JFTDWS
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I'm very curious that the vote appears to show more barefoot horses I would have expected it to show more shod as I'm sure there are more shod horses in work than barefoot / unshod ones. Are the shod population just not bothering or interested enough to vote? Or have things really started to change?
Threads like these tend to inspire more contributions from the "new school of thought people" than "old school of thought people" whether they're about shoes, feeding or any other topic, in my experience. I would imagine that people have a tendancy toward evangelicism when they believe they are acting in the interests of the horse (e.g. because they believe shoeing is evil or unnecessary), while people who believe shoeing is a necessity and had always been fine before will be more inclined to ignore threads like this...
I bet someone objects to the above, but since mine are all unshod but I also believe shoeing can be necessary, I would like to point out that I am offering a reasonably unbiased opinion (in so far as that I'm not overtly in either camp) on a generalisation of why thread polls may skew results

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