Where's the shoe research post gone???

[Tiffany]

Don't totally agree that all carriers are only interested in nailing steel to horses feet. A good farrier will do wat he believes is best for horse which includes barefoot trimming. While barefoot is the minority I think it will be more difficult to find funding although not impossible?

 

[Tiffany]

Oops should obviously say farriers not carriers. Never a good idea using my phone for forum entries

 

[cptrayes]

Don't totally agree that all carriers are only interested in nailing steel to horses feet.

noone said that they were

While barefoot is the minority I think it will be more difficult to find funding although not impossible?

I don't think this is actually about barefoot. I think it's about researching what actually happens to a horse's internal foot structures when they wear shoes long term, in order to give best advice to horse owners who need to use shoes, and to develop better products for them to use if possible. That's why I think that the Worshipful company of Farriers should be doing it, because they are the ones who get the money for shoeing.

 

[Goldenstar]

noone said that they were




I don't think this is actually about barefoot. I think it's about researching what actually happens to a horse's internal foot structures when they wear shoes long term, in order to give best advice to horse owners who need to use shoes, and to develop better products for them to use if possible. That's why I think that the Worshipful company of Farriers should be doing it, because they are the ones who get the money for shoeing.

It won't be farriers it will be a vet at a university that will eventually drive this forward that's what I think will happen .

 

[TwoStroke]

I'm trying to roll to the end as soon as I can my peer reviewed work includes sheep worms and smelly meat I might have found a new species though whether we can prove that or not remains to be seen!

CP have you seen this? I posted it for amaranta on an earlier thread, it isn't that *interesting* but poss worth a read, I have access to a copy

itle: Effects of barefoot trimming on hoof morphology
Author(s): Clayton H. M.; Gray S.; Kaiser L. J.; et al.
Source: AUSTRALIAN VETERINARY JOURNAL Volume: 89 Issue: 8 Pages: 305-311 Published: AUG 2011

essentially it is just showing that bf trim does improve under run heels and negative palmar angles.

This is just what I needed to show my (former) farrier the other week when he was insisting that I needed bar shoes to correct my horse's under run heels and negative palmar angle. Too late now, as I've switched to a bf trimmer .