Ridecamp: Re: [RC] White hooves

At 03:37 PM 5/27/02, Maggie & David wrote:
> White hooves tend to be softer. If you have a good farrier, and your horse 
> doesn't have to stand in mud all of the time, you'll never have a problem.

So if white hooves are softer, why wouldn't a horse with some white and 
some dark hooves show different amounts of wear on different colored 
fee?  Why wouldn't a parti-colored hoof wear on the white parts more than 
the dark? It just doesn't happen that way.  This topic has come up before 
and no one has ever explained the actual supposed biology of why white and 
dark feet *on the same horse* should not be equally strong.

Lif Strand
Quemado NM  USA
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