Veterinary Student

[connemara92]

Hi guys!

I'm new in this forum. I'm a spanish veterinary student, and i joined this forum hoping you can help me.

I have to do a work for a subject called Sportive Equine Medicine. I'm really interested in barefoot horses and it's cares, and also in shoed horses. So I would like to know your opinion about that topic. I would like to know what do you think, if you have horses and how do you have them, and also which ones you think are the advantages and disadvantages of both ways.

My opinion is that barefoot horses suffer from more injuries and deformations of the hoof due to not having a shoe to protect it. I know from the existance of some shoes that are used for barefoot horses to train and compete when the field is hard, but appart from having to use them so often in my opinion, tha mainteinance of the barefoot horse is higher than if you just shoe them.

Anyway, here it is my opinion, now, I will wait for your answers, hope you can help me.

Regards,

Carmen.

PS: It would be so helpful if you tell me at the end of the post if your job is related or not with horses.

 

[Exploding Chestnuts]

Absolutely disagree with shoeing, and I worked with hundreds of horses over a lifetime before I saw the light.
The equine was born without shoes and evolved to run on the steppes, covering 30 miles per day, browsing on scrub, though of course the horses of the Camargue and most leisure horses don't do this.
Try the Rockley Fam site: they re hab horses, all of whom are vet referrals. The may let you have a copy of their vet paper.
The horse which is shod every 6/8 weeks is going to be unbalanced at least part of the time.
The horse who has well balanced feet and good managment can be self trimming, so his feet are the correct length every day.
And modern boots are super if they are needed and fitted properly,

 

[Exploding Chestnuts]

please post this again in "veterinary and hoofcare"
I worked with racehorses mainly.

 

[ycbm]

Hi guys!

I'm new in this forum. I'm a spanish veterinary student, and i joined this forum hoping you can help me.

I have to do a work for a subject called Sportive Equine Medicine. I'm really interested in barefoot horses and it's cares, and also in shoed horses. So I would like to know your opinion about that topic. I would like to know what do you think, if you have horses and how do you have them, and also which ones you think are the advantages and disadvantages of both ways.

My opinion is that barefoot horses suffer from more injuries and deformations of the hoof due to not having a shoe to protect it. I know from the existance of some shoes that are used for barefoot horses to train and compete when the field is hard, but appart from having to use them so often in my opinion, tha mainteinance of the barefoot horse is higher than if you just shoe them.

Anyway, here it is my opinion, now, I will wait for your answers, hope you can help me.

Regards,

Carmen.

PS: It would be so helpful if you tell me at the end of the post if your job is related or not with horses.

As a person who wants to be a vet, I would expect you to have some proper evidence for this statement. Do you?

My horses are all barefoot and have been for many years. I never use boots. They are hard working horses and none of them have ever had any injury or deformation of the feet.

I have rehabbed several horses where vets have recommended retirement or humane destruction to full work barefoot.

We have a specialist in the UK at rockleyfarm.blogspot.com which has done the same with dozens of horses over the last six or so years.

It is my own opinion, for which I have no scientific evidence either but plenty of experience, and I am not a vet doing research, it is shoeing which causes the deformity of feet and not the other way around.

 

[Exploding Chestnuts]

Andalusian cross that I had, had really good feet,

 

[okepunya]

Hi guys!

I'm new in this forum. I'm a spanish veterinary student, and i joined this forum hoping you can help me.

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welcome

 

[connemara92]

thanks