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| His feet look so good! I cringe when I see the before pics!!
I shoe one of my horses in the hind only. Just because he slipped without shoes behind. |
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Location: Alabama | What a HUGE improvement...photos are priceless when you take this journey. GREAT job!!! |
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Location: Iowa, LA | barrelracinbroke - 2013-11-25 9:04 PM His feet look so good! I cringe when I see the before pics!!
I shoe one of my horses in the hind only. Just because he slipped without shoes behind.
Thank all of you so much! I'm trying to faithfully rasp him once a week so we can continue to pull back the toes and get those heels to stand up. He gets trimmed by my barefoot trimmer every 4 weeks and she's improved all of my horses' hooves immensely. But his soundness speaks for itself. For a horse that was limping on/off for years and even when the second farrier had him looking the best he was still lame. This was the best decision I made for him and it was largely due to a great farrier located in north Texas that told me how beneficial going barefoot can be. He told me to check out Pete Ramey and the rest is history! |
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| I love this! His "after" feet look so much healthier. It makes me sad to see the hoof overlapping the too-small shoes in one of the pictures. Ick!!! It must feel like wearing a friend's high heels that are a size too small. |
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Location: Iowa, LA | In EIGHT WEEKS time look at how these heels have changed! Not to mention the foot shape changing from oval to more round! I couldn't get the entire pics to fit in my collage program because I'm technically challenged! LOL
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Location: Texas | Your horses feet look great! I have one suggestion for you if you are going to be running barrels... We need traction on different types of ground. I never trim my horses frog and I never take off any sole. The frog will shed by itself when it is suppose to. The more frog on the hoof, the better. I let the water line grow out and form a "rim", so to speak, to add traction. Also, your horses heels are fine like they are. He has a great angle to his hoof and I wouldn't change anything. Those heels are perfect. Congrats!
PS... This is just my opinion... After 20+ years of barefoot horses. ;-)
Edited to say... His heels will continue to spread over time. Just rasp them gently as they grow under.
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Location: Iowa, LA | grinandbareit - 2014-01-23 7:35 PM
Your horses feet look great! I have one suggestion for you if you are going to be running barrels... We need traction on different types of ground. I never trim my horses frog and I never take off any sole. The frog will shed by itself when it is suppose to. The more frog on the hoof, the better. I let the water line grow out and form a "rim", so to speak, to add traction. Also, your horses heels are fine like they are. He has a great angle to his hoof and I wouldn't change anything. Those heels are perfect. Congrats!
PS... This is just my opinion... After 20+ years of barefoot horses. ;-)
Edited to say... His heels will continue to spread over time. Just rasp them gently as they grow under.
I'm not back to running him, yet, but we became way more aggressive with those heels and toes about 6 months ago. I've been faithfully rasping heels and toes to try to bring them back more. This barefoot is pretty easy since I nor the trimmer ever take any frog or sole off. I barely trust myself with the rasp! LOL but I am hoping to allow more of a "rim" once we get the heels/toes backed up to where we want them. Both of his inside heels were more under-run that the outside heels. I sure do hope he doesn't need help for traction once I start running him! I've never run him without shoes, but he's more sound than he's ever been. So, you just keep the walls a little longer than the sole to give you that rim around the edges? |
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Location: Texas | annemarea - 2014-01-23 7:49 PM
grinandbareit - 2014-01-23 7:35 PM
Your horses feet look great! I have one suggestion for you if you are going to be running barrels... We need traction on different types of ground. I never trim my horses frog and I never take off any sole. The frog will shed by itself when it is suppose to. The more frog on the hoof, the better. I let the water line grow out and form a "rim", so to speak, to add traction. Also, your horses heels are fine like they are. He has a great angle to his hoof and I wouldn't change anything. Those heels are perfect. Congrats!
PS... This is just my opinion... After 20+ years of barefoot horses. ;-)
Edited to say... His heels will continue to spread over time. Just rasp them gently as they grow under.
I'm not back to running him, yet, but we became way more aggressive with those heels and toes about 6 months ago. I've been faithfully rasping heels and toes to try to bring them back more. This barefoot is pretty easy since I nor the trimmer ever take any frog or sole off. I barely trust myself with the rasp! LOL but I am hoping to allow more of a "rim" once we get the heels/toes backed up to where we want them. Both of his inside heels were more under-run that the outside heels. I sure do hope he doesn't need help for traction once I start running him! I've never run him without shoes, but he's more sound than he's ever been. So, you just keep the walls a little longer than the sole to give you that rim around the edges?
Not really... You don't want the walls longer because it will cause them to pull away from the white line. It's the water-line that grows out. The clear line that you see on the bottom. You want the white line to be tight. My gelding has never been shod... His hoof grows big and round with very little sole from the point of frog to the toe. He has a natural arch if you look at his hoof from the side, and he doesn't have a lot of heel. And he can handle any kind of ground. I will take a pic of it when the weather warms up this weekend and post it. Here is a link to some great pics.
