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PureHeart Barefoot Trimming

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24.01.2022 Pony trim HARRY I started trimming Harry in 2015. He had been running alone in a paddock of grass in the Wimmera Mallee area on a farm. Occassionally ridden by his young owner. His owner outgrew him in size and age and he sat for some time loafing. Then he was passed onto another young rider within the same family where he was put onto a better diet and was ridden again til they ran out of riders for him. He returned to the paddock lifestyle again. Recently he was purchased b...y a new family and he is on a fairly low sugar diet now and lightly ridden by a young girl. His feet are looking the best they have been. Harry hasn't had regular hoof trims over the years, ranging between 5 weeks to months between trims but they are looking better than when I first started. He is moving well and happy. Disclaimer: trims aren't regular Privacy: Please do not copy my photos and post on other pages. Thank you. See more

22.01.2022 Im a Fully Qualified Barefoot Trimmer and studied and achieved the Diploma of Podiotheraphy from the Australian College of Equine Podiotherapy. My Rates are: $50 per trim for first horse. $40 per horse when there is more than one. Boot measuring and fitting available... Group discounts available Rehabilitation of lameness issues I travel to most areas of the Wimmera Mallee area, Victoria but will charge a little more per trim for long distance places. I care for your horse like its one of my own. See more

22.01.2022 A mare i have trimmed 3 times (i think) Very under run hooves with long toes and flare. Dinner plate feet. Still a long way to go. Very lame when I started with her. and intermittently lame. Owner captured this today......

21.01.2022 Thoroughbred mare who started on the road in rehabilitation January 2013. She has worn shoes all her life because she was always sore out of them. She was sent to stud last season and needed shoes removed. I started trimming her in January. The horse I met was very proppy when walking. Her feet were out of shape, collapsed walls, extremely thin soles, thin digital cushion and weak frog. I could move her frog and sole with my fingers. She has been trimmed every 5 -6 weeks sin...ce january. The latest photos are in August. Her walls are healthier and shiny, Her sole is getting thicker but we can still see her pedal bone through the thinness of her sole. She is still proppy after her trims but on the way to a more functional foot. She is off to foal down next month so I wish her all the best and will continue her rehab when she returns with her bubba See more

21.01.2022 Horse Q - Neglected hooves

20.01.2022 My first taste of hoof

20.01.2022 Quality....... is like buying oats. If you want nice clean, fresh oats you must pay a fair price. However, if you can be satisfied with oats that have already been through the horse.......that comes a little cheaper

19.01.2022 This horse a tb was given to me in 2013 due to his feet being problematic , abscesses and lameness was constant . His radiographs showed some pedal bone rotation and bone loss . Most farriers answers were to shoe him and he has gotten thru his life like this until his owner gave up. It is hard to keep up with these horses financially and emotionally. I'm pleased with his progress and at the moment he is able to be ridden. His heels aren't as contracted and more plump, frog has improved and the lines in his walls have gone. His fetlock is in better alignment

