I don't get that white feet are
weaker theory. My shoer said there is no difference in white and black feet
as far as strength. I have a horse for sale on endurance.net that has 4 white
feet and he could easily be a barefoot competing horse. I have never seen a
difference in white feet.
At 12:42 PM 8/21/2004, Ed & Wendy Hauser wrote: >The
white foot was definitely more likely to get brittle and chip in
August.
I've never had a horse with different colored feet that wore,
chipped or anything different from foot to foot. That's why I am so
hard pressed to understand the supposed
strengthening/toughening/antifungal/superduper powers of melanin. Of
course, I'm just one person, and maybe my horses are the exception.
It sure seems to me that it wouldn't make genetic sense for hooves to be
different strengths/toughnesses on the same horse, though. You'd
think that would lead to higher incidence of lameness and greater
instances of becoming dinner for a
predator.
________________________________ Lif
Strand
fasterhorses.com
Quemado NM USA
