Coverted into a hoof geek!

[pistolpete]

Thinking about hooves constantly at the moment! Another musing is rates of growth. Do you think it's just the same as people with nice nails? Some always grow despite diet some never does that well.
And another thing, the rate of hoof growth isn't always an indication of strength? Can grow slowly but still be strong?

 

[cptrayes]

Thinking about hooves constantly at the moment! Another musing is rates of growth. Do you think it's just the same as people with nice nails? Some always grow despite diet some never does that well.
And another thing, the rate of hoof growth isn't always an indication of strength? Can grow slowly but still be strong?

I think hoof rate growth is highly dependent on workload and diet perfection, but that some horses are much more difficult to perfect the diet than others.

Having said that, I also think some horses are naturally slower growers than others. But I have yet to find a horse whose rate of growth in shoes is much more than half the rate of growth of the same horse barefoot.

Is that your Pete on the RF blog today?

 

[pistolpete]

Yep, that's my boy! He is special in many ways!