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.
Interesting thread.
Thanks for posting, rey.
I bet they’d charge a whole lot more, too.
PUT DOWN THE BOTTLE AND TYPE WITH BOTH HANDS.
The same here in Alabama ,our Vet is very good at referring us to the farrier on correction shoeing and some lameness issues .
If it ain’t broke...don’t fix it.
I’ve never had an issue with our farrier overstepping his scope, and I’ve never had our veterinarian want to trim our critters hooves.
Seems like a very solid, workable plan.
Leave it alone.
I don’t think you have ever seen a horse getting trimmed & new shoes.
The farrier trims down the hoof because it grows-—much like your fingernails & toenails. YOU trim them, don’t you?
The outer wall of the hoof is usually pretty thick in a healthy horse. The horseshoe nails are driven into that outside wall-—not into any sensitive laminae which is behind the wall & closer to the interior of the hoof, sole, & frog.
The ‘hammering’ is onto the nail-—NOT onto the hoof.
Many ladies get ‘inserts’ onto their nails, like a pierced ear, and it doesn’t cause any pain. The correct farrier job does the same.
There already is a severe shortage of farriers in the USA. There are more horses in the USA now that before the tractors came along. IF these kinds of rules are implemented, horse owners will not be able to keep their horses healthy.
The horse industry in the USA is not a small business. Look up SOUTH POINT Center south of Las Vegas. It is a multi-million $$$$ facility which was built to accommodate horse events of all kinds. Why would anyone build such a facility if there was no use for it???
This kind of interference with horse owners is uncalled for.
Well, income spread is large among pet owners. That’s part of why there is pet insurance. I spent several grand keeping a cat on life number 9 for several years over a decade ago. But I was a computer professional and could afford that too. R.I.P. Punkin.
All large organizations seek to expand their power and control, always. There are no exceptions. It is human nature. Clearly the Vets Association here is over-reaching, and will keep doing so, simply because they have to. They know nothing else, and are incapable of anything else.
Next these scum will demand that every dog have their nails trimmed on a set schedule, and only by Veterinarians.
I watched a farrier shaving down horse hooves. He was surrounded by the farm dogs. He’d slice off a hunk of hoof and the dogs would fight over it.
It was inevitable once the authorities went after animal husbandry ...
Horse owner’s don’t fit into Agenda 21.
I know it’s the horny nail. That comprises a part of the hoof that has no nerves. More curious than anything else whether something like a Helicoil or particle board furniture anchor would work too. No hammering, only drilling, tapping, and screwing. And the shoes would stay on more securely. It wouldn’t need a vet either.
Amen to that. good post.
The item lined out serves to say that farriers will no longer be exempt from the rules that prohibit the use of prescription medications by unlicensed individuals unless they are obtained from a licensed DVM for the specific horse. Originally, it was assumed that a farrier would obtain and use the prescription drugs they needed from a DVM they regularly worked with. Unfortunately, some found other ways to acquire prescription drugs for use on their customers’ horses -— which has led to some very poor outcomes. The idea of the change is to prevent a farrier from practicing medicine without a license.
No -— the horse’e hoof is constantly growing out like fingernails.
True that - a good point I neglected to mention!!
Yes, they did, and several times it was in combination with further kicks at trying to shut down breeder and repro-tech activity, as I’d previously mentioned.
The repro-tech affected me most directly, because the idea was utterly LUDICROUS that a technician using an artificial vagina on a stallion was somehow ‘practicing veterinary medicine’.
But I know that some states have indeed shut down the animal massage and dental folks, and in a few cases forced them to try and get into vet college and get that DVM, just so they could continue doing what they’ve always done...
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