Just looking at the
logistics of what the trim does to the internal hoof, it makes it easy to
understand that it really is the trim that causes the trouble??..not that
someone misunderstood how to apply it.
***Interesting....But what you
spoke of regarding the trimming away of the bars, heels trimmed below sole,
thinning the sole, etc, makes no logical sense at all.
I am liking more and more how my
farrier shoes my horses. I admit to being clueless at times, but when I
ask questions, he has LOGICAL answers. He only trims off the dead parts,
and keeps the hoof wall trimmed level to sole. He takes the toes back;
but also keeps the heels from getting too high and underrun. He sets the
shoe back as far enough as he can.....although he feels if you put TOO much
branch behind the heel it affects how the foot lands and can send quite a bit
of shock up the leg (in other words the branch can stick out behind a heel a
little, but not much more than where the heel would be if the horse has just a
good trim...), again, this made sense to me....he leaves a bit of shoe at back
sides for expansion, and uses front 3 nail holes. The finished
product looks fairly balanced.
What I have seen from past shoers
in my area, is the really long toe, low heel......to the opposite of really
high heel with small shoe set so far forward there is heel behind the shoe;and
horse steps off back of shoe....and angle all wrong (like horse is up on
stilts)..****
