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OMG. Bill you keep this up and we will have sound horses all up and down the west coast wearing fugly shoes.my hats off to you for taking the time to teach .

Im thinking Ill call you today . and ive been looking at forges since 5 am

NOOOO I do not want to join the Psycho Barefoot cult lol

THANK GOD!!!!

thank you; thank you; thank you

Barefoot or not ?.

Read an intersting statement in a magazine,

...A horse is only as good as it's feet, the better the feet thus the better the horse!. In increasing the foot's mass, one also increases the sole's thickness and thus the horse's comfort. Dr d'Arpe found that a sole that was less than 17.5mm thick was always associated with osseous rearrangement of the coffin bone.

(Dr Lorenzo D'Arpe - Blood Flow in the Equine foot, AVEF Convention, Reims, France, pg 54, Farriers Journal no 159)

Hence why shoes come in very handy when soles are abraded in environments, thin soled horses etc. Save the coffin bone right?.

P Falvey CF