Highspeed shod touchdown - ouch

This hurts .... believe it or not!

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[KyleeBIRD]

im sure it would still be somewhat un comfortable for a barefoot horse to be trotting on pavement like that.. its not good for them, just like its not good for people to run on pavement all the time.. im just saying i would never trot my horses on pavement wether they are barefoot or not..

[ShannyPants2]

This just goes to show that shoes are painful for the horse and they don't "proctect" like they are supposedly for. Very cool, and I love all your vids! Ecpescially the barefoot tochdown, compared to the shod touchdown. Keep it up!

[eahoward01]

Why would anyone trot a horse on pavement? I'm not for or against shoes but it was my understanding that shoes help to prevent the natural hoof from wearing down. So if you were to ride your horse 50 to 100 miles per week without hoof protection, you might not have alot of hoof left.

[upferret]

@KyleeBIRD this isnt true!

[hoofrise]

@KyleeBIRD A barefoot horse is fine to trot on pavement. They will let you know when they have had enough. A shod horse will suffer damage, however, riding on pavement. I can trot my barefoot mare for hours on pavement without even a hint of bruising. I am only able o do this because she has very specific, correct trim.

[doggcat88]

When shoes are put on and the nails are well .. nailed into the horse's hooves, the nails weaken the hoof wall, that's the number one reason why horses go lame. Also, why most of the horses I own are barefoot, they don't know what is under them, and they have done perfectly fine without shoes when they were still roaming freely, pity how people ruin a horse by thinking shoes are for the best.

[HorsePsycho]

I don't think walking, or trotting, on pavement would hurt the horse, their hooves are built to stand that sort of stuff. Plus, it's only a split second feeling, i don't think the horse would care too much about how much his feet hurt, more about watching where he's going and keeping control with his legs

[ShadowedWings]

Shoes have their place. It's true they restrict heel expansion, which can limit the pumping of blood back up the leg; that improper shoeing will lead to contracted heels; that they compromise hoof wall integrity--but they can also be utilized for therapeutic and corrective ends.

Now, this horse's extremely short pasterns aren't going to help absorbing any shock at all, and the hoof's not hitting the ground all at once as it's supposed to, either. I'd say this video is fairly misleading.

[horsexaddiict]

actually riding on pavement like once a week is good because it increases the circulation in a horse's hoof.

but that's without shoes, because shoe's don't let the blood circulate in the hoof, it doesn't absorb the shock.

[heronponie]

It's similar to a human jogging on pavement. The bare hoof is designed to absorb and actually benefit from shock. The harder the foot works, the healthier it is. (Unfortunately, the reverse is often true of shod hooves...)

I wouldn't expect you to go jogging your horse down paved roads every day just because you saw it online- that would be pretty silly! All I'm saying is that it wouldn't be a problem for a barefoot horse, whereas it is clearly quite concussive for this horse.

[heronponie]

It's no problem for a barefoot horse.