QUESTIONNAIRE: Take your time these are tricky questions.
1. When trimming the foot, the wall and sole should be trimmed until they are perfectly flat before fitting the flat shoe to the sole.
2. Abscesses are usually due to defects around the wall of the foot and are ascending infections.
3. There are 4 bones below the level of the fetlock joint of the horse.
4. Nails behind the widest part of the foot are always desirable because they prevent expansion and give greater security to the shoe.
5. Laminitis is a disease of fat ponies only and can be prevented by strictly dieting the pony.
6. Feeding biotin alone will improve hoof growth and texture in all cases.
7. Laminitis is a disease of fat ponies only and can be prevented by strictly dieting the pony.
8. Seating out the inner edge of the foot surface creates a gap between the shoe and sole which can fill with muck and sand and cause sole pressure. Therefore shoes should never be seated out.
9. The average interval for reshoeing race horses should be 21 - 28 days.
10. The heels and toes of the hoof grow at different rates. The toe grows fast and the heels slow. This is why most horses have little heel to cut off at each shoeing.
11. The shoe should not always follow the natural shape of the foot.
12. Shoes are usually pulled off from the heel. This can be prevented by shoeing the horse with a shorter shoe and is sound farriery practice.
13.There is a training system for farriers in Australia.
14. Farriery is only able to effect the landing and leaving phases of the stride and has no effect on the foot while it is in the air.
15. When trimming for toe-in or toe-out the main area of adjustment is the heels, the toe should remain perfectly level.
16. The foot can be equal in width or length but should never be wider than it is long.
17. The best time to begin trimming a foal with an angular limb deformity is after 3 months of age.
18. The frog is a muscular pump which assists the return of blood flow up the leg.
19. The most common cause of horses becoming severely lame several days after wet weather with heat, pain, strong digital pulse and inflammation to the lower leg is a pedal bone fracture.
20. A 20 year old pony with an extremely long shaggy coat, thirst and chronic laminitis is likely to be suffering from equine pituitary gland hyperplasia.