Pitchforked horse

[LuVettes]

Hi,

I'm new here..but I just had to post about Gene Ovnicek. Since I found this sight...looking for his webpage. First I have been going crazy trying to get to his hope for soundess page...which apparently is down and has been or I am having serious computer issues. Thanks so much for posting his email and phone number as I thought I was going to have to go digging for one his old mailers...don't know where I put them.

Now...I have not used the formal EDSS system, which allows you to adjust about everthing there is to the foot I have used his Natrual Balance shoes. They are fabulous.

I had a foundered mare with club foot and back in the late 80s I ran across his shoes. I handed my farrier Gene's Video and a set a shoes and said....I want these on my horse. Best thing I ever did for her. When that farrier retired....I did the same thing with my new one. Back then the only way to get the shoes was to order them direct and so I did and they all thought I was nuts, pushing his Natural Balance Shoe. (That was before he moved to Montana even )

That mare passed away a couple years ago...But I thank Gene and his Natural Balance Shoes for making her life much more comfortable.

So if you see him...tell him THANKS for great product!

Janet

[Faster horses]

Gene will be so glad to hear that he helped yet another horse. He is such a caring person. His fame has come not so much because he seeked it, but because he has such a caring heart.

Do you get RFD-TV? Just in case you don't know, for every hour Dennis Reis is on, Gene is on that program for 10 minutes. Dennis ran into a horse with a problem and Gene fixed the horse, so Dennis is now a die-hard fan. I'm glad because it got Gene much more exposure to help horses. At one time he had 100% success in treating foundered horses.

I ran into a mare at a horse sale that was in the kill pen. She was so miserable she could hardly stand. I wondered how she would ever survive on a truck with other horses. I got the name of the people who owned her and called them up. They said she was foundered and they had tried everything (everything the vets around their area knew, anyway). I gave them Gene's phone number and they called him. They then went to the sale and picked up their horse and took her home. They put his advice to work and saved the horse. They called me a month later to thank me for caring enough to call them. The horse was doing so much better, they were sure she was going to make it back to being a depending horse to ride.

Gene is certainly a self-made man. He has spent a lot of years and gotten under alot of horses to educate himself as to 'natural balance shoeing.' One little example of the man he is, when he first came to our place to shoe he had an apprentice that was a deaf/mute. He learned to 'sign' to speak to the young man. Through Gene's efforts, the young man went on to get his owncontract shoeing for the forest service and has made a fine life, working at his own business.

Gene is a definite success story and it couldn't happen to a better person.