Natural Horse Concepts That Help Your Horse Thrive™
Barefoot is best for decreased equine lameness. The hoof is the most important part of your equine companion’s anatomy because without a healthy, strong hoof, she’s less likely to survive. This is why it’s important to understand how to care for your equine partner properly – so you can decrease, if not eliminate, most common equine lameness issues.
It’s common knowledge that a horse usually wears shoes, but it’s not so common knowledge that any equine can go barefoot.
Stephanie Trimming a Client’s Horse
Many of us have experienced waking up in the middle of the night thinking about our horse’s soundness. Are we doing the right thing? Is there a better way? You think about all you’ve learned from reading information on natural hoof care and about learning the wild horse trim as well as watching some great videos & DVDs. You may have even attended a natural hoof care clinic.
[Read more…]
If you’re like most people in today’s economy, you’re trying to find ways to save money without compromising the health or safety of you, your family and your animal companions.
Sometimes it seems that costing less and being good for you are mutually exclusive, but today we have great news! Pulling your equine partner’s metal shoes is not only a good way to save money, but it can also be good for her health and safety as well.
[Read more…]
Ransom Performs at a Texas Parelli Event in 2009
In an article I published called Natural Hoof Care For A Healthy Hoof – Six Ways To Read Horses’ Hooves I listed some general guidelines you can use to identify healthy hooves in domesticated horses.
It is important to understand that there are no hard and fast rules and that most any rule has an exception …especially when it comes to an animal such as the horse who has survived for millions of years.
One of the most important lessons to take away from this series on identifying a healthy hoof is that there is more than one wild horse model. Hoof Form is all about adaptation and it can vary significantly from biome to biome. [Read more…]
I love the saying “our eyes are the windows to our souls.”
Let’s take that a step further and say, “Our horses’ hooves are the windows to their bodies.”
In a previous natural hoof care articles, I discussed the importance of looking at the horse from a whole-body standpoint.
In those articles, I mentioned that the hoof is a by-product of most everything else that’s going on in the body.
Pearl at a Pete Ramey Clinic in 2006
In our Natural Hoof Care series I have covered several different “getting started” points of view.
[Read more…]
Register for our free library that provides you access to valuable, cutting edge information on caring for your horse naturally.
