KLUND'S FARRIER SERVICE

14/03/2025

Offering full line of GLUE-ON shoes, as well as leverage-reduction urethane and wood CLOGS to treat lameness and enhance performance.

30/03/2023

Now carrying polymer horseshoes from Emerald Lake Horseshoe Co., Ltd.. My customers and (more importantly) their horses love them. They can be nailed or glued. Many of the benefits of barefoot with the protection and support of a shoe.

09/03/2021

29/11/2020

Most horses pass from one human to another - some horsemen and women are patient and forgiving, others are rigorous and demanding, others are cruel, others are ignorant.

Horses have to learn how to, at the minimum, walk, trot, canter, gallop, go on trails and maybe jump, to be treated by the vet, all with sense and good manners.

Talented Thoroughbreds must learn how to win races, and if they can't do that, they must learn how to negotiate courses and jump over strange obstacles without touching them, or do complicated dance
like movements or control cattle or accommodate severely handicapped children and adults in therapy work.

Many horses learn all of these things in the course of a single lifetime. Besides this, they learn to understand and fit into the successive social systems of other horses they meet along the way.

A horse's life is rather like twenty years in foster care, or in and out of prison, while at the same time changing schools over and over and discovering that not only do the other students already have their own social groups, but that what you learned at the old school hasn't much application at the new one.

We do not require as much of any other species, including humans.

That horses frequently excel, that they exceed the expectations of their owners and trainers in such circumstances, is as much a testament to their intelligence and adaptability as to their relationship skills or their natural generosity or their inborn nature.

That they sometimes manifest the same symptoms as abandoned orphans - distress, strange behaviors, anger, fear - is less surprising than that they usually don't.

No one expects a child, or even a dog to develop its intellectual capacities living in a box 23 hours a day and then doing controlled exercises the remaining one.

Mammal minds develop through social interaction and stimulation.

A horse that seems "stupid", "slow", "stubborn", etc. might just have not gotten the chance to learn!

Take care of your horses and treasure them.

Written by Jane Smiley

30/09/2019

Horse with navicular syndrome. Leverage reduction shoes and 3-degree wedge pad with frog engagement. Horse is often seen galloping in her pasture.

26/09/2019

Some trimming on a beautiful late summer day

16/09/2019

28/03/2019

25/03/2019

Brief article with important reminders for transitioning horses to spring pasture

16 Sep Transitioning Horses To Spring Pasture Posted at 15:31h in General by Karen It is tempting to turn horses out into spring pastures at the first sight of green grass, especially after such a long winter. However, spring grazing should be introduced slowly and delayed until grasses reach 6 to 8...

05/03/2019

24/02/2019

Some thoughts on price shopping when it comes to caring for your horse's feet

Clipping coupons, turning down the thermostat (and putting on an extra sweater), purchasing a used (fill in the blank – car, bicycle, saddle, etc.), buying item

12/02/2019

Thank you, Michelle Hoffman, for the awesome logo you designed for my business. You rock! I love it!