Re: Head Bobbing

Wendy Milner (wendy@wendy.cnd.hp.com)
Fri, 18 Oct 96 13:18:27 MDT

>
> The head goes up when the sore foot goes down. This way the horse can
> reduce the weight on the sore foot hitting the ground.
>
Only if the sore foot is the front foot.
If the lame foot is the rear foot, then the head will go down
when the foot is placed on the ground. This shifts the weight
to the front end of the horse reducing the weight on the back
leg.

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Wendy


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