Just took on a client whose pony has plenty of issues on her front end. The vet said she is going to need a 2 degree wedge on both fronts. I don’t have experience shoeing mini’s and don’t know what supplies would be best for them/where to buy the supplies. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
This has been an issue of mine for quite a while. Scheduling is, in my opinion, is the most stressful part in my career. Horses are easy, people are harder.
I work hard on keeping everyone on a 6 week schedule, I have a few I do on 4. I write out my dates, I verbally tell my clients the date + send a follow up text with their return date before the day is over, and message a confirmation of appointment a week before. I spend so much time in my book trying to make it work well for both the horses and I.
Even with the work I put into my book, I still have clients regularly cancel. I completely understand last minute things pop up and needing to cancel, but I have a handful that repeatedly reschedule. I can’t count on many of my clients, therefore making monthly budgeting incredibly hard. I’ve got multiple that only want to do Saturday’s or Sunday’s because that’s their day off. Farriers need off days as well, and I’m running in circles 7 days a week trying to get horses done on time.
It’s especially frustrating when clients get aggravated with me over scheduling issues when they agreed to the date I provided 6 weeks prior. I want the horses I do to be healthy, happy, and comfortable, and its hard to do that with clients who cancel the day before and then get frustrated when you can’t do them at 10pm on Sunday.
I feel as if there are many people out there that forget farriers have bills, personal appointments, lives to live, and bodies that need to recover. Keeping horses on a consistent schedule helps me provide the best care possible and keeps my business running smoothly.
I don’t know how to resolve this issue, and am hoping someone else who has experienced and resolved this issue could give me some advice.
I made a post on here earlier this morning about my girls beak health, and now I’ve noticed something new! I decided I wanted to do a really close inspection of her shell, and noticed these spots on various places. What could they be?
This is my 15 year old Sulcata Tortoise. I just adopted her recently after a family member couldn’t keep her anymore. I built her a large outdoor enclosure and have been making sure she gets all of her nutritional needs. One thing I’m worried about is the jagged edges of her beak. Is that normal for tortoises her age, or do I need to take her to a vet to have them check it out?
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She is in a large 40ft x 40ft pen with lots of grass and dandelions to graze on. I have a small shallow pond dug into the ground that she can crawl in and out of when she pleases. I have placed large hides in different areas of the pen that she can go into, two of them are shaded and two are in the sun so she can decide what temp she wants. I feed her a salad with mustard greens, collard greens, dandelions, and Mazuri Tortoise pellets with calcium powder on top 3x a week and manually soak her every other day to ensure she’s hydrated. If there’s anything I’m missing in her care routine, please tell me! This is my first tortoise and I want to make sure she has everything she could possibly want/need.