Horse Problems: What is a sheer heel?
Your horse is lame and the vet says the problem is in the hoof but there is no reaction to hoof testers. If this is the case with your horse then you may want to consider a horse problem called sheer heel. When one side of the horse’s hoof grows faster than the other side [...]
The Long Road Back for a Rescue Horse
I paid good money for my horse, Remi, because I saw his potential but in reality he has been a rescue project from the start. When I bought him in the summer of 2007 he was a burned out roping and barrel horse. He had bucked off every previous owner and he was about as [...]
Finally a low starch, low fat, high fiber ORGANIC horse feed
Ever heard of a feed called Finally? Most have not. I have been aware of this feed for several years but did not promote it because it was so hard to get except in certain areas. It seems UPS has started shipping pallets at a price that is still high but doable to get horse [...]
My barefoot horse gets mud boots
I continue to gain with Remi on his feet. I absolutely love the Easyboot glove boots. Remi wore them pretty much 24/7 for about 2 and a half months and then we started getting rain. With the mud the gloves shifted on his feet and they started to tear at the toe and I was [...]
Feet First – Good book for getting your horse barefoot
Feet First – Barefoot Performance and Hoof Rehabilitation by Nic Barker and Sarah Braithwaite is one of the best books on Hoof care I have seen. Nic and Sarah started on their path of having barefoot horses when 3 out of 5 of their horses went lame while in shoes. When conventional veterinary care was [...]
Remi getting better
It is time for an update on Remi in his journey to being a sound barefoot horse. He is doing well with his glove easyboots. I am having to leave them on all the time to keep him from wearing off his sole but I found if I put a product called Ab Zorb X [...]
Remi goes swimming
One on the advantages of having Remi a barefoot horse again is that I can take him swimming in the lake without having to worry about him pulling shoes off in the mud. The temp has been over 100 for the past week so this morning my friend, Sharon, and I went to the lake [...]
Remi a barefoot horse again!
I am so excited that I may finally be able to get Remi back to being a barefoot horse. The shoes with the fill in pad material seem to have done their job of letting him build up some sole. His last radiographs show his sole thickness has almost doubled in the six months he [...]
Remi goes back in metal shoes
I had to put Remi back in natural balance shoes yesterday. I loved the epona shoes but they did not hold up well in my rocky terrain. I feel the challenges with this shoe were more Remi and not the shoe itself. I loved that the epona shoe gave such good frog support and [...]
Update on Remi feb 2009
After working with Remi for almost three years to get his hooves good enough for him to be a barefoot horse I made the decision to put shoes on him last month. Radiographs showed that he had inflammation on the bottom of both his coffin bones and his sole was still too thin to provide [...]
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