RE: [RC] [RC] Bare VS Shod: There must be a compromise - Karen Standefer
Well, I for one was not angry at
all. I just simply disagreed with your comments. Specifically, this
comment:
Something is very wrong if you are able
to rasp the SOLE. The sole
should never be that low (close to the ground) the sole shouldn't be =
bearing any weight. (yes, I do see this on occasion - on severely
foundered horses, nothing rideable)
For 90% of the horses in pastures across
the US,
this just simply isn’t true. The sole is an integral part of weight
bearing, along with the frog and bars. Even if you leave a “bead”
of hoof wall in the toe area, on a barefoot horse, the hoof wall will simply
sink into the deformable surface on which the horse is housed and allow the
sole and frog to support most of the weight of the horse. On a deformable
surface, the sole becomes very concave and much deeper than hooves that are
housed on rocky, hard, minimally deformable terrain. In addition, on a
deformable surface the horse needs more hoofwall for traction. But,
still, the hoof wall is not bearing the brunt of the horse’s weight………….the
sole and frog are with support from the other structures.
Horses that live on rocky, hard, minimally
deformable terrain will have flatter soles and no hoof wall touching the ground
(studies from R. Bowker, G. Ovnicek, R. Redden) on the front hooves. The
hoof wall is basically “floated” from the abrasion of the rocky
terrain.
Just my $.02
Karen
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of steelsidedown Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006
8:07 AM To: Ridecamp Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] Bare VS
Shod: There must be a compromise
n response, I got a whole bunch of angry people, telling me
I was wrong, yet sending me pictures of the trim I described.
Huh? I'm still a little confused, did I misspell a word? I
don't have time to respond to everyone, but rest assured if you emailed me a
picture -- all those pictures where of hooves with nice concave soles and
weight bearing hoof wall.
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