Re: FOUR-POINT SHOEING

["Maggie Mieske" <mmieske@netonecom.net>]

John,
Check out www.horseshoes.com for more info.  They have some articles on
their website about the 4 point trim and natural shoeing, too, I think. 
You can also post questions on their bulletin boards and maybe find someone
who has experience with it.  We do not have experience with it...we have
heard two sides of the story, good and bad but no personal experience to
know which is which.  Let us know if you have it done how you like it!  I
think it has some good points and bad points and that it may work on some
horses and not on others.  For example:  wild horses have 55 degree angles
and tough frogs and all that but they are not being ridden and choose their
terrain while we ride our horses around in circles, on gravel, on sand,
etc.  However there is merit in what the 4 point trim extols...horses need
to have heels (which a lot of farriers chop off going back to the OLD myth
that the ideal angle is 45 degrees...check out your 4-H horse books...they
still say 45 degrees is ideal) and tough frogs AND soles...some farriers
pare away far too much of both and the 4 point thing has to do with how
wild horses naturally wear away certain areas of hood wall and so
on....check it out.  It is something we would like to learn more about but
I feel it is also something that should not be attempted unless one (the
farrier AND owner) really knows what they are doing and hopefully has had
success with.  Good luck!!
Maggie

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> From: John B.Ayers <ayers@plainfield.bypass.com>
> To: RIDECAMP <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Subject: RC:  FOUR-POINT SHOEING
> Date: Friday, August 13, 1999 3:34 PM
> 
> Who has had experience with the "Four-point"
> or "Natural" shoeing...good or bad?
> 
> We are on the "Great Farrier Search" and one 
> of the candidates is doing it.
> 
> John and Meshack (I don't want to be an experiment!)
> http://www.bypass.com/~ayers (Vermont Equestrian Activities)
> 
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