto, im off for Christmas and start back on the 2nd of Jan. Bookings are filling fast for January already. Have a great Christmas and a safe New Year everyone!
18.01.2022 I was asked the other day if this sole looked alright. The sole comes away usually mid February with the old frog. This is perfectly normal especially in shod horses as its replaced with a healthy sole. This also occurs in Spring.
18.01.2022 Just letting folks know as ive been asked, i do trim donkeys and goats and sheep.
18.01.2022 This is why im not a proponant of fitting a horseshoe wide theory. This horse was previously shod by another farrier and as you can see in the first picture, the shoe is way to big and over crowding the frog. No way can you clean either side of the frog, just no room for a hoofpick! As i started to trim this foot you can see in the second picture, they have also lowered the heels way too much to try and get the oversized shoe on causing bruising in the out side heel. The third pic ive fitted the correct size shoe, which still nicely covers the hoof and allows for easy cleaning without any restriction on frog expansion.
18.01.2022 I often get asked; Is there a correct way to nail a horseshoe nail into a shoe? Well, yes there is! In the first pic im showing you the two most common used horseshoe nails used. The left one is a BH nail or bullet head. The right one is a E type head. On each nail you can see a brand on the head that must always face inwards or towards the frog. In the second pic you can see the angled head and one way champfered point, which must always face outwards. This wa...y the nail will exit the hoof wall instead of inwards towards sensitive structures. The third pic you can see how the holes are punched into the shoe at an angle ( called pitch ). The angle changes as you travel around the hoof wall. So the farrier is always adjusting the pitch according to the angle of the hoof wall. In the fourth pic you can see how the BH nail sits more neatly into a standared, fullered, flat hack shoe. Where as the nail on the right ( E type ), would be better suited for a deeper fullered ( grooved ) shoe or a plain stamped shoe. See more
17.01.2022 A pre emptive wash with malasab before the Spring warmer weather comes on, to be infront of the 8ball, to stop skin issues before they arise! A diamond in the rough!
17.01.2022 A very pink hoof trimming stand i made for a client.
17.01.2022 WHAT CAUSES A HOOF ABSCESS A hoof abscess is caused by bacteria that gets trapped between the hoof wall or sole and the sensitive laminae. (Sensitive underlying tissue). The bacteria causes inflamtion and somtimes pus, which creates pressure behind the hoof wall or sole. This becomes extremely painful so the horse finds it hard to bear weight or walk.
16.01.2022 HOW OFTEN DOES A HORSE NEED ITS FEET TRIMMED? How often a horse needs its feet trimmed can depend on many factors. The average horses feet do not need trimming every two to four weeks. However, certain issues like; conformation issues in foals, laminitis, long toes, underslung heels, cracks, seedy toe etc can benefit from being trimmed more frequently. Say every two to four weeks. More refined trimming is usually done in these cases.... A horse that has plenty of free movement or is ridden barefoot generally has more healthier feet and needs trimming less often. During Winter and Summer most horse feet grow the slowest and during Spring they grow the quickest, with the increase of sugars in the fresh flush of grass. So in Winter and Summer some horses can go ten weeks or more and they may only need a light trim. During Spring they may have to come back to five weekly. Around September/October, as the mud starts to dry out, feet can chip around the hoof edge or the wall may lift or peel. So your horse may not be due for its regular trim but may need a clean up trim. Magesium chloride and other supplements may help strengthen the hoof. Although ive never seen a horse die from a chipped hoof, ever! If your farrier / trimmer, takes longer than say 20 minutes to do a regular trim, then they are taking too long! See more
16.01.2022 Why are there clips on shoes? Clips are there to help stabilise and prevent a shoe from shifting. Its said; a clip is equal to two good nails. Although it wont prevent a shoe from being pulled off. The first two pictures are of side clipped shoes. Used on a wide webbed, rolled edge shoe. The third pic is of a standared flat hack shoe with a toe clip.
15.01.2022 I think im saying something like, ladys and gentleman, this is how your horse should stand while being shod!
15.01.2022 In this first pic you can see bruising in the excess wall at the toe. This is hemoraging in the white line caused by Autumn flush of grass producing sugars. In the second enlarged pic you can actually see the lines of the lamina. Horses dont usually go lame with this bruising but its a warning sign sugars are getting dangerously high.
14.01.2022 Just reminding my customers that im on holidays from Good Friday right through to the end of April. I will not be returning any messages in that time.
