Re: RC: RE: Re: Butler on Barefoot/Strasser/fads...

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 01:13 AM 6/30/01, Darolyn Butler-Dial wrote:
>  I've kept my toes shorter than
>most from the very beginning.  However, it might be that the whole foot is
>pretty short & the toe appears so too.  I felt from the get go that a long
>toe might be detrimental to a distance horse & tried to never leave them too
>long.

So is the old rule of matching the line of the hoof to the line of the 
pastern no longer any good?  I thought "arbitrarily" changing the angle was 
to invite problems.  Is is really OK to talk about and/or trim long or 
short toes w/o considering the structures above the hoof?  Or am I missing 
something?

Lif Strand
Quemado NM  USA
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