After a recent discussion about my horse's feet and the stark realisation that traditional farriery and new trimming methods seem to be poles apart, I've started to look into K C La Pierre's method of barefoot trimming. This is the guy that my trimmer trained with.
I've borrowed his DVD set - The Chosen Road , so we'll see where it takes me.
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IMHO if the farrier knows his stuff, it shouldn't be miles apart at all....
any farrier properly trained should be able to trim for work, rather than for loitering about the field...just some of them don't, unfortunately...
Well, what is funny about the differance I have seen now..having had 2 barefoot trimmers ,1 shoer,1 farrier. The shoer and farrier left my mare kinda flared...did not roll the toes for a nice turnover.
The barefoot trimmers...take her feet smaller and round that toe.They also leave some nice heal.
I do think that when one is trained for having a place for the shoe to be placed...they think that way for even tims on the horses...at least they did with mine...I had to go in after them and trim a week later. ON time, after a shoer trimmed her, she was so lame. He took so much heal off, and knifed off her nice sole calus!
unless I am putting my "Easy Walkers Horseshoes" on, I'm sticking to a barefoot trimmer or myself!
I'm finding it's a complicated subject, but the more I learn about the function of the foot, the more I realise that shoes limit this function drastically, often with serious consequences. Also (and I'm generalising here as some farriers keep up to speed with new research) the way a farrier trims and measures the angles and balance of the foot is very different to the way a barefoot trimmer does.
I would say (in my limited experience) a farrier trim is different to a 'barefoot', I know it works because the pony and Moo have improved beyond measure with Gareth's advice and trimming...let me know what you find Di.
ps what day are you coming over?
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