Re: barefoot - long

[Toni Jones <tjones@coinet.com>]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for a great post in answer to my longer than necessary post!! I mean it.
I will have some more thoughts on it later and will post more as I formulate
more questions to you. Your horses' records are impressive by anyone's
standards. And this was the kind of answers, or life experiences I was looking
for.... or more specifically, the first hand stuff you have experienced. Not
just talkers (like me and others) but actual doers with meat behind what they
say.

more later
toni
central oregon


Bob Morris wrote:

>  mares have foaled in the hills and Toni:
>
> I am aware there is a lot of thought behind your posting but there is also a
> lot that you have not thought through. No, you are not wrong in your
> thinking and please do not take my words as a flame.
>
> We have been raising endurance horses for the past twenty years and are now
> tapering off in our program. Our horses have been kept in about 140 acres of
> Idaho edge of desert foothills with 24/365. No shelters no stalls just the
> natural way of living. We do not shoe until absolutely necessary. We raise,
> train and condition our horses in as natural a system as is possible. The do
> get some rolled barley each day and hay when the natural vegetation is not
> available like right now. Water is from a spring or the stream when it is
> running.