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[RC] Hot feet - Mike Sherrell

Does anyone have any experience with steel shoes getting so hot from the
ground on a hot day that they cause pain to the horse's feet? Is this even
plausible? I think it may have happened to me, but I've never heard of it.

Regards,

Mike Sherrell

Grizzly Analytical (USA)
707 887 2919/fax 707 887 9834
www.grizzlyanalytical.com



-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Truman Prevatt
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:08 AM
To: heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: k s swigart; Ridecamp
Subject: Re: [RC] The Bare Facts


Yes it was and a good example of how it is all tied together, horse
comfort, gait, behavior, etc. The thing I don't get is I don't think
anyone would disagree that if a horse can go barefoot, that is the
preferable way. We have a young one we are just starting to ride. She is
learning a lot, proper balance on the straight away, now we are adding
some tight curves to get her to balanced under those conditions. She
gets ridden about twice to three times a week and so far she doesn't
show any signs of foot soreness, breaking up of the hoof or excess wear.
We do give her a week off to process what she has learned about every 4
or 5.

The work has stimulated hoof growth and her hoofs are nicely shaped for
the work. However, when we start working her more she will need shoes
and she will get shoes - starting with light weight aluminum and then
working up to steel as she needs. While she grows tough dense hoof, but
she does not grow it exceptionally fast and at some point wear will
become an issue. Her mother grew good dense hoof but didn't grow it
fast. Given the choice, however, between good dense hoof and fast
growing "soft hoof" I'll take dense hoof any day.

I can't see where how one manages one's horses feet needs to be a
religion or what business it is of anyone else if I want to shoe. After
all we should all be concerned with the comfort, health and safety of
our horses as we ask them to do things they never do in nature - carry a
rider for a long distance over trails we dictate - which are not trails
they would necessarily traverse given their own choice.

Truman

heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Kat, 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.


--

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things
and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil
things, that takes religion.” Steven Weinberg – Nobel Laureate, Physics


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