RE: Mud and shoes

["Snodgrass, Bonnie" <snodgrab@ncr.disa.mil>]

Plus, if your horses feet are constantly in mud then the hoof walls soften
up and they loose shoes much more easily.

Bonnie Snodgrass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Teddy Lancaster [SMTP:Teddy@runningbear.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 17, 1999 7:05 AM
> To:	lori cox
> Cc:	ride camp
> Subject:	RC:  Mud and shoes
> 
> Don't fall pray to that old wives tale....mud does not suck shoes off,
> horses
> do.  The mud merely slows up the front feet enough where the hind feet can
> grab
> the heal and pull the shoe off.
> 
> Teddy
> 
> lori cox wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Heidi Sowards <ribbitttreefrog@yahoo.com>
> > >badly.)But he did say, because he set the shoe with lower nails, that
> > >it helped the mud suck off the shoe easier.
> >
> >   I just have to ask, is it really possible for mud to suck a shoe off?!
> > We have a LOT of mud here when the snow melts.Sometimes it lasts for
> months
> 


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