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[RC] Shoes or No Shoes... - Darolyn Butler-Dial

Hi all,
No debate do I want to start either. but just passing on three of our
horses just did 100 miles barefooted.  44 of the miles were on sandy &
some fairly gravely (much to our dismay) roads. the balance of 56 miles
was mainly forest trails with some short stints of gravel connecting
roads.  We had 14 horses in our group do the 50 barefooted.  Yes, I
still do shoe on occasion (with Equiflex polyurethanes) when I
absolutely have to, but I can tell you that our horses hate it when we
do, they get very sad & depressed expressions on their faces, sometimes
they even have a light colic in response.  They travel different, horses
that don't forge or interfere barefoot are suddenly hitting and clicking
and bloodying their bulbs.  Do yourself a big favor & look over some of
the "barefoot web pages, such as www.thehorseshoof.com
www.thenakedhoof    and draw your own conclusions about why barefoot is
better, which is much more than most people would ever believe.  And the
best thing.. You can learn to do it yourself.. No more waiting on the
farrier, & no one really knows your horse better than you do. and you
will, once you start studying his feet in a consistent manner.

Dare    25,000 Miles & counting   AERC # 25   check my website too.

Darolyn Butler-Dial & Mark Dial 
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