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 sites
