This is why you trust your gut when it comes to your horse

I made the mistake of giving in. I gave in to the pressure of just WANTING PEACE at the barn.  To make a long story short, I had to use the BO's farrier. I used him TWICE. He managed to ruin my horses feet in that time. It took 18 weeks for me to freak out to the point of calling my old farrier and begging him to come back! Luckily, he is awesome and agreed.

America's feet went from this:

To this....

::shakes head::

I had a bad feeling about it the entire time. After the second shoeing, I freaked out. I could not, for the life of me, figure out what in the world he was doing. I hadn't seen him butcher any other horses feet, so why on EARTH did he do his feet like he had. Now his heels are really bruised. He was completely out in his SI AGAIN, even though I had him adjust less than a month ago. Keep in mind, it took a year for him to need to be adjusted last month. It only 11 weeks for him to need to be readjusted because of a shotty farrier job.

So my lesson to anyone who reads this is this:

Trust your gut and ask lots of questions. If you don't like what you hear, find someone who makes more sense and falls in tune with what your gut is telling you. Not only your gut, but  your horses body. Your horse will always be honest.

Here is where we are now. Much better.

And the Derp is looking very handsome! (excuse the stance, this was one of the things that told me his feet were wrong!)