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Originally Posted by rosalind View Post
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Does anyone have their horses barefoot/have natural hoof trimming? What do you think of it?

OH H*LL YES!!!!!!!!!!

Barefoot has and is outdoing any other methods/techniques of hoof care. Barefoot (when done correctly to each individual horse) is also MUCH MUCH better to go in healing and correcting hooves.
I am a Natural Barefoot Trimmer.

Let me just show you a few pictures of one of my 4 legged clients who went barefoot: (THIS photos are previous to her going under Natural Barefoot care)











This is a 14 yr old Belgian/Quarter horse mare who's hoof wall (several layers deep) busted immediately after having a front set of shoes applied. Two other horses were also given front sets the same day, with the same farrier who apperantely does NOT KNOW how to properly shoe a horse.

For 4 years this horse had "corrective shoing" with three different "Corrective Hoof Specialists" continuing with all sorts of angles, shoes, pads, glue, staples etc etc... which was only hindering the healing of her hoof. Oral and Topical meds etc... She was almost sentenced to euthanasia due to being so seemingly permanently crippled.

After 6.5 years of unuseful "hoofwork", she was finally handed over by her owners to my care- In as long a time as it takes for the hoof wall to grow from cornerary band, to the ground- I had those hooves COMPLETELY HEALED, WALLS SEALED, and hoof working better barefooted than it had ever known. This horse went from stumbling and falling down on gravel roads- to being 100% physically able to walk/trot/canter, even gallop for several miles during a ride on gravel, rocks, dirt- you name the terrain.

Now- I do not have the final photos of her hooves without the remnants of wall cracks. I still have to upload them. But if you are interested in seeing them- just PM me or post, and I will upload them also asap.

Now let a corrective horse shoer come to me with an argument about horses going barefoot:
I'VE GOT SOMETHING TO SAY.


By the way- thanks for posting this, alot of horse owners are needing to enlighten themselves a little more on hoof care.
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