Re: Morrison roller shoe

On Feb 16, 6:53 pm, cindi <allisonac...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't think anybody is advocating that.  You don't just turn them
out and hope.  You ride and otherwise exercise them, trim them as
necessary, and boot them as necessary also, gradually increasing the
amount of work they do without boots...

around here the boots collect condensation from the heat of the
feet...so
you have recreated water yet again...which is why they are mushy to
begin with..



been there, seen it happen to a nice
Fresian who is now ruined

How did he get ruined?

he went from properly shod in a prevent defense for the ringbone
they are known for......to
barefoot and ignored...instead of keeping him from water his new owner
(who paid 22,500 for him)
left him out all the time...the natural way...he rubbed his 4 foot
long mane off from the bugs...his immense feathers were never fan
dried and he had chronic scratches...
off the daily wormer to wormed when she felt like it...so last I heard
her nice third level dressagy
fresian was seized for a board bill :< nad has impressive ring bone
in both fronts....


Or the properly cared for... I think you might not realize that a huge
contingent of the barefoot folks utilize "soaking pools" daily for
their horses.  They believe wetness is necessary and want the feet wet
every day.  I don't think it's an issue in a properly functioning
foot.

well...I think they'd be wrong in all but the high desert...I do
not want wet feet in a
horse I am getting paid to see about not in any form ...what they do
at home is there own affair...


Here in Galt we don't have the amount of rainfall you do, but I bet we
have more standing water.  My pastures and turnouts have been almost
completely flooded for 2 months straight now.  There were two little
strips of higher ground that was still mud in each turnout, but the
rest of them, and almost always where the horses stand, was under
water to the top of the hoof and mud to the middle of the canon bone.
For 2 months straight.


that would suck...I'd move away...but then again are these
horses
being worked four times a week for 1 hour plus each time a day??
pasture bugs can stand around and do nothing


Most of them cause tissue damage, period.  The damage might not be too
great in a large number of cases, but that is how they work, after all
- by killing living things.

me and you must be talking about two different
chemicals....last I checked
nail polish and tannic acid weren't used for killing things...

Tamara in TN
.

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