Farrier today

I’ve had a difficult time finding a reliable farrier who shows up as planned, doesn’t have some crazy “contract” – I spoke with one gentleman who’s prices were steep in my opinion, but he’d been highly recommended so I was willing to pay double most others rates and then he informs me of his 4 week trim requirement and if you want your horse done further apart, you have to pay $10/week until he gets here!  Um yeah, even in summer on great grass my horses have NEVER had to be done more than 6 weeks apart – but he assures me when he comes for our first appointment that he’ll explain why it’s necessary to do it on a 4 week schedule.  I’m sorry – I just got an “off” vibe from the whole conversation. 

Oops off on a tangent there!  So between reliability issues, “contract” issues, distance issues and just in general getting a farrier to RESPOND to my contact tries has left me feeling VERY frustrated.

I was put in contact with a nice lady who I’m told does great work and her rates are very reasonable and we were able to make an appointment for today!  Tosh is having Skip vetted this am and then will be over so Skippy can be done too!! 

On another note, in discussing different fencing types with a friend I did some research and was a little surprised but what I found – I really want to do a blog about the info I found in case it could help anyone else!!  Not that that many people read this thing LOL!  I also need to do some comparison pics of Rowdy and Buddy – I’ve switched their feed and I just opened up the back pasture on Wednesday – want to do some “now” “later” photos.  Rowdy is also doing the Purina Feed Challenge – if he blooms the way Buddy did we’ll be in great shape!!!