I believe some horses can not go barefoot, and some can. I have been
fortunate, I have not owned a horse that required shoes every time. I put them
on my gelding once when he was going through a weird growing stage and his heels
became slightly contracted. 8 weeks and one pair of shoes, and he has been
barefoot ever since. We train on hard/ rocky ground and I have had no problems.
My Morgan mare just completed Leatherwood barefoot!
However, I do own a pair of easy boots for each horse that I have,
and if I am going to be riding on gravel, or pavement, I use them. Otherwise,
they are barefoot 24/7. My horses are not front runners, if I was picking up the
pace, then I would step back and re evaluate my decision to leave them barefoot,
until them, I will leave them barefoot as long as it works for them.
> Amazing how defensive someone can get on a
subject.
Yeah, it is amazing isn't it! It's a good idea to reread your
posts if you don't like defensive reactions, because if someone takes it
wrong you are certain to hear about it.
It's too bad that you feel
I over reacted, but someone asked a question, I answered it, and you came
back with the statement "Oh geezzz, is it really time to go THERE
again?" that had enough attitude stuck in there to trigger a
response.
There are hundreds of posts on metabolics, conditioning,
electrolytes, saddles, feeding alfalfa etc etc etc... ***Many*** of them
are reruns because, like it or not, RideCamp is a forum for discussing
these topics ad nausium. Barefoot IS going to continue to be a popular
topic because more of us are successfully doing it, and others want to
learn about it.
Like I said earlier, it you don't want to read it? Hit
the delete key!
>
-----Original Message----- > From: Jonni [mailto:jonnij@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 11:09 AM > To: healthyhoof@xxxxxxxxxxx;
'Ridecamp' > Subject: Re: [RC] to shoe or not... > >
Amazing how defensive someone can get on a subject. I did not > say
shoe or not shoe, did I??? I did not agree or disagree, > did
I??? I commented that I thought we just HAD this > discussion. I
said NOTHING (can I make that about a size 72 > font?) NOTHING one way
or the other on the subject, yet you > felt the need to defend yourself
and your beliefs, and ASSUME > what my opinion is. > There is
nothing that has not been said on this subject, that > has not been
beat to death on RC. I suggested folks look in > the archives. A
wonderful source of information.Some of the > new folks might not even
know we HAVE > archives! So, maybe YOU should get a grip,
and not attack > someone who made > a simple comment, on how some
subjects that get beat into the > ground, and then trotted across by
both shod and unshod horses. > Jonni >