14.01.2022 A nice little multi directional vice. Some of my new kit to offer a higher quality service.
12.01.2022 A massive congratulations to Kaitlin Labahn-Meyland on her Royal Melbourne Show success!
12.01.2022 If you cant set a shoe squarely on a foot or a horse is too difficult to shoe, please dont leave them shod like this! Third pic, a tip SCREWED onto a foot! Please dont use screws, imagine what they are doing to the hoof structure! These are three examples of some of the so called workmanship i come across in the areas i work in.
11.01.2022 Just letting clients know with current situation, i am still out there and available to do Farrier work until we are told differently. Please practice social distance and dissinfecting. I will be allowing more folks to pay via EFT if they are uncomfortable handling cash money. I dont have facilities for cards. Please if you are unwell in any way or have been in contact with someone please change your appointment. Stay safe and be well, and remember, we are all part of a community and need to look out for each other.
09.01.2022 Just to give clients plenty of advanced warning. I will be unavailable from Good Friday to the 30th of April.
08.01.2022 Hanging out with my mates, Heckle and Jeckle!
08.01.2022 Just letting all my customers know, i will be going into hospital in four weeks for surgery. Then i will be off for six weeks recovering, before slowly getting back to working full strength. I will be working right up to before i go in, so if you need any thing done please book in now.
07.01.2022 Just letting everyone know, the phone is running hot as Spring is just around the corner. So dont leave it till the last ninute to book feet appointments!!
07.01.2022 If you are finding your horse has become a bit sensitive with their footing, it may be attributed to the prolonged wet, muddy conditions this Winter. Higher sugar levels in the grass can also contribute to shortness of footing and pain as excess sugar will restrict the blood flow to the feet. The sugar in the grass start to rise after the shortest day of the year and is now starting to spike as we start Spring grass growth. This is also the start of the season in which feet s...uffer the most from weak wall structure, going from wet to drier weather. So the combination of wet Winter, higher sugary grass and Spring will all contribute to weak sensitive feet aswell as the increase of thrush and shedding of their old frogs. Remove your horse from boggy, muddy areas atleast while you feed them, give their feet a good scrub and apply an antibacterial spray or solution and allow to dry before putting back into paddock conditions. If your horse has dermatitis around the bulb area, treat and put in a drier environment like an arena until it heals or paddocks dry out. Remove all laminitis prone equines from all green grass if you havnt done so already and try to slim them off. For weak walled horses add supplements to their feed to help strengthen the walls and you can use something like iodine to apply to soles as it has a medicated drying effect. See more
06.01.2022 Matt The Farriers fencing hack. If you dont have wire joiners handy for electric fencing, cut a slot in a fully threaded bolt for appropriate wire size.
05.01.2022 First ride back after months of lockdown. Miss Bliss enjoying a hose off after ride. Hasnt been out the paddock for months, excellent and relaxed the whole ride,no ground work, no lungeing, you cant beat a Standy!
04.01.2022 Farriers Workers hands after a hard days horseshoeing.
03.01.2022 This first pic is of a horses hoofs i did the other day. It doesnt grow much foot underneath but grows a lot of thick wall out the front. This causes it to stumble as it cant get its front feet off the ground quickly enough, ( breakover ). The second pic, Ive reduced the toe back to a correct angle and put on a rolled toe shoe to shift the breakover point back. This also removes strain off the laminae, joints and tendons.
03.01.2022 Just letting all my customer and friends know, my surgery is booked for Tues next week. I will be off recovering for 6-8 weeks.
02.01.2022 JUST A WORD OF WARNING! Keep any eye on your laminitic ponies for Autumn laminitis. As the grass is trying to grow it is under stress and will be pumping out the sugar. Also, there is heaps of colic happening at the moment from feeding bacteria affected cheap hay or from horses gorging themselves and causing impaction of the gut.
02.01.2022 Just letting all my customers know im back on board from my op and am available for bookings for farriery work.
01.01.2022 Post surgery update. Two week checkup today. Catheter removed, will make it a bit easier to walk. Saw Surgeon for pathology results. All cancer was contained within prostate, no cancer detected within removed nodes, so all clear! Next check up in 4-6 weeks before i can do light work
01.01.2022 Five weeks since my surgery, gee time has flown by. My next check up is on the 22nd of January. I expect i can ease into doing some trims at that time.
01.01.2022 Not my best side but everyone wants to get into the act.
