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Re: [RC] barefoot and circulation - heidiWendy has a mare who cracked a coffin bone in the pasture. To support the foot while healing she had to be shod like that. After the 6 months in that type of shoe (required for complete healing) her injured foot was at least 3/4" narrower than the other. Shows to me what has to be done to prevent the hoof from expanding on each stride, and what would happen if shoeing actually did that. By the way, the mare healed fine and after a barefoot year her foot is about back to normal. That's been my experience as well with such injuries--you need the support to get the injury to heal, but then the foot needs some time to rehab after it has healed. You are absolutely right that if normal shoeing actually did that, every shod horse's feet would eventually look like that... If the feet ARE tending that direction, one certainly needs to get a different farrier! (I had one for awhile when we first moved here that was causing my horse's feet to "shrink" that way--got a different one, and the horses that were being shod by farrier #1 are now "expanded" back to their original foot size. And being barefoot over the winter was only a partial help--they came the rest of the way with correct shoeing!) Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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