17.01.2022 I talk about this all the time

16.01.2022 Anyone want to buy a horse

13.01.2022 Jumping Fences When a farrier succeeds with rehabilitation it is because of competent trimming and carenot because of the shoe. In fact, it is the shoe itself... that often stands in the way of what would have otherwise been a successful rehabilitation. It is a fact though, that the immediate relief of pain that a shoe can provide is soothing to horse owners and I worry that a ‘dual’ professional will be too quick to shoe a horse to put an owner's mind at ease and miss out on the healing opportunity. -Pete Ramey Nowadays, with the wide range of booting possibilities available, it has become much easier to rehabilitate horses and prevent lameness in the first place. Martin Deacon FWCF, in his book No Foot No Horse says the following: and still the horse is putting up with the same old type of shoe that he has been putting up with for hundreds of years. Perhaps we should start thinking about ’Nike Airs’ for horses. Personally, I like EasyCare Clouds for most rehab situations. Once the horse has developed enough live sole to create a dome and the heels and bulbs are strong enough to support the majority of the horse's weight I use EasyCare Back Country Gloves for most performance and prevention situations. For longer durations of extreme performance on hard or uneven terrain I use EasyShoe Performance. They have a thick rubber tread which can offer good protection...even for a horse with a 5/8" dome of sole and fully developed bulbs. This is not just to protect the foot, but for the joints, et cetera. This is about as close as you can get to high performance feet in ‘Nike Airs'. I had a great weekend in Las Vegas teaching a group of horse owners, and a couple of trimmers, how to develop truly functional feet. They were putting a little pressure on me to just keep coming back to trim their horses ( I am going back on Nov 4th ). On the second day one of the participants noticed a farrier at the barn next door listening in. She went over and told him to just jump the fence and come over. He finished the horse he was working on and ended up literally jumping the fence and introducing himself. This was right after I had finished assessing a 14 yr old shod horse that the owner said was starting to refuse jumps. The owner wanted to pull her shoes and was asking for a timeline for when she could be jumping again. While introducing himself, the farrier stated that he always liked an opportunity to learn something new, and after he had a chance to catch up on our conversation he had no problem agreeing that bare feet were better for horses than shoes. We also agreed that just pulling a horse out of shoes without knowing how to, or being willing to, rehab their feet was cruel. The owner wanted me to pull the shoes and get the bare foot ball rolling, but she was not interested in the rehab process. She just wanted something done so she could jump again. I explained to her that it would be irresponsible for me to just pull the shoes and fly back home...especially if she was not at all concerned about rehab protocol. After being held together by steel, the mares feet would expand too quickly and she'd likely be sore. The right way to do it would be to board the mare on sand until it was time to pull shoes ( in order to get the frog used to supporting it's share of the horses weight ) and then pull the shoes. Then I explained that I'd have to be on call for frequent ( careful ) adjustments while the horse was transitioning. I recommended getting some EasyCare Clouds for rough patches...Gloves for after the feet stabilized, and EasyShoes when she was ready for increased performance. I explained the importance of frequent proper trimming for continual development, then I turned to the farrier and asked him if he agreed with me. He said, and I quote, "yep." I looked around at the participants and auditors and said, "here's your man." After watching me trim a few more horses and giving out his number to everyone, he asked if he could call me later and we all agreed to set up a trimming support program where he kept the horses on a tight schedule and I come back periodically for trouble shooting. He probably gained 10 new horses on 3 week trims with responsible committed owners just because he was still willing to jump a fence and listen to some new information. Photo credit: Paige Marie Donaghue Something worth photographing credit: her mare, Lucy.

09.01.2022 Under run, log toe, weak walls. Started in sept 2012 and latest photos are May 2013. Still ongoing

07.01.2022 Hoof injury photos

06.01.2022 Love it when you are rehabbing a horse and you can see the new growth growing in tighter than the old. 25 yo pony. This is before the Third trim and after

06.01.2022 MY PONY IS ONLY JUST FOUNDERED is a comment I hear all the time. Or I’ve changed the diet why aren’t they getting better, when you haven’t changed it at all or enough. Well this week I took my horse Shanae to the vets because of her constant battles with founder. Something I should have done a couple of years ago but due to funds I didn’t. She is 13 years old. So Monday she had blood tests to test for Cushings and insulin resistance and I suspected she had insulin resista...nce due to the battles with founder and the fatty lumps on her body. Her hooves have always been prone to be low in the heels and long in the toe. With a lamella wedge. The last 12 months I have been working in reestablishing her heels and bringing back toe but I have been flying blind as I do in my work everyday with foundered/laminitis horses. Only going on the outside pathologies and landmarks . So today she was xrayed and I got results of all the tests. She is kept off the grass all winter and spring every year , only getting to graze in summer. She has been put into the lowest sugar diet I could come up with and some teff hay with some lucerne thrown in every now and then. So her results were quite shocking Normal Insulin levels in horses are 30 , shanaes levels are 300. Normal levels for Cushings are under 70. Hers was 70. So she has IR and being now treated for Cushings and will be in the meds for the rest of her life at $180 every 60 days. STILL THINK ITS ONLY A LITTLE FOUNDER - I need to change your views on it So we come to her X-rays Pedal bone loss. No connection between her wall and pedal bone Saving grace is she has plenty of sole. So a long road ahead to try to get her hooves well again. Shanae doesn’t have grazing on grass but used to. Like lots of horses I know that are on diets of grass she was fine for many years. But the damage just slowly happens over time. Sneaking up to owners. Til the damage gets to the point of break down. My fault as before I become a hoof trimmer I thought like everyone else. Before the internet and all the information available at our fingertips I didn’t know how much damage is caused by grazing a horse on grass. I would get her sound again with trimming and diet but then she would crash and go backwards . We all need to become more proactive , more responsible for our horses diets. I have a long and expensive rehab to do with Shanae plus the medication. Please listen to your trimmer , farrier or vet when they are concerned with your horses diet and the state of their feet. Change your horses diet when it is a concern or there are signs of problems happening. In fact change it before there is a problem. It’s not fair on our horses to go thru so much pain. The best you can do is never have a horse with laminitis. See more

