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Location: MD | obviously the question is in the subject, but how soon do you like it done? I would just like to hear what everyone has to say :) |
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Location: SE KS | When we shoe, reset every 6 weeks, although it's the same for trimming too!!! |
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Location: Kansas | 6 weeks |
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | Trimmed and reset every 6 weeks. |
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| Reset would imply you remove and re-use the same shoe. So for me, my horses never get reset. They get brand new shoes every 6 weeks in hotter weather and 4-5 in colder months when their feet really get to growing. |
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Location: Kentucky | I reset and trim 6-8 weeks, depending on the season. |
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 Off the Wall Wacky
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Location: Louisiana | FLITASTIC - 2015-09-14 9:06 AM Reset would imply you remove and re-use the same shoe. So for me, my horses never get reset. They get brand new shoes every 6 weeks in hotter weather and 4-5 in colder months when their feet really get to growing.
When mine has shoes, which he will again tomorrow, we will sometimes reset. It all depends on how often he's been ridden, how many runs he made, etc. 99% of te time he gets new front shoes because he likes to paw for grass when he's turned out. You'll see him out there pawing, then chowing down lol. But the hinds will get reset every now and then.
We pulled his shoes in January, at the recommendation of my farrier. He was still running good up to a couple months ago he's just backed off. He isn't clocking. And now isn't working correct. I'm crossing my fingers it's just a shoe issue. I also let someone else trim him, so we're going back to our old farrier. He did his feet for 5 years and I never had issues, I just moved further away.
But it to answer the OPs question... Typically every 6 weeks whether shod or trimmed. Sometimes it might be 5 and sometimes it might be 7 depending on weather and our schedule. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | New shoes every 5-6 weeks. |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | every 6 weeks and i trust my farriers judgement on whether to reset or put new ones on. What he has done works and he trims and shoes a balanced foot so I am good. |
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Location: WI | Every 6 weeks whether shoes or trim. Same no matter what the season. |
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Location: North Dakota | Red has issues, so his shoes are re-set every 5 weeks exactly. As long as the shoes are still in good condition, we just re-set them. When he needs it, he'll get a new set.
Winter is his time off, so I will pull the shoes for winter.
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 Own It and Move On
Location: The edge of no where | 6 weeks |
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Nut Case Expert
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | I do mine on as needed basis, not a set schedule. Every individual horse has a different growth rate and usually much quicker growth in the summer as opposed to winter. I want to always be certain that nail holes are grown down enough that new ones are not stacked right on top of old ones. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | SC Wrangler - 2015-09-14 10:35 AM I do mine on as needed basis, not a set schedule. Every individual horse has a different growth rate and usually much quicker growth in the summer as opposed to winter. I want to always be certain that nail holes are grown down enough that new ones are not stacked right on top of old ones.
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| My horses' feet grow quickly so I get them done every 5 weeks when they are working and every 6 weeks during winter / off season. |
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Location: Somewhere in the middle of nowhere | How do you all get your farriers to show up on a schedule? We have told ours to mark us down and then they never show, call, etc....sick of them. |
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Location: Smack in the middle of WA! | SC Wrangler - 2015-09-14 8:35 AM
I do mine on as needed basis, not a set schedule. Every individual horse has a different growth rate and usually much quicker growth in the summer as opposed to winter. I want to always be certain that nail holes are grown down enough that new ones are not stacked right on top of old ones.
Same here! |
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Expert
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| nmeastplains - 2015-09-14 10:01 AM
How do you all get your farriers to show up on a schedule? We have told ours to mark us down and then they never show, call, etc....sick of them.
Mine gives me a receipt when he is done with my appointment right on it. |
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The Advice Guru
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| NJJ - 2015-09-14 10:47 AM
SC Wrangler - 2015-09-14 10:35 AM I do mine on as needed basis, not a set schedule. Every individual horse has a different growth rate and usually much quicker growth in the summer as opposed to winter. I want to always be certain that nail holes are grown down enough that new ones are not stacked right on top of old ones.
^^^^ THIS
When I had my horses shod, I did differently then you.
I don't care where nail holes are, I look at the toe, and heel growth.
My good horse his fronts were shod every 4 weeks due to excessive toe growth, if we left him longer his heels would start to underslung.
His back feet we shod every 8 weeks, his back feet never grew.
Another horse of mine if we left him to 6 weeks, his heels would contract, so we shod him every 4 weeks as well.
Both horses never had problems with nail holes busting out, or loosing shoes.
Now that I am abstaining from shoeing they still get trimmed every 4 weeks, and I have never had better looking feet.
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Location: Sunnyland Florida |
I shoe every 5 weeks, to the day. Occasionally I get a horse that needs every 4 weeks, but otherwise, every 5 weeks. New shoes about every other shoeing.
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