Since people began to use horses in the purposes: for movement or work, there was a need for the horseshoes protecting hooves. It is correct to ground a horse is a complex work which can do not to everyone.
Instruction
1. Before beating a horseshoe, it is necessary to examine hooves of a horse attentively. If on them there are any injuries or in case legs of a horse are inflamed, it is better to refrain from forging and to allow an animal to have a rest.
2. In case with legs everything is all right, it is possible to start the next stage - removal of old horseshoes. It is necessary to remove a horseshoe carefully not to damage it. Take the forging hammer and carefully loosen nails which beat a horseshoe. Further by means of an obsechka (the special tool similar to the extended hatchet) it is necessary to unbend or cut hats of nails. It is necessary to handle with an obsechka extremely with care not to injure it a hoof of an animal. Then the horseshoe is raised over a hoof, pushing under it the opened hoofed ticks. When the horseshoe is raised, slightly strike it with the hammer that tops of nails became visible. Now it is possible to take out accurately and evenly nails and to remove an old horseshoe.
3. When the horseshoe is removed, it is necessary to wash up carefully hooves of a horse, to dry wipe them and to remove the dead part of a hoof. Then it is necessary to take measurements of a hoof. Are for this purpose measured length, hoof width and also width of its calcaneal part. To the set measures the factory horseshoe is selected or in a smithy self-made is made.
4. The new horseshoe made by the necessary sizes is beaten in three stages. At first forging nails on external and inside of a horseshoe are driven in. Then, as well as at a raskovka, the horseshoe precipitates by means of blow by the hammer. After a horseshoe of an osazhen, it is necessary to fix nails by means of hats (they carry the name lambs). On a sole of a hoof there is a white line into which passes an inside layer of a horn wall. This line is clearly visible. It is necessary to beat a horseshoe strictly on it as she is insensitive to pain.