06.01.2022 How to trim a miniature horse! Here's to the farriers all over the world!

05.01.2022 I saved this pony from laminitis and sold him to a wonderful new home

05.01.2022 23 yo pony with laminitis. I tried to start her off on 5 week trims but due to pony club landing near those weeks sometimes it would stretch out to 8 weeks . Lately we have been doing 5 weeks apart. She was uncomfortable when I started trimming her which is why owner would stretch out the weeks around pony club but now she is comfortable so we are able to maintain the trims 5 weeks apart

02.01.2022 One of the horses I trim. He's a champion

02.01.2022 PureHeart Barefoot trimming - Unfortunately due to increasing costs I have to implement some price rises and changes for 2014. This is also due to the rise in gas fuel prices from 79 cents per litre to 98 to $1.02 in some areas. As everyone can imagine, I travel long distances due to everyone being spread out over a large area and some days travel up 400 kms. NEW PRICES ARE: TRIMS DONE EVERY 4 TO 6 WEEKS: $50 per trim per single horse...Continue reading

02.01.2022 Notes From Dr. Bowker Clinic September 9-10, 2017 Author: David Jones Warning, this is a bit long. First, I am not Dr. Bowker, nor can I express his research i...n any way comparable. Here I’ll just try to sum up two days of intense learning. For those not familiar with Dr. Bowker, he is: The Equine Foot Laboratory, led by Robert Bowker, VMD, PhD, is charting the adaptive mechanisms of the equine foot. For more than ten years, Bowker’s research and clinical work has focused on the physiological function of the equine foot. The research has resulted in new recommendations that are leading to relief from navicular syndrome and other chronic foot ailments in the horse. (from the Michigan State University website). One of the first findings of Dr. Bowker’s research in the early 1990s was of the feral horse hoof model. Rather than one wild hoof model he found multiple models from around the world which were shaped depending on environment. Horses in a dry desert environment had compact smooth hooves worn by the desert terrainthe typical American mustang hoof. Horses in a softer wet environment had longer hoof walls that broke off in chunks. Even some horses living in soft sand had quite a long toe. The one thing they all had in common was that they all had ground contact with a sole and frog that was the main support structure for the horse. Dr. Bowker called the hoof wall the horse’s fingernail used more for protection than weight bearing. Dr. Bowker’s research goes deeper than anyone in the industry and is more extensive. His findings have literally turned the hoof care world in a different direction, at least for people who have listened to what he says. Anyone who has read my stories will notice a similarity of opinion. Dr. Bowker believes the back half of the hoof is the most important, with the frog being THE most important in a healthy hoof. Actually, Dr. Bowker would like to see 60% of the hoof as the rear portion down from the cam of P2 rather than the 50/50 goal and much more than the typical 60/40 front to back seen in long toed horses. Bowker considers long toes to be the worst thing that could happen to a hoof causing navicular and also laminitis. Dr. Bowker considers that the proper function of the frog is crucial to hoof health. Opposite to the common concept that the frog pumps blood around the hoof and back up the leg, Dr. Bowker has found that the expansion of the frog and its network of ligaments causes a negative pressure in the hoof that draws blood pressurized from the heart into and around the hoof. Full frog pressure is also considered detrimental to hoof health because constant pressure inhibits this negative pressure from occurring. His trimming protocol in a nutshell is to keep the toes short and have the frog kiss the ground. The other major cause of hoof problems that Dr. Bowker has found through countless hoof dissections is peripheral loading of the hoof. This is when the hoof wall is supporting the entire hoof and the sole and frog are suspended. This could be caused by horseshoes or long hoof wallsanything that keeps the sole elevated and the laminae stressed. Dr. Bowker considers the hoof wall to be similar to a human nail and not designed to be weight bearing, but rather protective. This peripheral loading of a hoof wall results in an up-and-down movement that causes a wiper effect on the coffin bone that causes bone loss on the upper surface of this bone. Bone loss obviously weakens the coffin bone and can cause the front to remodel into a slipper appearance and potentially break. A hoof that is solar loaded has denser bone. Dr. Bowker’s extensive studies of vibration in the hoof echo some other studies and go contrary to some products some people may not want to hear. Vibrating plates for horse to stand on are generally around 400 hertz of frequency. Fifteen seconds of vibration at 400 hertz can cause blood vessel constriction in the hoof for up to three days. Horseshoes typically vibrate between 2.500 to 3.000 hertz. Not measured is what using a power tool like a disc grinder would do. The majority of Dr. Bowker’s research involves navicular disease which he considers much more prevalent than diagnosed. He says navicular damage occurs much earlier than the symptoms appear and much earlier than when radiographs show actual damage. The rear of the coffin bone is also subject to damage when the navicular bone is deteriorated