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Sep. 3rd, 2011 07:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickBitching about shoeing. We need shoes for the competitive ride. At least, some of us need shoes.
Waylon, who does not condition and who is not very interested in competing, has shoes on all four of his pony's feet.
Alannah, one of my first year kids, has shoes on her horse's front feet (but nothing on back feet).
Cass has no shoes on her horse
Jaycee (or Jaice or whatever) has no shoes on her horse
Trysta has no shoes on her horse
Lala has no shoes on her horse
Olivia has no shoes on her horse
I have no shoes on my horse
So, by my count, we have 26 horse feet that need SOME kind of foot solution before the competitive ride.
I own six easyboots, four in 00, two in 0. I have borrowed a pair of 1's from Tasha, for a total of 8 easyboots. The 1's more-or-less fit Whimsy's front feet. The 0's might fit her back feet but are missing some screws that I have to order. The modified 00 boots (which fit Nick's front feet perfectly) stay on Ceres' front feet reasonably well. I am sort of resistant to loaning my easyboots to Ceres when I have them perfectly adjusted to fit Nick (to whom they belong) but it is what it is. I was given to understand that if we removed Ceres from the shoeing equation, the other, more-shoeable horses would get done in a timely and efficient manner. That has not yet come to pass and timely has slipped away.
Assuming that we use all the easyboots, we have 18 horse feet that need to have something done with them before the competitive ride. Now, I am NOT going to buy 18 feet worth of easyboots because Theron won't get off his ass and shoe the rest of the horses. Each easyboot costs $52.00 plus shipping (for basic, non-epic easyboots). Eighteen feet worth of easyboots is more easyboots than I have money to devote to the project. Also, I do not personally NEED any more easyboots as I have plenty to fit my own horse. She only has four feet, after all, and easyboots do not wear out particularly quickly.
Last year, we got shoes on approximately two weeks before the competitive ride. McAllister (the ride vet) said that the reason we got marked down for windpuffs was that we put the shoes on very late in the game. Promises were made to put the shoes on earlier, for certain. Definitely, for real, earlier next year with the shoeing.
I don't know why I ever believe these people. It's like Charlie Brown with the football. Things NEVER get done early. It's always the eleventh hour and random last-minute fucking around. "It'll be all right." Yeah, my ass. Just because it IS always ALL RIGHT does not mean that the way you're doing it is OK or the proper way. Shit should NOT be done at the eleventh hour. You should NOT take an improperly conditioned horse to the competitive ride. You should not wait until September to start riding (as in "breaking to saddle") your competitive trail horse for that year. And you should get your horse shod about four weeks before the ride, at a minimum. Actually, one shoeing and a reset would be ideal, for a total of ten or twelve weeks before the ride.
This sort of bullshit trains another generation that it doesn't matter to do things properly and in a timely and responsible fashion. Damn it, it DOES matter. It does.
Waylon, who does not condition and who is not very interested in competing, has shoes on all four of his pony's feet.
Alannah, one of my first year kids, has shoes on her horse's front feet (but nothing on back feet).
Cass has no shoes on her horse
Jaycee (or Jaice or whatever) has no shoes on her horse
Trysta has no shoes on her horse
Lala has no shoes on her horse
Olivia has no shoes on her horse
I have no shoes on my horse
So, by my count, we have 26 horse feet that need SOME kind of foot solution before the competitive ride.
I own six easyboots, four in 00, two in 0. I have borrowed a pair of 1's from Tasha, for a total of 8 easyboots. The 1's more-or-less fit Whimsy's front feet. The 0's might fit her back feet but are missing some screws that I have to order. The modified 00 boots (which fit Nick's front feet perfectly) stay on Ceres' front feet reasonably well. I am sort of resistant to loaning my easyboots to Ceres when I have them perfectly adjusted to fit Nick (to whom they belong) but it is what it is. I was given to understand that if we removed Ceres from the shoeing equation, the other, more-shoeable horses would get done in a timely and efficient manner. That has not yet come to pass and timely has slipped away.
Assuming that we use all the easyboots, we have 18 horse feet that need to have something done with them before the competitive ride. Now, I am NOT going to buy 18 feet worth of easyboots because Theron won't get off his ass and shoe the rest of the horses. Each easyboot costs $52.00 plus shipping (for basic, non-epic easyboots). Eighteen feet worth of easyboots is more easyboots than I have money to devote to the project. Also, I do not personally NEED any more easyboots as I have plenty to fit my own horse. She only has four feet, after all, and easyboots do not wear out particularly quickly.
Last year, we got shoes on approximately two weeks before the competitive ride. McAllister (the ride vet) said that the reason we got marked down for windpuffs was that we put the shoes on very late in the game. Promises were made to put the shoes on earlier, for certain. Definitely, for real, earlier next year with the shoeing.
I don't know why I ever believe these people. It's like Charlie Brown with the football. Things NEVER get done early. It's always the eleventh hour and random last-minute fucking around. "It'll be all right." Yeah, my ass. Just because it IS always ALL RIGHT does not mean that the way you're doing it is OK or the proper way. Shit should NOT be done at the eleventh hour. You should NOT take an improperly conditioned horse to the competitive ride. You should not wait until September to start riding (as in "breaking to saddle") your competitive trail horse for that year. And you should get your horse shod about four weeks before the ride, at a minimum. Actually, one shoeing and a reset would be ideal, for a total of ten or twelve weeks before the ride.
This sort of bullshit trains another generation that it doesn't matter to do things properly and in a timely and responsible fashion. Damn it, it DOES matter. It does.
