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CJE Reg. Mar 2005	Posted 2016-09-07 9:13 AM Subject: RE: More farrier woes (pics added)
Famous for Not Complaining Posts: 8848 Location: Broxton, Ga	My mare is run barefoot and her being tender is always a issue after a trim....I use Durasole with good results....
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Tdove Reg. Apr 2015	Posted 2016-09-07 9:20 AM Subject: RE: More farrier woes (pics added)
Elite Veteran Posts: 851 Location: West Texas	I do not believe in leaving wall on a barefoot horse. They indeed are meant to walk on the sole. One thing about soreness. 9 times out of 10, it is not the length of the foot after a trim, but the amount of time in between trims. If you go 6 weeks or more in between trims (without some rasping in between), you most likely will have a little tenderness at trim time. This is even when the foot is not trimmed too much and especially true with previously wet conditions and thrushy feet. Ideally, a barefoot horse could be trimmed down to low heels and no wall, with a good amount of healthy frog and rasped weekly to maintain the level, shape, and mustang roll. If you don't do that and break out the nippers, about 3 weeks is ideal. Either one of those will drastically reduce tenderness, at the exact same level of trim. Most of the time, this requires extra expense or doing things yourself. For many, that is not an option, but you must expect a little tenderness from time to time. I think that is the biggest issue with barefoot trimming. Most horse shoers just trim the foot like they are ready to put a shoe on. Expect quarters cracking out with this type of trim. Other times "barefoot" trimmers will not take enough off, leave hoof flare, and charge you an arm and a leg, while your horse gets major flare and pancake feet. The really good barefoot trimmers are few and far between in my experience. Edited by Tdove 2016-09-07 9:48 AM
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SmokinBandits Reg. Dec 2003	Posted 2016-09-14 10:28 PM Subject: RE: More farrier woes (pics added)
Having Smokin Bandits Posts: 4572 Location: Woodstown, NJ	I would never let someone come back again who hit my horse like that. I've had babies and old horses who might try to take their foot away or lean or something, but no one ever hit them. I wouldn't tolerate it. I would have probably been like you though, and not said anything out of shock, and then later felt guilty. But he wouldn't be getting my money again. I have different farrier problems. But that's another story.
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flyingcolors Reg. Aug 2005	Posted 2016-09-15 11:05 AM Subject: RE: More farrier woes (pics added)
Elite Veteran Posts: 670 Location: Running my kids somewhere.	equussynergy - 2016-09-04 11:27 AM WOW there is like no sole under the tip of her coffin bone, you can see where he rasped the sole ridge off. If she were mine she'd been in boots and pads. ETA: you want 1/2-3/4" colllteral grove depth at the apex of the frog and around 1 inch at the back of the foot. That's what it looked like to me as well. I have one that is VERY hard to trim and my farrier knows this. But if he did that to mine I would be looking for someone new.
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