Not Your Farriers Job
- Megan McKnight
- Apr 14, 2023
- 1 min read
A well-trained horse is easy to work around and a sign of truly good horsemanship. You can have the supposingly most expensive, well-trained horse in the world, but nothing rats out how well-mannered a horse is than how he acts when his feet are handled. People say, ‘Megan, I don’t have to handle my horse’s feet, that’s why I hire a farrier - it’s their job.’ That is the biggest line of bullshit in the horse industry. It is absolutely not your farrier’s job to get thrown around, kicked, struck at, bitten, nails jerked into their hands and legs, and put their life on the line for a horse with no respect, because the owner has no respect for the invaluable service a farrier offers. A farrier’s job is specializing in trimming and shoeing your horse. That’s it. If more horse owners had to get under their horses, or even better, had to pay their farrier extra for their horse’s behavior, you can bet for damn sure they’d start giving a shit real quick about how they were going to fix that horse or find someone that could.
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