While I agree with a lot of what you
say, I was primarily addressing my comments about rasping to those riders whose
horses are not fortunate enough to be barefoot and not fortunate to
have enough land on which to naturally wear their feet. Most domesticated
horses are shod, live in stalls or smallish pastures with few to no rocks in
their fields and therefore their feet need attention. And, IMO, most horse
owners are totally ignorant of the mechanics of the hoof and have to rely on
their farrier and vets for information.
Many, many horses have long toes [many of them
endurance horses] so according to you there are many, many ignorant farriers out
there. But that is another whole discussion.
You said Mother Nature has good ideas and I
totally agree and that is why my horses are barefoot. However, as I stated
previously most horses don't have the opportunity to let Mother Nature assist so
we have to. And, IMO, if a horse has a long toe, if you just take the toe
back without rasping down the wall, the toe will continue to grow long [and
thick]. By rasping the hoof wall one takes off the excess and that will
begin to allow the hoof to take a better form. It is far more complicated
than that, but my whole point was that it is not a bad thing to rasp the
wall. Since Mother Nature can not intervene in most cases, we have to as
stewards of our horses.
candy
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