through bone loss and loss of circulation. He attributes most of that effect to long toes. Long toes increase breakover stress and makes the navicular weight-bearing and causes stress between P3, the navicular and P2. Ligaments such as the Impar ligament that goes between the navicular and the coffin bone can change to protect against stress. Collagen can change to cartilage, then to calcified cartilage, and then to bone. Bone on bone is very painful. Dr. Bowkers study of young horses from pre-birth (stillborn) to age 3 has shown that the internal hoof structures didn’t fail to develop, but can deteriorate by age 3, particularly in race horses which he has studied extensively. The ligament structures inside the hoof are not just the obvious ones, like the flexors and extensors, but the tissues also develop into a spider web of supporting structures that totally suspend and support the internal bones. These ligaments are filled with blood vessels as small as 4.5 microns in diameter surrounded by smooth muscle so they are not just capilaries. With long toes or peripheral loading these supporting ligaments lose their elasticity and become more like fatty tissue that have no blood vessels and that does not support or absorb shock. The resulting impact causes lack of circulation vessels and bone loss. Dr. Bowker’s study of the laminae beneath the hoof wall have shown that the hoof wall doesn’t just grow from the top, but is grown and built up thicker from the inside via the laminae that creates tubules which become hoof wall nearly the whole way to the ground. The concept of a hoof wall being dead tissue below the coronary is not at all factual. It is living tissue and can be damaged. Using a torch to dry out the dorsal hoof wall for practices such as glue-on boots can cause damage to the entire hoof wall and laminae causing the hoof wall to remain thin, dry and brittle at ground level. Hoof flares are thicker hoof wall and reflect a flared coffin bone. If a flare is removed on the hoof wall and it grows back quickly, it is a flare in the coffin bone and reflects a hoof imbalance. The current belief that a new hoof is regrown every year is true only for the hoof wall. There is much, much more going on beneath that hoof wall. The internal structures, bones, ligaments, blood vessels and tissues are much more complicated and, even though the hoof wall is new, the internal parts can either remain the same, can improve or can become worse. One important thing I learned from Dr. Bowker was the importance and effect of fascia inside the hoof and all connective structures including up the leg. An integral part of the structure and movement of the hoof, fascia can have a supportive effect or can inhibit and restrict movement and rehab. Fascia inside the hoof signals to the horse that the hoof will be landing before the hoof hits the ground. Here’s one for ya...the central sulcus of the frog contains a scent gland used by horses, particularly stallions in the wild, to mark territory and the lay down trails. The frog and digital cushion consist of myxoid tissue. Myxoid tissue exists in several places in the hoof and is much like stem cells and can become ligaments, cartilage, fibrous tissue or fatty tissue depending on hoof conformation and movement. One thing Dr. Bowker stressed is that most research on the equine hoof, indeed, most anatomical research, has been done on horses from slaughterhouses. Many of the findings have been on hooves that are already damaged and deteriorated. For instance, some researchers say there are no blood vessels in the frog, but Dr. Bowker’s microscopic studies have shown a bazillion of tiny blood vessels as small as 4.5 microns which the others didn’t see. The digital cushion in a healthy hoof is filled with a network of ligaments and the lateral cartilages are nearly 1 thick. In comparison, a deteriorated hoof has fatty tissue where ligaments normally are and the lateral cartilages are less than inch thick. What many consider normal are actually deteriorated. Many of these changes happen before the obvious symptoms of navicular syndrome appear and before observable radiograph changes. The good news Dr. Bowker found is that with proper trimming the deterioration can be reversed. I was surprised to hear that the hoof can actually lay down new layers of bone and the fatty tissues can once again actually become ligament tissues. Minute blood vessels that deteriorated can be regrown. This is great news to me that a hoof can actually be rehabbed and that navicular deterioration and coffin bone thinning can be reversed. Of course, as you may expect, Dr. Bowker’s research has been ignored, criticized and ridiculed. Some other researchers have even suggested that the frog is a vestigial organ, no longer of any use, whereas Dr. Bowker regards the frog as the most important part of the hoof. Much of Dr. Bowker’s ideas are obviously not currently mainstream, but he has countless microscopic slides from countless autopsies that back up everything he says. This is the cutting edge of hoof knowledge. Indeed, some of the points he brought up in the lectures were from research he discovered only weeks before this clinic so his research continues to accelerate. This article is a poor representation of all the research Dr. Bowker has done and I believe that this knowledge is invaluable for any hoof care person and hopefully, this and further knowledge will spread. Contact me for more discussion or leave comments for all to discuss. See more