Recent content by Ridendrive

OK. I give up. I see we have a few young "barefoot only" girls here. We'll see what you've learned in a decade or two. Best wishes to you and good luck:)....

Um, well heres why. Shoes will protect the sole from bruising caused by rocks or hard spots. Properly sized, balanced and applied, they'll hold the foot together and prevent the current cracks from traveling further up the hoof wall and therefore taking even longer to resolve. Until those feet...

To me it looks like she has a nutritional issue. Without knowing her diet, I can only guess, but from my experience she seems to need a ration balancer. Is she a thoroughbred on wet grass? Those walls are thin and weak and her soles are flat. You can see the inch or so of growth coming from the...

There are human antibiotic creams that have a numbing agent in them (lidocane or some such thing). Go to your local pharmacy, drug store, or whatever you call it in England (I'm in Canada) and ask them. My horse currently has a wound on the outside of a hind leg near the pastern (it's been...