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The easy explanation is the shoe has more contact with the underside of 
the hoof than does the unshod hoof to the road. That's not surprising. 
The heat transfer is proportional to the surface area of the contact. 
Now if you put a rim pad (insulator) between the shoe and the hoof you 
would most likely find the hoof in the shod foot with the rim pad would 
be cooler than the unshod hoof in the pavement. With an easyboot over 
the shoe you'd find about the same thing as with the rim pad.

Or as Heidi points out - don't stand around on the pavement in hot 
weather or if you have to put on easyboots.

Truman

heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Interesting post. Sounds like one more good reason why horses 
> shouldn't be made to stand on pavement...
> Heidi
>
>
>
>     What I got from this is that the flat wall resting snugly against
>     the shoe
>     caused the hoof to absorb much more heat from the pavement than a
>     rounded
>     hoof surface on the same pavement.


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