Okay I just spent a lot of time in a group dedicated to the natural foot thing. They got some solid ideas about building up the hoof to its "natural depth" and then going without shoes..

I have never really thought of why we really shoe em? but understand that the longer they stand around the softer there hoof gets and its areas... guess it is kind of the less work around here I do, I get soft in certian areas...

Has anybody here swapped their horse back to no shoes? Wouldn't that be nice to put your horse back to natural and save the extra bucks to only a trim?

(Oh don't worry about the grammer or spellin' - I get enough of that from my wife)