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RE: [RC] Bare VS Shod: There must be a compromise - heidiCorrect trimming is correct trimming, whether barefoot or shod.
It does indeed sound like you had a problem with your first farrier--and
leaving too much toe is a common one.
That said, I've just started with a new farrier, too--and the
majority of my horses are barefoot, since they are not working most of
the time. My old farrier had a tendency to leave too much toe on
the barefoot horses, too--it has nothing to do with shoeing, it has to
do with trimming. I kept asking for less toe and more heel, and
he would "get there" on the horses that were easy, but not on the ones
that tend to wear too much heel. The new farrier had them with
more heel and looking terrific even the first time he trimmed them.
The problem is in finding farriers that actually understand feet--not
in shod vs. barefoot.
Heidi
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