HORSES BAREFOOT equine locomotion Biomechanic

This report is indeed amazing. The life expectancy of shoed horse is half that an unshoed horse ! Four hooves, four main reasons to let them free. The horse is the only animal into which men knock nails into !!!!

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I believe that barefoot horses PROPERLY TRIMMED can do everything a shoed horse can, if not more. Just look at those beautiul hooves, so healthy! So functional! Those must be some happy horses. :) But remember: You must use a special technique to trim a bareoot horse, bareoot hooves need as much care as shoed hooves.

[everythingshiny]

@AmericanPitbulls1 I ride an unshod horse and he is not comfortable on some surfaces. Most wild horses are unsound, and they don't jump "very high every single day" - they only jump when they can't go around something. And the life expectancy of a wild horse is significantly lower than a domesticated horse.

[AmericanPitbulls1]

@everythingshiny I have seen many horse riders who care nothing for the horse they ride and how can you say a unshod horse cannot jump or walk on all terrain what about all the horses that are wild the very horses that brung all horses unto the world they walk on mountains, dirt, logs, water everything and JUMP very high every single day. Not to mention live very very long HAPPY lives.

[everythingshiny]

Those hooves that are being shown at the end of the video are NOT typical of shod horses. In all cases those horses are the victims of GROSS NEGLECT AND MISTREATMENT, not consistent with the majority of shod horses.

[everythingshiny]

If shoeing is so bad for horses, why do all the professional and top level riders shoe their horses? Why aren't their horses therefore all lame? This video all looks very nice but I have seen a lot of barefoot horses with very sore feet. I know a professional showjumper who shoes all of her own horses, one of her main resons for doing so being so she can put studs into their shoes as 99% of the time we jump off grass, and jumping 5ft plus fences without studs is unfair on the horse.

[FirstClassSkeptic]

If you average in all the horses that get founder, and are shot. And all the horses that go lame, and are sent to the slaughter house. Then you might find that the average life expectancy for a shod horse is half that of an unshod horse.

[spatzhappy]

whether or not they live longer, how can anyone deny the ability of these horses in that terrain to move without difficulity!! maybe living longer means no mechanical founder from shoeing problems and having your horse have to be put down???

I certainly don't own a shod horse that can go that easily in that kind of terrain, and I used to endurance race!!! Wow this is self evident that these are healthy horses

[horsegent1]

Blimey who'd have believed it!

I've got both shod and unshod horses both aged 26. Both still ridden. I wasn't appreciating that the unshod one would live till it was in it's 60's.

But then you are making totally false claims.

[mattyDlotus]

Are any of the claims such as life expectancy actually proven? And will all shod feet end up like the ones at the end of the video?

[blkgryphon]

I am a huge barefoot advocate; I research and write about horse health for a living and promote barefoot whenever I can. However, I have never seen any data on life expectancy relating to horses being shod or unshod. I do agree that barefoot horses generally have fewer lameness issues, but I've known some healthy old horses that had been shod all their lives. Also, many of the "horror" photos they showed were extreme laminitic hooves -- a problem that can strike shod and barefoot horses alike.