Accepting select new customers- Haywood & Buncombe Counties
We have an unusually high success rate with chronic
and acute laminitis or founder cases.
With those cases we've studied and employ Gene Ovineck's
Natural Balance therapeutic system,
and readily use Natural Balance products
on sound horses, upon request.
An experienced, professional, and reliable farrier
accepting new clientele. We have relocated from
White House, TN to Clyde, NC. An accident in May
'06 broke my L leg. I placed and excellent group of
long time customers with other farriers, without a
lapse in their regular, scheduled service that I provide
and manage, when requested. Manage, means I'll
schedule them six weeks in advance. I'll call you with
the amount of notice that you'd like, to remind you of
their due date and let you know when to have them up.
This system keeps your horses "minute man" ready.
Service of that caliber, my constant study, and the skill
of my hands make Redditt Farrier Service the choice for
those in the market for a farrier.
I could possibly work some during the Fall of '07,
I believe it would be most wise to wait until the Spring '08.
Zach Knowles of Springfield,TN
Rocking Z Quarter Horses
I've shod only one world
champion, and here he is,
owned and ridden by
Zach Knowles of Springfield, TN. He also
finished in the top 20 at The National High School
Finals Rodeo, following his TN H.S.
Rodeo championship. All this in
addition to being ranked in the NCHA.
2008 Update! Zach is #2 in the NCHA Youth World Champion Race
"Shoe for Soundness" Dr. Doug Butler That was my mind set before I read it published by Dr. Butler. I'd have added "lifetime " between for and soundness. Professional hoof capsule management should result in a picturesque hoof,given the horses' enviromental
circumstances. Each shoeing is a prescription, it is tailored to the one horse, his environment and use. A hoof capsule, specifically the shape of the hoof, affects each joint and muscle well into the torso. A distorted hoof can cause permanent damage to any of the bony structures above it, over time.
Maintaining a hoof that will allow a horse to be useful for 90 some%, of his life span, demands care by a farrier with the health of the horse at top of his list. That goal is accomplished by professional farriery. That is shoeing, if necessary, that doesn't interfere with the natural function of the hoof. Shoeing must allow expansion and contraction, while controlling wear. When the above goals are met, uninhibited flexion and extension should occur in all the joints above.
The shape of the hoof capsule is first influenced by coffin bone shape, then by skeletal conformation, metabolism with infirmities factored in, and body weight. Next are external factors, i.e., regular & timely hoof care, ground surface in pasture or paddock, and usage. These examples are not all inclusive, but I believe they are in order of importance.
There are at least six aspects of balance for each foot. Dr. Doug Butler labels them X, Y, Z, and the X, Y, & Z effects on dynamic or functional balance.
X balance is often referred to as medial / lateral. Y balance is looking at the hoof from above or below. Is the growing hoof, wearing as it should, symmetrically? Finally Z balance is also referred to anterior / posterior, or heel and toe balance. Most persons don’t think past heel height, and strain on the flexor tendons. Those overlooked are the extensor tendons on the front of each leg. Any effect on a flexor or extensor tendon, conversely affects the other.
The horseshoe icon above is, call it borrowed from, The Poet, author, educator, and editor, Danvers’ Child.
Cutters aren't my exclusive customer group. Experience with:
- dressage
- draft horses- occasionally
- Walking/saddle horses-keg, and plantation shoes. I have abandoned the study on padded shoeing.
- Icelandics
- Paso Finos
- team ropers
- calf ropers
- barrel horses
- mules-gaited and trotting
- hunters
- western pleasure- Congress level
- Laminitic horses (Precursor to founder)
- Natural Balance Farrier, primarily in theraputic cases. I have consistently restored soundness from 12 degree +
rotationor upward displacement of the hoof capsule. (There has been a change in terminology, not the disease.) I am experienced in the treatment of acute laminitis. That treatment is preventing long-term damage by stopping capsular rotation, including sinking of the entire bony column, after initial damage to the sensitive laminae holding the bony column to the inside of the hoof wall.
- I'm experienced and comfortable capturing and usng radiographs for precision application of the Natural Balance protocol for chronically as well as acute laminitic horses.
“There is nothing in the world that some man can not make a little worse and sell a little cheaper. And he who considers price only, is this man's lawful prey."
John Ruskin 1819-1900
