Just some of my everyday work. I applied the shoe, got distracted and forgot to take pictures. Very small footed 00, very upright hooves, horse has always been sound. Been doing him for years. He is under moderate to heavy use. Lesson horse and lots of trail rides, mountain gravel logging roads and beach rides.
So far we have 23 verified practicing, learning, or retired farriers. AS VERIFIED AS THEY CAN BE. This is the internet, I am just a farrier trying to manage a reddit page, somebody could easily slip by. I am still processing some verifications.
I am going to propose a loose rule, if you have the learning/student tag you should not be offering advice, you can ask questions in the comments to 'learn' but leave the advice to the practicing farriers with several years under their belts. Not sure how long the student/learning tag will last because essentially anyone could say the are learning to become a farrier. It is pretty hard to determine if that is true or not. But if we limit the tag to questions only, then maybe it will work. If you try to be cagey and are offering advice veiled in a question, you will be muted quickly.
I would like to reiterate, I myself am not a industry leader and I seek advice often. Even with my level of experience, I know I have more to learn. I came into this page's moderation position practically by accident and I am just trying to do my best to create a space for farriers by farriers. I am not trying to present myself as an industry leader, in fact I limit my own commenting for that very reason. So just bare with me, all of this is new to me, but I think we will git er done. Have a great weekend.
Hey everyone,
When this subreddit started out, it was meant as a space for farriers to talk about farrier things. Over time, it has morphed into a general farrier advice subreddit. I tried to prevent that shift from happening, but honestly, it has been like trying to hold back the tide. This subreddit went from a farrier space to something where horse owners come to complain about farriers and farrier work.
On top of that, and more importantly, real hard-earned farrier advice from actual hoof professionals, with decades of experience, is constantly getting buried by run-of-the-mill, amateur advice from people who are completely unverified, or who are "website-educated**".**
As of now
Getting Your Verification (And Your Farrier Tag): Passing the verification steps will hopefully prove you are a working professional and will automatically give you your official Farrier User Flair (the tag next to your username).
If you are a professional farrier and want to keep contributing to the discussions, please shoot a message to the modmail so we can get your verification sorted out. If you already have your Farrier Tags I will be manually approving you for commenting. If you cannot verify you are a working\retired farrier you will not be approved for commenting.
I apologize in advance to the people this is going to upset.
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