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| dorisday |
Calling trimmers in DorsetOur beautiful Blas is now on loan in Wimborne, Dorset - out of all my 4 he had the best barefoots of all. Is there a trimmer nearby that I could recommend to his new family? |
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| babyjay |
So no trimmers in Dorsat? Oh 
I'm kinda near Wimborne (1hr) BUT am not a trimmer! Did you find someone in the end? |
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| dorisday |
No - not a soul. How do you manage? | ||
| babyjay |
Ermm DIY, with occasional help from my barefoot friendly farrier 
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| Chris Thompson |
Well I am not qualified but I trim my own horse, plus one or two friends horses, I always say I do it on a good samaritan basis. I am also threatetening to stop trimming their horses unless they read Feet First. A couple of them took me seriously!!
The nearest I get to Dorset is when I trim a friends horse near Twyford in Hants. Basically trimming for me is a necessity turned into a hobby, as there are no trimmers who regularly cover East Berks, or Hants as far as I am aware, so I guess we can add these to Dorset as trimmer free zones. |
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| horsesfirst |
There used to be someone who advertised themselves in Hants - but as I don't live there I never kept track.
Kent does have a couple of trimmers, one AANHCP and the other one is EP - but I still do my own and another. My ex Farrier used to declare my neds feet perfect, when I knew they were not and when I started trimming them myself he didn't notice - just thought they were self trimming.
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| stormybracken |
I don't know if she'll travel that far but Caroline Andresen has been a great help to me www.aanhcpbarefoot.co.uk . She hasn't trimmed them so I can't vouch for that, I'm hoping to keep my farrier, but she has come out to Shaftesbury and seen them, and been a great help both telephone and email. | ||
| Yann |
There are a couple of EPA trimmers who might cover that patch.
http://www.epauk.org/findep.php And a couple of Somerset / Dorset based IIEP trimmers http://www.appliedequinepodiatry.org/iaep/locate.html#UK |
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| babyjay |
She probably will, has been to my yard and seen my mares feet on 2 occasions in the past. But the call out fee just kills it! She's very passionate! I never mentioned it cos wont sure we could on here her being from another branch. |
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| dorisday |
Thanks to all for the replies - I will pass them onto Blas's new caretakers for her reference. Lovely stuff. | ||