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At 08:00 PM 8/21/2004, heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Unlike Lif, I have yet to see a horse with some light and some dark feet
> that I cannot detect a difference between the pigmented and the
> non-pigmented feet.  The difference is often subtle--but it is there.

I'll go out and look closer, but if there is a difference, as you say, it's 
subtle enough as to be not significant.  But what about skin?  Is 
unpigmented skin on a horse *really* less resistant to injury and 
disease?  Or do we just see injury and disease there because the skin is 
white/pink and thus it's more easy to see?

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   Lif Strand      fasterhorses.com
           Quemado NM USA