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FW: RE: [RC] [RC] [RC] [RC-Digest] hoof protection - terry banister

From: "Nancy Fredrick" <nfredrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "terry banister" <terrybanister@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [RC] [RC] [RC-Digest] hoof protection
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:42:59 -0700

boaboot.com Will be up around 15th or 16th.

-----Original Message-----
From: terry banister [mailto:terrybanister@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:32 PM
To: Nancy Fredrick
Subject: RE: [RC] [RC] [RC-Digest] hoof protection


what's the website?

>From: "Nancy Fredrick" <nfredrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "terry banister" <terrybanister@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [RC] [RC] [RC-Digest] hoof protection
>Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:41:16 -0700
>
>Check out the new boots coming....Boa Boots by Easycare
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of terry banister
>Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 7:15 PM
>To: a.yovich@xxxxxxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] [RC-Digest] hoof protection
>
>
>My horse is almost 10 and never been shod. He has no problem with his front
>feet, so I leave them bare. However, he wears his hind feet a little too
>short before his 5-week trim, and he also wears them unevenly. So in order
>to keep enough heel and levelness, we do 1/2 to 2/3 of our conditioning
>rides with Old Macs (our old standbys), because if they are the correct
>size, they stay on and do not rub. Also, they are holding up longer than
>anything else we have used. The other 1/3 to 1/2 of our conditioning rides,
>we go barefoot in order to maintain/keep his tough, callous sole.
>
>So, because of NATRC rules, you may want to have more than one kind of
>boot
>(then each pair lasts twice as long). I am also having good luck with a
>modified Swiss boot, that Kirt Lander, a barefoot hoof trimmer and
>endurance rider from Arizona designed, which is easy on/off. My hoof
>trimmer
>cut me a pair like Kirt's but he didn't put the keeper strap around the
>fetlock, so mine come off after water crossings. But another woman had Kirt
>make her boots and they had the keeper strap, and she said she had no
>problem with water crossings. And they are low enough on the hoof to work
>for NATRC, so maybe they are an option.
>
>Terry
>"May the Horse be with you"
>
> >From: Alice Yovich <a.yovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: [RC] [RC-Digest] hoof protection
> >Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:38:39 -0600
> >
> >I'm a NATRC rider who knows that I can only compete in easy boots. I also
> >know they aren't all that easy. I have a horse with great feet and I
> >usually ride barefoot. Occasionally I need or want to ride somewhere we
> >need something on the feet. I will probably continue to just shoe for
>those
> >competitions for which I need hoof protection, but I wondered what a
>better
> >alternative to shoeing or easy boots might be. Someone has suggested that
>I
> >get Old Mac's, and they do look great, but I wondered what the other
> >options were. Or should I just get easy boots and use them exclusively
> >since that's what I'd have to compete in. Thanks!
> >Alice Yovich, Reg. 4 Texas
> >It's Almost Christmas! Orders being taken now!
> >www.equi-threads.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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