Posted on 02/06/2018 3:13:46 PM PST by rey
The American Veterinary Medicine Association is proposing removing the farrier exemption veterinary practice. It is unclear what this would mean but at worst, it would mean only a vet may shoe a horse, or a farrier may only do so under supervision or with a prescription from a vet. Clearly, this will add a cost to shoeing and may eliminate many shoers from the profession. It may require all farriers be certified. Given the predatory nature of some vets in my area, they will simply black ball certain shoers.
Does anyone know from where the AVMA draws its power? They certainly do not have any criminal enforcement. Who arrests you when you practice veterinary medicine without a license? How may this be stopped? If not, what are a shoer's options?
See link for specifics and link to AMVA site.
Yeah, it’s been so horrible for the last 250 years.
Most vets would be completely incapable of shoeing a horse.
How did horses survive without shoes? Seriously, I’ve wondered about this for a while...
Damn it Jim, I’m a blacksmith not a horse shoe-er.
In the early days they wore clogs.
If elves can make shoes, why can’t fairies make horseshoes?
Maybe most ‘wild’ horses lived on rough terrain, like Mountain Goats before we domesticated them. Those angular, rocky hillsides can wear a hoof down pretty fast if the horse has to search that area for food.
Most asinine proposal I’ve heard all day...must be a sjw demonrat thing....you’re right-99% of vets could not properly shoe a horse....
If elves can make shoes, why can’t fairies make horseshoes?
Cause they are too busy making slippers?
#lobstersinspace
Our state has a Board of Veterinary Medicine & I would imagine mosts states do. They handle licensing, disciplinary actions, etc. Each state has laws on governing Veterinary Medicine.
For example, here are links to two states:
https://fvma.org/resources/florida-board-of-veterinary-medicine/
http://www.dhp.virginia.gov/vet/vet_laws_regs.htm
As a former horse owner, you find out very quickly who is a ‘good’ farrier & who is not. The fly-by-nights don’t last long. The good ones usually have a reputable Farrier School certificate. Just like with doctors, some farriers are technically proficient while others are truly gifted in shoeing a horse such that the horse’s movement is the best it can be. Generally, vets/farriers will work together on difficult cases like foundering, where the farrier skills needed are above and beyond what a vet can do. Just my 2 cents.
I went to high school with a guy who became a farrier, and from what I heard he was very, very good at his trade, and was much in demand.
LOLOL!!
They dwrice thier power frfrom the fact that government always oversteps its bounds and that the right amount of money and lobbying can be used to get some government organ somewhere to change a code or rule that will put more money im someone else’s pocket that they wouks bot have earned orherwise
I have a good friend that’s been a Farrier for years.
He stays busy constantly. A Vet wouldn’t/couldn’t begin to follow him for a day.
Could shoeing be performed using bolt anchors much like dentists perform implants for artificial teeth? Then reshoeing would be a no-impact operation. Some bolts and Loctite, and there you go, the horse is ready and no hammering.
You mean before put them to work toting heavy wagons and letting fatties bow their backs.
Get all of your horse owning friends, clubs, farriers, etc to write to their state Vet Assns to block this. Also get them to contact this national agency.
” rocky hillsides can wear a hoof down pretty fast”
Won’t the hooves grow back? I presume, perhaps wrongly, they are equine versions of toenail...
To Protect the Hoof Wall
To Add Traction
To Provide Cushioning
To Protect the Hoof From Ammonia
To Alter the Gait
Corrective Shoeing
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