The sadness of Hackney horse Williams farrier trauma

Compare with my video's from may 5th 2008.
This morning, for the first time in years a trustworthy farrier tried to shoe William, as it is very much desireble to have him shod at his front feet.
After many hours of training, I had a little hope he could succeed , but it turned out to be completely different.
Williams trauma from the past, caused by (no doubt) extreme farrier abuse is still there, in all its very sad aspects.
Without almost full anaesthesia, shoeing William might never be possible.
Although I have done all the trimming myself from the beginning without any real problems, shoeing at the front is really desirable because of fisures in the hoof.

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• hackney
• horse
• william
• horses
• training
• driving
• trauma
• traumatised
• extreme
• jumping
• unrest
• ptsd
• fear
• anxiety
• unhappy
• fearful
• sad
• stress

[burrejo]

Not the horses fault...the owners.

[hackneysaregreat]

@burrejo

You are right, no doubt, the previous owners allowed William to be extremely abused by farriers

[TheSJNano]

When I first watched this, and watching him paw out at the farrier I would of almost agreed with DrumRunnin. But then I went and watched other videos of him. He's so sensitive in his natures and in another video of him standing for the farrier it was clear that he was terrified. At this realisation I felt awful about my first judgement. So from a horse owner of 15 years, thank you for broadening my mind to take a second look from time to time! We are never to old to learn. x.

[hackneysaregreat]

@TheSJNano

Don't feel awful, I am still learning too.

The thing is, that when you try judging what you see here without knowing its earlier context, you could easily end up misjudging the situation.

Seeing this as "misjudged agression" and beating up this horse in the past to "make him stand" is probably the cause of his trauma. And also probably the reason why former owners sold him.

[44Teal44]

Poor horse :(

Leave him there for a few more hours and it'll wear down :P

...I am kidding btw.

Yeah poor William :( Hopefully it'll get better :/

[HorseyFriends]

All I can tell is he's not very happy, AND he sure can use a trimming. But I'm sure as the AWESOME owner you are you were perfectly aware of that :)

[gcpropertymanagement]

I am so sorry to see any equine feel so frightened. This comes from the past, of course. Whenever you see so much fear, you always wonder how many years this horse or pony has felt so afraid and had to perform anyway. I am so glad that a decent person has finally given him a home. He is very lucky.

[cowgirlsdontcrydick]

@NebetSeta Why in the hell would you use anesthetize the horse needs to learn to stand! and they wount learn it if your druging the horse.. win i shoe my horse i use a soft rope and train them to stand and that way if they were to get the foot stuck some how in a fence there not going to breack there leg..

[BeezieMadden13]

@KCC62BRx he wasn't acting like that because he was tied, it was because of the farrier. We have horses that act jumpy when they are tied, but they have never kicked out or bucked, etc. The worst they do is paw. It is a natural instinct becasue in the wild what would happen if a predator comes up while the horse is restrained?

[jonnythunderwalker]

oh gawds im thinking of going to the dentist when i see this vid...

[TRbreyerhorsecrazy]

poor horse.:(

[IronFreePony]

@PaintedPicasso The long toe and underslung heel are definitely fixable by a competent trimmer. Sadly, that is often the result of farrier trims.

Boots are certainly the way to go while the horses' feet are healing from shoeing trauma. They protect the hoof, but still allow the flexibility required to help support the heart.

Shoes inhibit bloodflow through the hoof, putting strain on the heart and metabolism.

Also, chipping is nature's way of trimming the hoof. This is okay! Shoes are not.

[PaintedPicasso]

@IronFreePony his front feet have way too long a toe while his heel is quite low- he might not need shoes, but he definitely needs some work done. the amount of pavement he will be on while pulling the cart will just chip his feet. unless he wants to get easy boots, or the horse has amazingly strong feet, shoes are the way to go

[PaintedPicasso]

@IronFreePony my gelding has 4 white feet. he is out 14 hrs a day, is nevery in a wet stall, and has average feet. he requires 2 reg steel shoes on the front while he goes barefeet behind, even when he's not being worked hard. there is not one shoeing fix for all the horses in the world- if there was, ppl would do it themselves