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Anyone know how often a horse needs new shoes and what the heck they need shoes for in the first place? .. what's the purpose of them?
And if you're wondering why I'm asking it's cos I know a guy that can take a shoe and do this to it...
Personally I think he should sell them on ebay or something ...
People personalise their cars all the time .. why not their horse ..
And if you're wondering why I'm asking it's cos I know a guy that can take a shoe and do this to it...
Personally I think he should sell them on ebay or something ...
People personalise their cars all the time .. why not their horse ..
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Naah just knows how to make things pretty colours..
Every 6-8 weeks normally depending on the horse. Stops the feet wearing away if they do a lot of work on the roads or hard ground, otherwise they'd have very sore feet. Over £50 a set too, piss annoying when they get one off. :yeees:
So you're like shelling out like £325 a year on Horse Shoes?? :chin:
That's like way more then the tyres on my car ... lol and even though don't need change that often.
Why do you need new shoes anyway? What actually hapens to the shoe?? does the metal wear away? surely metal is harder the concrete / tarmac, etc?
Yes, they do wear away, and surprisingly fast, although bearing in mind my horse weighs half a tonne, I guess there's a lot of force being put on them. The foot grows anyway so they need taking off, the foot needs trimming and then a new set of shoes are put on. Still, if my boy went without them he'd get very sore feet, so it's worth the money.
Out of interest, why does he paint the shoes anyway? Please tell me they aren't to go back on horses feet :nervous:
Actually £325 was based on every eight weeks if it's every 6 then it's more like £430
It's a special process for coating stuff made out of metal - probabaly just found an old set to practise on .. BTW what do you do withthe old shoes? Do they get melted down and recycled?
Just how many miles is your horse covering each week / month / year?
The old ones just get buried usually by my blacksmith. If they ever dig up his land for housing they're going to have to move a few thousand shoes. I asked him about it once, and he said that whilst he used to build up a collection and then have the melted, the amount it cost to do it, the space and what he got back from it wasn't actually worth it. In an ideal world I guess they would be recycled, maybe if they're all dug up at some point it'll happen then.
Mileage wise, we probably average 30-40 a week on the roads, it varies a lot, such as I haven't ridden at all this last week, but then the week before I was doing 1-2hours a day on hard ground.
I think the horse would be more concerned about being laughed at by all it's other horse mates.
Surely it would depend on where the horse lives? I hear they are quite trendy in certain estates throughout the country.
Some horses need different types of shoes on if they have a problem with any of their hooves e.g mine drags her back foot so needs a more square ended shoes rather than a stereotypical rounded horseshoe. I need a new set for her every four weeks so at £47 a throw i spend about *quick maths* £564 on shoes. I do a lot of roadwork though which wears them down quite badly and also her hooves aren't in the best shape.
Then she's got a thoroughbred who limps walking on grass if she doesn't have shoes on. Pansy.
She gets them replaced depending on the wear, but it's not that often. 2-3 months or something?
Oh duh
Well it's not painted on - special process using electrcity to coat the metal should make it a lot tougher but the bottom would scratch off I'm sure but seeing how much people are spending on shoe's there could be a market.
You know it seems horse owners could save a lot of money on horse shoes if only they could teach their horses to rollerskate .. :chin:
A big part of the price of shoeing is paying the farrier's salary. That was about half the price I paid mine, even more when he was re-using shoes. And it's true that it's recommended that you change shoes every 6-8 weeks, but it depends on horses how quickly the hoof groves too big for the shoes. It's becoming more and more popular to not have the horses shod at all, though. However, it's not an option for everybody, especially those who don't ride inside an arena all the time.
And this reminds me I really ought to remove the spiked shoes my horse still has on his front hooves. Got to love bleeding money for my pony!
I know a lot of people who go horseriding, and knowing their personalities, think they'd be interested probably.
My girlfriend used to use nail varnish on her horses hoof. Then got knee-high-stripy-socks (tm
Really are some barmy people out there though
Children/teenagers do this. Unwritten rule is once it gets past about 15 hands then it's called a horse and you do not inflict pink/glittery shite/anything else tacky on them :no: It's rather like being 23 years old and being made to wear a pinafore dress by your mother or suchlike.
Maybe it's just our yard, each to their own i suppose, just know i couldn't ride into a showjumping comp with my horse wearing pink shoes
The only downside of your theory on selling the shoes is finding any self-respecting farrier to do the job of fitting them
Agreed. I wouldn't be seen dead with them, perfectly happy with the silver ones. Have to say, I reckon they'd be more likely to be seen in the ponyclub showjumping quarter, they seem to follow "fashion" a lot more as a whole (being stereotypical). I on the otherhand, show and therefore have to stick to various traditions, which thankfully doesn't include pink shoes.
Although I did once see a pair of patent baby pink long leather riding boots. :sour:
I thought a horse was under 14.3. My girlfriends 'pony' is 14.3 so technically counts as a horse. But they still jump her as a pony lol. Nowadays my girlfriend wouldn't bother because she just tends to hack her horse and not do anything 'exciting', but when she was a bit younger she used to do it tonnes, especially her younger sister.
Think techinally and in the showjumping/showing world it's 14.2, i'm shite with heights hence the reason i put 15 hands. In my mind they're big or small neddys end of
Were they encasing Jordan's fake tanned legs by any chance? Bleurgh, pink fuc*ing boots, who the hell would buy those. *shudder* so deeply wrong.
Once you heat the shoe up the coating will come away.
doesnt it turn the whole shoe pink, not just paint a coating on the outside?