floradora09
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Ok, so I was/am a massive sceptic about this barefoot business, and over the summer whilst having some foot related lameness issues, began to read up about feet to try and find other ways of helping Win. My farrier is great, and does a fantastic job with him but it seemed worth seeing how he was without shoes. So off I went and educated myself about diet, exercise, trim etc.. and my farrier agreed that it would benefit his feet to have some time out of shoes while he had some downtime. No work for the first 2 weeks, followed by 2 weeks of very light work, and he's now starting to be worked properly again. We can only hack once a week anyway, and the rest is in the school.
I think it looks like his feet are going in the right direction?
Right fore, day shoes came off, about 5 weeks ago: (bear in mind he was due to be shod)
Same foot, today after our ride: (not been touched by anyone since first photo)
He works fine on a surface, in the field and trotted down a road today sound as a pound, but obviously still finds stones tricky.
Here's the whole album for the more obsessive of you!
http://s172.photobucket.com/albums/w15/floradora_2007/Winstons Feet/?start=all
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I think it looks like his feet are going in the right direction?
Right fore, day shoes came off, about 5 weeks ago: (bear in mind he was due to be shod)
![P1060739.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi172.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fw15%2Ffloradora_2007%2FWinstons%2520Feet%2FP1060739.jpg&hash=3b49890a9aeb1e79d3f4e760469a9957)
Same foot, today after our ride: (not been touched by anyone since first photo)
![P1060836.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi172.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fw15%2Ffloradora_2007%2FWinstons%2520Feet%2FP1060836.jpg&hash=5d0ce7a5044361d53e1a64515e30dfe1)
He works fine on a surface, in the field and trotted down a road today sound as a pound, but obviously still finds stones tricky.
Here's the whole album for the more obsessive of you!