http://www.barefoothorse.com/barefoot_HoofShape.html
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Location: Iowa, LA | grinandbareit - 2014-01-23 8:18 PM annemarea - 2014-01-23 7:49 PM grinandbareit - 2014-01-23 7:35 PM Your horses feet look great! I have one suggestion for you if you are going to be running barrels... We need traction on different types of ground. I never trim my horses frog and I never take off any sole. The frog will shed by itself when it is suppose to. The more frog on the hoof, the better. I let the water line grow out and form a "rim", so to speak, to add traction. Also, your horses heels are fine like they are. He has a great angle to his hoof and I wouldn't change anything. Those heels are perfect. Congrats! PS... This is just my opinion... After 20+ years of barefoot horses. ;-) Edited to say... His heels will continue to spread over time. Just rasp them gently as they grow under. I'm not back to running him, yet, but we became way more aggressive with those heels and toes about 6 months ago. I've been faithfully rasping heels and toes to try to bring them back more. This barefoot is pretty easy since I nor the trimmer ever take any frog or sole off. I barely trust myself with the rasp! LOL but I am hoping to allow more of a "rim" once we get the heels/toes backed up to where we want them. Both of his inside heels were more under-run that the outside heels. I sure do hope he doesn't need help for traction once I start running him! I've never run him without shoes, but he's more sound than he's ever been. So, you just keep the walls a little longer than the sole to give you that rim around the edges? Not really... You don't want the walls longer because it will cause them to pull away from the white line. It's the water-line that grows out. The clear line that you see on the bottom. You want the white line to be tight. My gelding has never been shod... His hoof grows big and round with very little sole from the point of frog to the toe. He has a natural arch if you look at his hoof from the side, and he doesn't have a lot of heel. And he can handle any kind of ground. I will take a pic of it when the weather warms up this weekend and post it. Here is a link to some great pics. http://www.barefoothorse.com/barefoot_HoofShape.html
Ok I'm confused on what you are talking about! LOL Let me go look at those photos. |
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"Drank the Kool Aid"
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Location: Iowa, LA | Ok so between the wall and the laminae! I like that link! Thanks for sharing! |
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Location: Fort Worth / Springtown | Just wanted to thank you for taking the time to post these photos and updates for everyone else to see --- and congratulate you for the progress - awesome!
Wonder how close-up photos of your horses face/eyes would look along w/ the hoof change photos. There had to have been a wrinkle or two in the muzzle that disappeared or a glow in the eye that would have appeared in later photos!.  |
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Location: North Dakota | Wow!!!! Amazing!!!!!
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Location: MD | what pretty looking feet you've got there!
has it just been farrier work that has helped your boy? or have you given any sort of supplement or anything to help with growth/hoof health? |
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Location: Iowa, LA | txbredbr - 2014-01-24 12:53 PM Just wanted to thank you for taking the time to post these photos and updates for everyone else to see --- and congratulate you for the progress - awesome!
Wonder how close-up photos of your horses face/eyes would look along w/ the hoof change photos. There had to have been a wrinkle or two in the muzzle that disappeared or a glow in the eye that would have appeared in later photos!.
LOL.... I know....Poor guy has given me his all despite having such painful feet. And to think there were people who told me to "whip his @ss" and make him run when he would act up in the warm up pen! LOL I knew better. He's my heart and soul and will be forever! There is nothing like the feeling he gives me when he turns a fast one. And NOTHING like feeling like a winner when you know it's all him making you look like you know what you are doing. Bahaha! I love my Jugs!!!
I can tell you that my vet can no longer pay his mortgage since I went barefoot! LOLOLOL!!!! |
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Location: Iowa, LA | Crowned Image - 2014-01-24 1:11 PM what pretty looking feet you've got there! has it just been farrier work that has helped your boy? or have you given any sort of supplement or anything to help with growth/hoof health?
Not ONE ounce of hoof supplements or magnets or hoof dressings....this is what proper diet/exercise and BAREFOOT trimming can do for you!!! I've learned to use the rasp once a week on him and he gets trimmed by my trimmer every 4 weeks. It took a WHOLE YEAR to grow out my horses' feet when they were shod and on supplements, magnetic bell boots, blisters, etc. Barefoot...it took them 6-8 months with NONE of that!!! I am a barefoot fanatic now! Can you tell??? LOL |
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Location: Wyoming | Thank you for sharing. I am also starting a barefoot journey. I will be attending a school from equine applied podiatry. I don't know if my older horse will be able to go barefoot on the front, but I intend to go without on the hinds. My younger horses won't be shod. I just keep using a rasp and getting advice from my NB farrier. Hoping the school will help me get better at it.
There once was a time I was dead set against it, now I am all for it if the horse can do well without shoes. |
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Location: Iowa, LA | realitycheck - 2014-01-25 2:57 PM Thank you for sharing. I am also starting a barefoot journey. I will be attending a school from equine applied podiatry. I don't know if my older horse will be able to go barefoot on the front, but I intend to go without on the hinds. My younger horses won't be shod. I just keep using a rasp and getting advice from my NB farrier. Hoping the school will help me get better at it.
There once was a time I was dead set against it, now I am all for it if the horse can do well without shoes.
That's awesome about the school! I'm still learning as much as I can! Before I tried barefoot on my OTTB I thought it was just a crock of crap and an all "natural" cult. Then I joined the cult! LOL |
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Location: Wyoming | annemarea - 2014-01-25 1:05 PM realitycheck - 2014-01-25 2:57 PM Thank you for sharing. I am also starting a barefoot journey. I will be attending a school from equine applied podiatry. I don't know if my older horse will be able to go barefoot on the front, but I intend to go without on the hinds. My younger horses won't be shod. I just keep using a rasp and getting advice from my NB farrier. Hoping the school will help me get better at it.
There once was a time I was dead set against it, now I am all for it if the horse can do well without shoes. That's awesome about the school! I'm still learning as much as I can! Before I tried barefoot on my OTTB I thought it was just a crock of crap and an all "natural" cult. Then I joined the cult! LOL
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| They look great! I wish mine could/would go bare foot. I tried it for 6 months and they never quit acting like they were going to die, gave in and put the shoes back on. |
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