>>>> Can you imagine a farrier willing to go into a pen of loose young horses and work on one at a time?
>>Yes, mine will quite happily. Mine will too, but I'd never ask him to work in an area that small, with that many horses. Even with the best horses, that's just an accident waiting to happen...if not to the humans, to the horses. I noticed they were lip-twitching some of the horses. That tells me that at least some of the horses weren't comfortable with the trimming. I most certainly wouldn't ask such obviously uncomfortable with trimming horses to stand so severely restrained, in a situation where a "boss horse" might ask them to move on. That's doubling the stress for the poor horses. I wasn't impressed at all. Karen Thomas, NC
