Common Sense Shoeing w/ Consideration for the Wet Environment by Mark J. Plumlee CJF, RJF, CBT, CFP, CLS, FE

This video series was developed to give viewers a common sense approach to shoeing horses in all types of environments, but with emphasis on the moist environment, when ever and where ever too much moisture challenges the integrity to the over-all health of the foot.

At Mission Farrier School, we teach horseshoeing in the Pacific Northwest; however moist environments can be found in many places; Hawaii, California, Florida, Kentucky: any place where there are irrigated pastures. The equine foot was designed to be as hard or harder than the environment in which the horse lives and is expected to work. A flexible foot is not a good foot. It is a foot already at risk.

Living and working as we do in a moist environment, we see a lot of flexible feet, and most of them are in trouble to some degree. If you are a beginning farrier, and if you can learn to shoe horses with some common sense, you will be able to go anywhere and successfully meet the needs of a horse. If you already have an established farrier business, we hope this video will help you evaluate, trim and shoe horses to meet their needs, given the environment in which they live. Thanks for watching.

Highlights include: conformation & environmental considerations, addressing a long-toe & low-heel condition, plus a bonus feature on basic forging skills & techniques.

Credits:
Produced, Directed & Edited by: JEGO Consulting, LLC formerly Wild Horse Publishing