Ok, I’ve been trying to stay out of
this conversation since I haven’t defined my own opinion yet. I do barefoot as a rule, but doubt Strasser would like my trim and we shoe when needed. But I haven’t defined what is sufficient need yet – sometimes it might just be
for convenience.
Anyhow, I was recently at a lameness vet
whose husband is a farrier. She has worked with Gene Ovnicek and has done a plethora of xrays
and from those taken some interesting measurements. They did an experiment where they trimmed
a horse and verified P3 was ground parallel. Then did sole and bar paring that is
typical among many farriers (as they put it, many farriers seem to think they are paid by the amount of hoof laying on the ground when they’re done). Then they x-rayed again and found P3 had
dropped 3 degrees!
They believe that the bars are part of the
hoof support. Regarding sole
callous they flick out the loose stuff and then stop. They were impressed enough with our
trimming methods that they want to study our mustangs
feet, believing that we are not altering them so much from natural that they
can’t learn from how they had developed in the wild. I thought that was kind of cool!
Marlene
-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Lysane Cree
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002
4:08 PM
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [RC] Why pare away
sole???
O.k., here's a question that may give rise to more
disagreements, but I am prepared... :)
I have never quite figured it out - why is it really
neccessary to pare away any sole at all??? Isn't the sole better off thicker
than thinner? I understand trimming the hoof if it gets too long, and keeping
the horse's foot at an optimum angle, etc...but the sole paring has always left
me a little confused and wondering whether it is necessary at all.
Lysane
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