Barefoot Natural Trimming 2, Understanding the Hoof in Order to Trim Properly

You must understand the inner foot in relationship to the outer hoof capsil. Knowing and understanding anatomy and hoof growth and learning to recognize the different distortions, in order to know how to do corrective and maintenance trimming.

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Pets & Animals

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• hooves
• farrier
• barefoot trimming
• natural hoofcare
• equine
• dressage
• barrel racing

[chelackie]

Going back to yesterday's comment ,I think this is the triangle you refer to ? No he doesn't have this .His outside walls at the quarters grow slightly inwards towards the ground but his heels are low and coronary bands are ok.He does have separation since that bad wall trim ... that's why I am doing it myself again ,bad back and all.

[thehappyhoof]

@chelackie Just sent you a message. I understand what you are saying now. So is he just that way on both sides or just one side? Is it like they are slightly dished in on the walls at the quarters?

[thehappyhoof]

@chelackie Oh dah...you said OUTSIDE quarters. Well then maybe the INSIDE bar is jammed up into the foot pulling the outside wall over. Would have to see pics, of sides of foot and sole etc. to be able to tell what "might" be going on.

[thehappyhoof]

Comment as much as you want, that's the way we sort things out, verbalize, understand and learn, and then I learn from what you say how to say it better. You said it just right and that's what happened. And I think it happens more than we think to varying degrees. Isn't it just a say terrible and unnecessry thing. As far as I know stupid unformally educated me, is the first one to figgre this out, and that's even more pathetic when you really think about it. Think it goes on more than we know.

[mselveehead]

To my understanding either scenario would displace the internal hoof structure by pushing up the back of the foot inside the hoof capsul thereby pivoting the front downward and creating a laminar wedge, right?

And how can you look at a hoof on a live horse and know what is impacted bars/coronary jamming, and what is just a long heel, without obviously dissecting the foot, since you can't do that to a live horse?

Sorry I hope these questions/comments make sense!

[thehappyhoof]

@mselveehead I'm starting to see signs in the outer capsil that would tell you this is happening. Life a strange triangle shaped piece of hoof growth in the wall at the back of the heels. I just did a horse a few days ago that had this starting about an inch of growth in the wall, and bars laid over. And now I realize I've been seeing this triangle for years to one degree or another on horses.

[mselveehead]

Sorry for all of the comments! I watched the end of the video (probably best to do that before commenting, right? ha ha) and anyway I see that it was that the bars impacted and lifted up the heel which then pivoted the toe down and back inside the capsul, and then the hoof wall appeared jammed up because the foot created that extra hoof wall since the heel was getting longer and longer because of what was happening inside....... right?

[mselveehead]

So is it that the hoof wall jammed up when the hoof grew on an improperly trimmed foot without proper bevels because it had to grow somewhere and if it can't grow down it ends up growing up OR

Is it that the bars impacted and lifted up the back of the internal hoof structure inside the hoof?