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RE: [RC] The Bare Facts - heidiKat, excellent post.
Your stated: "It never ceases to amaze me the number of people
who ride barefoot horses who don't know how to tell when their horse
has sore feet. The problem is, horses that are foot sore don't
limp (assuming all the feet are sore), so their owners think that just
because their horses' feet don't have chipped hoof walls that there
can't be anything wrong with the feet." This is precisely the
frustration that I feel watching so many of these horses, and is why I
bothered to speak up on this topic in the first place. I read
posts from people talking about how their horses' gaits have "improved"
and yeah, they've certainly changed, but from my observations, usually
not for the better.
You bring up another subject, about correcting "training" problems
with proper shoeing. Likewise, I can't begin to count the number
of horses with serious hoof wall issues (no heels, underrun heels,
high-low syndrome, contracted heels, etc.) that I've seen
corrected and helped to correct with proper shoeing--corrections that
might take years with trimming, or might not be able to be accomplished
at all. I do understand people's frustration with poor shoeing and
the problems it can cause--but to blame "shoeing" overall is
incredible.
Heidi
Debbie Kirchner said:
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