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Re: [RC] Shoes or No Shoes... - Karen Sullivan----- Original Message ----- From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> How the horse wears his feet barefoot is how he should have been shod. Truman and all, generally I support comments like the above, since it is founded on common sense; but one of our mares has the strangest-growing feet I have ever seen, as we have tried to have her barefoot over the winter. I cannot think this horse could survive in the wiild long! Barefoot, she entirely loses all heel, but the toes just keep growing and growing. If nothing was done, she would have an extra 2-3 inches of toe out there....so the shoeing does the exact opposite of how she wears...that is to really whack back the toes and also get shoe back under the heel.... Other mare of mine likes to grow heel faster than toe, so we have to watch she doesn't get too upright! Karen =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= http://www.endurance.net/ads/seabiscuit.html Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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