Hi all, Ok, my mare has ALWAYS had the problem of having enormous amounts of dead sole. Like a few millimeters thick of it every time I trim. It causes her...
hello...just found this group and hoping it's the right one. We have four horses (1QH, 1paso x arabian, a mustang and a QH paint baby) who are all barefoot,...
Hey Nicole ... Equate the dead sole to the callous on your foot. If you were to grow nice, thick callous only to have it pared off every other week or so down...
Hey Denise .. those toes on Kit are awesome! She's beveling/rolling her own toe and making her own breakover as SHE needs it. If her hoof is kept to form, she...
Thought I'd post a copy of a response I sent to someone this morning. I've taken out the names to "protect the innocent" *G* ... The gal who wrote to me --...
HI Gwen, It does come off very easily. And she actually gets sore WITH the dead sole left on, not when I take it off. When her hooves are exceptionally dry and...
Well she's repeated last month, and this month. So Saturday hubby actually had more than 5hrs of sleep under his belt and announced "go get the horses up"...
Welcome I have 2 (4 yr old) Tb's and they have been barefoot all of their lives.. We used to live in west Texas then this past winter we moved out to central...
Gwen, you give such great advice....i've only recently converted my horses to 24 hour turnout, and it DOES make a difference! granted, they spend alot of...
hi Pam! where are you in NC? (just curious) i'm in NC too! Waxhaw. wonderful to hear of TBs being barefoot (when there's so much nay-saying due to old...
Hey Trish ... if your horses are out moving around you won't have to be worrying about the dead sole sloughing off ... the hooves, if they're in proper form...
hi Gwen & thanks....my horses ARE moving about, but my pasture is small (2 acre lot). my younger horse has recently become more sensitive on the fronts - he...
I just acquired a horse I haven't even seen. She's an OTTB (left the track Mon a.m.), 6 years old, with a 5 mos old sesamoid fracture. I will be getting her...
Hi! My name is Katie and I have 9 horses. They live outside 24-7 and all are barefoot. Warmbloods and Thoroughbreds mostly, though there's an odd QH, Appy...
I agree with letting the horse do self-limiting pain management and turn out. I'm of the belief that if the horses go out and use their limbs, they'll...
Morning Katie ... Can you give us some more detailed history on this QH? ie. hoof history, health history, present living conditions (wet?dry?rocky? grass?) as...
Hi All ... We're running low on storage space for photos. If you have photos posted to the group files that are older than 3 mos and are not applicable to any...
Gwen, I am having the same problem. I have 4 QH mares, 3 of them have had abscesses this year. 2 are younger mares, 6 & 7 - never worn shoes, the 6 yo has...
My QH lives out 24-7 with various footing - lower area has a creek with damp clay footing, top of the hill is hard fill and gravel, front of the pasture is...
this is off subject of feet but on the titre drawing do they usually come
back ok or do you need boosters very often I wanted to do that with my dog
also? ... ...
... Hi there. The more and more I hear about abscesses, thrush, white line disease, yeast, etc, the more I'm hearing about sweet feed. I've always been the...
For the past 5 years, the titres have come back within normal range, w/o the need for boosters. The only vaccine you may have trouble with is rabies. I was...
Bravo Gwen, I have been practicing this and preaching this for years. I have no hoof problems either. I don't know how a horse could eat that gooey stuff...
well here's one to back up your lecture lol Our animals are drylotted
no choice here but we feed round bales to this particular mule and donkey
and llama,...
"get 'em off sweet feed" AND check the ingredients of any pelleted feed you consider feeding as well. alot of the pelleted horse feeds have molasses, corn,...
I'm sorry but I disagree..I run a breeding farm, and I'm not going to have my mares being in foal and / or nursing without additional calories. It's not fair...
... to have my mares being in foal and / or nursing without additional calories. It's not fair to them, and I'm not going to have them drawn down every year,...
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