cptrayes
Well-Known Member
Read no further if you are not interested in barefoot, this will only annoy or upset you and is not meant for you.
If you are interested, take a look at this link where a book from 1880 is quoted (and available to read online if you follow the further link).
I particularly enjoyed finding out that a professor 130 years ago, when horses were machines and either worked or died, believed:
"Unshod horses enjoy almost a total immunity from diseases of the feet and legs. Side-bones, sandcrack, seedy toe, ringbone, thrush, and quittor were never seen in the writers stables. Spavins, curbs, splints, and windgalls were very rare. Thrush is effectually cured by removing the shoe from any horse that suffers from it. Professor Coleman said that the frog must have pressure, or become diseased"
Apparently the book is also available to buy on Amazon.
http://uknhcp.myfastforum.org/about2142.html&highlight=&sid=a708ab3358a157b3e925d24590b7d4ad
If you are interested, take a look at this link where a book from 1880 is quoted (and available to read online if you follow the further link).
I particularly enjoyed finding out that a professor 130 years ago, when horses were machines and either worked or died, believed:
"Unshod horses enjoy almost a total immunity from diseases of the feet and legs. Side-bones, sandcrack, seedy toe, ringbone, thrush, and quittor were never seen in the writers stables. Spavins, curbs, splints, and windgalls were very rare. Thrush is effectually cured by removing the shoe from any horse that suffers from it. Professor Coleman said that the frog must have pressure, or become diseased"
Apparently the book is also available to buy on Amazon.
http://uknhcp.myfastforum.org/about2142.html&highlight=&sid=a708ab3358a157b3e925d24590b7d4ad
Off to have a read!