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I have been using Jenny Lomas to trim my horses feet for
over 5 years. In typical horse fashion we started with one
pony (a Kaimanawa) for my daughter and now have four horses.
The Kaimanawa has been a real challenge behaviour wise and
we learned very fast that grass is not a horses best friend!
When we inherited a thoroughbred I fully appreciated the
joys of hard feet we had enjoyed with the pony. The
thoroughbred has no work and had had no attention for a few
years so Jenny has worked to bring the feet back to some
sort of manageable state with an ongoing battle with seedy
toe. This winter has been the best so far for hoof health
with me keeping all horses on very minimal grass and just
hay. Previous years I had been mixing all sorts of
concoctions of feed (boiling barley, wetting ezibeet etc).
I keep these four horses on a very small plot of land and by
splitting it into 5 and break feeding with a bale morning
and night at some stages their feet were excellent! Now we
just have to keep up the good work and with Jenny’s great
work it is always a lot easier. So we now have pony, tb,
lease hack which we are show jumping and hacking barefoot
and my plodder who happily hacks out over metal and farm
tracks barefoot. Thanks Jenny for many years of great
service.
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