Stewart's Corral

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photos for hoof trimming of "Glamour"
28 yr old Morgan mare
Click on newest thumbnails to enlarge to 640x480 or 800x600

This page is not intended to show examples of a healthy, functioning hoof. But is instead for discussing how to attain that goal.

2006.May.29 Trim all heels and keep walls out of ground contact on front. Flat feet and long protecting bars still posing a challenge. Wetter weather is again showing white line problems. Now seeing new growth on outer wall, clearly looks different since on the balancing minerals program. She is getting lots of movement now, trotting and cantering around (for short periods) without problems. Finally took pictures again.
FL	FR	HL	HR
2006.Feb.15 Trim front: increase breakover. Glamour was seen trotting around more that afternoon.
2006.Jan.26 Trim front heels and breakover.
FL	FR	HL	HR
Show archived thumbnails 2006.Jan.10 Trim and rebalance hind. Wearing outer walls faster than inner walls. 2006.Jan.03 Trim front heels, hind frogs. Bars were touching ground in most cases. Trimmed bars just enough to be passive. 2005.Nov.12 Rolled all edges. Soles bearing weight now on front. 2005.Nov.06 Trimmed Hind: Mostly rolled the edges more. 2005.Nov.03 2005.Oct.18 Hind bars getting too long. Trimmed Hind frogs and bars. Trimmed Front heels and bars. 2005.Oct.11 Trimmed Hind frogs and flares, but otherwise looking ok. Unwilling to touch bars yet as she is finally 95% sound. 2005.Sep.15 Finally feeling better, bars are growing out. Have lowered heels a little, increased the rocking of toes, and trimmed frog sides. Happy to see no white line separation in the toes. Only the sides yet to grow out. 2005.Aug.17 This last trim was not good for Glamour. She was very ouchy, so I may now conclude I should not remove her bars this much. 2005.Aug.15 untrimmed status 2005.Jun.18-19 2005.Jun.15 2005.Jun.14 2005.Jun.13 2005.Apr.04 2005.Mar.25 2005.Mar.17 2005.Feb.10 2005.Feb.08 2004.Apr.18

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Hoof and Health Links

A good book: Making Natural Hoof Care Work for You, by Pete Ramey
ISBN# 0-9658007-7-6
Pete Ramey is an experienced natural hoof care practitioner, and is one of the first professionals to change his former shoeing practice into natural hoof care.

Postures of Pain - How to tell if your horse's feet hurt

Why Shoeing is a Bad Idea

What a Healthy Hoof looks like

BarefootHorseCare at Yahoo Groups

Study done on the hoof patterns of wild horse's feet

Hoof Angles

Hoof Rehabilitation Specialist

Resources for the barefoot horse; case studies and examples of many different feet in the process of being trimmed.

Excerpts from the barefoothorsecare message board:
Message# 42534 - Leverage forces - Adam's graphic of the forces on toe
Message# 63798 - Where to begin vertical cut for toe flare - Walt's graphic for trimming flares

The Bitless Bridle - what is wrong with a metal bit?

Blame alfalfa for sickness in Insulin Resistant horses

Alfalfa,like all legumes, naturally contains thyroid compromising elements, that could have been accommodated better in decades gone by than today. The thyroid takes the biggest hit from environmental chemicals than any other tissue or organ in the body. Nearly a century ago, legumes were named "goitrogens".

and Alsike Clover Toxicity in Horses and why the liver-damaged horse has a problem

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Other Corral pages:

• SOUNDS on page 4 Now 33 WAV files
  
• Scenic Willapa Valley. Personal photo album on page 5
  7 hi-res photos and 2 triple width panoramic photos.
• Republic Scenery Photo Album on page 7
  11 hi-res and 1 quintuple width panoramic photos.
• Cowgirl hoof trimming photos on page 15
  

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Updated 2008.Aug.12

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