wonder if this works like the old cowboy remedy I
heard about years ago to help toughen the soles of tenderfooted
horses?
Put your heavy cast iron frying pan on the hot
stove, add enough bacon grease to about an inch or more deep. When it is
very hot set it on the ground and set horse's foot in it. Horse will (?)
stand till the heat works into the sensitive inner sole. When this
happens, it's done. Start over on the other feet.
The idea was to deaden the nerves close to
the surface of the sole.
Never tried it, don't know if it works, but guess
it might.
Howard, i mentioned that i was going to read Cold Mountain
and i did and enjoyed it a lot. In it there is the strangest
recipe for lameness i ever heard that some Gypsies did.."A woman snubbed a big
bay up to a birch trunk and then twitched it and poured lamp oil on the frog
of its hoof and lit fire to it to curb a tendency to lameness." Thats a
new one to me and i just wonder what AERC or the Vets would think of that? tom
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