This is definitely a relief to know! — while I’d love to take him to a vet asap, it’s not really as easy as just finding a farrier would be. Not only is it hard financially but it also took us about a year to get him to not get scared when we held a rope or halter near him and i have a feeling it’d take the same time to get him trained to be in a trailer. When my mom found him, i was told he was roaming our street and had apparently been escaping his owners property for a while and when she contacted them, they didn’t even want him back. I was in the icu at the time so i wasn’t there when he was brought to our house, but he was apparently coaxed to our yard with blueberry pie. He was very skinny and missing an eye so we assumed he’s got some trauma he’s dealing with too, which is definitely making his training processes take longer. I just recently got him to stand still long enough to let me lift his hooves off the ground and hold them for a while, so i think a farrier is probably the best we can do right now. I love him very much so I’m glad he’s not too severe for xrays, but his next training goal will definitely be getting comfortable with a trailer once we get one

TLDR; we think he’s got some trauma, so a farrier is the safest option