Baby Horses - How Farriers Ruin The Babies Through Misinformation
A client of mine raised a baby that was born with a leg so short it wouldn't touch the ground, didn't even come close. Today you would never know such was the case, the horse walks and runs without so much as a limp.
Often babies are born with either pigeon toes or toed out conditions where the feet are not pointing straight ahead. The problem arises when Farriers come along and exercise what was taught them in the schools and textbooks by the Industry Standards how to fix these conditions. The schools and textbooks teach Farriers to shorten one side of the baby's foot to correct these conditions. This is a poor idea. This is misinformation at its height, and it ruins horses.
Given time as a baby's chest fills with muscle development often the feet will point more outward where they should, things self correct. The big error of the industry is trimming baby's feet to force them into the right direction. This forces bone development that is not desirable and will render the horse less than optimal as an adult and prone to blown joints tendons and ligaments. By forcing twist into the bones and joints and developing bone growth while in these twisted positions in essence you are ruining the horse.
Proper joint movement is not accomplished by the above practices. Shortening one side of the foot as taught by Farrier schools and textbooks is what ruins horses. Once the baby's bones have been forced to grow in this manner you're stuck with a ruined horse. The joints will never line up correctly and your horse will be forever at serious risk.
Just keep in mind, if you force bone growth based on an external visual concepts there's no going back, whereas if you just let the baby grow out naturally at least his or her joints will not be twisted and developed into this twisted condition but you will still be able to address any misalignments through proper shoeing. There are really no alternatives.
The only problem left to talk about here is the correct shoeing. You won't find the right answers in textbooks or at the Farrier schools. It's just not taught. If it were taught there the textbooks and schools wouldn't be teaching how to ruin horses and babies in the first place by the faulty practices explained above. So to get this done right and do what's right for your horse the only place I know of where to direct you to the proper information and how to safeguard yourself from disaster is by going to the website stated below in the author bio .
This method has a 100% track record - not one single lame horse in 16 years. Approved by veterinarians.
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Author Bio: John Silveira. San Mateo native and resident, shoeing horses for 16 years in the greater Bay Area. Discovering a method of shoeing not taught in the Industry Farrier schools or textbooks. http://Care4Horses.com http://Farrieritis.Care4Horses.com
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