welcome bruce,
Its great to have you on board, shoeing is quiet costly this side of the pond with prices running to £80 [$160 ] per horse . It is illegal for anyone other than a qualified farrier in this country to shoe horses. The question i want to ask is in relation to size of nails used on draft horses in general. we use size 7 shoes and the farriers insist on driving size 8 nails, i have asked for size 12 nails to be driven but to no avail, there arguement being that should a shoe be pulled off with the bigger nails it would result in some of the hoof wall being damaged, i can see some logic in this but with some shoes coming off 2 or 3 days after shoeing it ends up being quiet costly.
regards, simon lenihan
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