Hoofwall Anatomy Part 1, Lessons from the Hoof

[katiclimber]

I am extremely impressed, most people i come across i don't believe a word they say, everything you said here makes perfect sense! this is exactly the problem my horse has yet 2 barefoot trimmers in the uk and spain just said he'd got nice feet . do you have a website or email so i could get in touch with you? also who did you train with? i want to be able to do my own horse properly but want to train with someone who knows what they're talking about! thanks so much!!!

[chelackie]

Oh this is fabulous ,it explains so much I didn't understand !Thankyou for taking so much time sharing your knowledge and for talking plain and clearly !

[BarrelRacer955]

What should i do about my horses hooves. On the front feet close to the toes his soul groes really quickly and creates a little ridge on his soul near his toes. Should i use a hoof knife and clean that out or what??

[thehappyhoof]

@BarrelRacer955 That is what they call toe callous. Just make sure the toe is level by rasping it. You don't have to take that off, it's there protecitng the toe. Just make sure it's balanced and level when you sight down the hoof. It's actually a very good thing, if you keep it balanced and level, so that one side does not start getting higher etc. It's there protecting the tip or toe of the coffin bone underneith.

[BarrelRacer955]

@thehappyhoof Ok thanks :)

[mtmom77]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge

[Critterlover17]

What do you think of a horse that just doesn't really grow bar? Neither of my horses do. Is it just their environment? Their bars are like an inch long and crumbly. I just swipe them with the hoof knife to get the crumbly stuff which brings it down the sole really. Good thing, bad thing?

[thehappyhoof]

I have several horses I do that don't grow much bar, and I really don't know what to think of it. My colts got crumbly like that for a while and then got better, but it was really wet for a long time. Then you have those that have way too much bar I have some of them too.

[buddymacs]

any excessive growth on the bottom of the hoof hoof will cause some kind of distortion to the hoof.....long untrimmed bars cause flairing in that pressure area...the horse walks on this bar and the result is a flair..put a rock in your show and walk 60 miles....your shoes will be ruined by the abnormal presure from your foot in the shoe capsule....the horse bears weight on this overgrown bar.and the flair is the result.

[LaRanaTJ]

Hey I´m from the east and think your vids are informative, interesting and on the button. Yes, your accent (like any accent one is not accustomed to) takes a while to get my ear round! But hey, could be Brum or Spanish mountain dialect - impossible to understand !!!

[SPritDncr]

If you are teaching someone in an hour setting, or 1/2 hour setting or with an soft swallowing your words kind of speech,,you might lose them or bore them. One thing for sure on these videos, I am not lost, bored or going to the next one without pickup up the messages from last one. Keep up the Good Ole' Cowgirl Lessons..One who learns from the Horse...then shares the lessons w/ those of us who are just getting around to finding out what the questions to ask them are on hoof trimmimg.

[thehappyhoof]

Well, that was just the nicest thing to say, and thankyou for recognizing it's "cowgirl" lessons. We just talk plain ol talk, and I get a raft from that, from some of my eastern counterparts. I'm really glad that what I'm learning is also helping others, just being able to share like this has also helped me learn and grow a lot. Camera don't lie, and i'm my own worst critic. Best of all, I think that some others I help, will trun around learn more than me, and throw some back my way.

[EclypseSportHorses]

I like that you are addressing one of the largest problems (or at least most commonly seen) in horses, but you keep repeating yourself instead of progessing in your training~ In order to teach someone you will have to not lose them.

[chevy6780]

Love ur videos...But where are the trimming videos (from the top)? I really wanted to watch them again!

[thehappyhoof]

I took them off because after learning a bunch of more things, I came to realize that the method in rasping down the walls like that was SERRIOUSLY FLAWED, and I did not want to lead anyone else into the same error I had been led into.

[thehappyhoof]

What I show about hoof wall anatomy here is what I learned that eventually led to a light coming on in my head, and led me to totally quit rasping down any hoof walls even for a flare. All I do now is a good mustang roll or bevel, leaving the main strength of the hardest part of the hoof wall intack.

[thehappyhoof]

Rasping down the walls is a tradition that was carried over into natural hoof care by individuals who were farriers before they became barefoot trimmers. They teach farriers to rasp down the walls like that after they put the shoe on and it's called dressing up the hoof. It probably started back in the 18th century or before, for fancy carriage horses. People wanted their horses feet to look pretty, not realizing (and they would not have cared anyway) that they were weakening the hooves.

[threemustangs]

You have done an AWESOME job with these videos!

They are my new favorites! Thank you very much!

[happycampersMT]

Hey El - don't let the clowns bring you down. I truly appreciate your tutelage! Keep up the good work!

[hoofforeeya]

Cute but you might consider writing a script to help you have a more informative video.

[thehappyhoof]

I'm going to leave this comment here, as an example of a typical snotty jealous broad. You gals come on here and do you trimming videos and think your some kind of queens, and get jealous of anything someone else dose. You can unsubscribe anytime.

[thehappyhoof]

Maybe I shouldn't be, but I'm still ticked off at this comment. You know I try to be helpful, respectful and nice to EVERYONE, and this gal wrote me a while back and asked me how to make movies and add music et. to her videos.

[thehappyhoof]

So I tried to help her and told her how to do it. She wrote me and said: "made my first movie thanks to you!:)

Its the Foxhunter! I don't how to upload video but thanks to you I made a movie out of some old photos.

Thank you

Sandy

Then she has to cheep shot me like this. Yea this stuff agrivates me in people.