That's the idea. I think there are a lot of horses out there that feel worse after and as such don't want people touching their feet. I think it only gets easier as time goes on if there are a series of good trims where they come away from it feeling better.
He stands still for you like a champ, amazing after such a short time with him. Love him! And his feet look really good for being unkept until now. Really says alot for no metal horse shoes viewpoint. Love that.! Thanks for your time and very informative videos, awesome as always.
Very informative and how cooperative, good, he is👍 his fetlocks are so hairy ! He seems to have solid hooves used by running on hard grounds. Thank you Graeme 🐎
What a good boy. I’m sure glad you’re the expert on hooves. I swear I couldn’t see what needed attention until you pointed it out. (“Good boy”referred to the horse). 😁
Very nice to see that you can trim his feet and do filming! Good job! Hearing your knife scratch over the hoof or small stones I wonder if you can (or already did) give some tips how to sharpen a hoof knife. My sharpening is always somehow not satisfying...
I did do a video a while back but I'm not sure where it is. It was a livestream... I'll see about doing another one. I'm not the best at it overall, but I can get them pretty sharp. The trick is to sharpen often!
He is a beautiful buckskin! ❤️🙏 thanks for the video. But I still don't feel comfortable trying to do it myself. I have 3 horses going to call a farrier
I have a question Graeme. I am under the impression from what I read and see (e.g.Samson, the last chance mustang..) that wild and ferral horses, fighting for their survival have their senses and perhaps, intelligence, more acute than well treated domestic horses, established, fed and secure in a sort of routine of protection and availibilty of food resources. The way the Mustang you trained 2 years ago and Wildie today, proves that once they trust a human and feel secure, they understand quite quickly what to do and expected from them, what is safe and not safe, without trying to escape, bite or kick man after a time of habituation. How do you feel about them compared to the adorable domestic pet horseys ?
I'm sorry I missed this question from you. I believe you probably know my answer by now, but just in case I would say that I much prefer to train wildies than domestics and have found they are more trusting and maintain that trust once established. Domestics seem to carry more baggage around I think.
Thank you! Excellent! Also from the most part does this take the place of Farrier visits, if the hooves are doing well? My question is, do you the trims with your tools replace a Farrier trim?
How can I tell that the walls are needing a trim? I have a mare whos battling a bit of thrush on her front right on the lateral wall and I have been treating with vetrycin and then packing with clay. The rear R she has a stone bruise and an abscess we just released so I'm treating with epsom salt poltice when she will give me the foot. However, even after the old frog is trimmed away, I cannot find the tip of the frog. its level with the sole. It almost looks like it just shed off but its so hard that I cannot tell if there is fresh frog beneath it and due to it being thin, I do not want to take anymore away to find the tip of the frog.
As I don't know what your horse's hoof looks like, I can't give direct advice. Here's what I do know: 1. I've never used clay, nor have I thought it a good idea for anything. 2. Vetrycin seems to be a brand name of a product, I don't know exactly what it is but I personally use simple and cheap betadine watered down 10 to 1 for any cleaning I need to do of a frog. This is a surgical wash. This is only used to be able to see what I'm doing and possible flush out "bad things", it's not for "curing" thrush. 3. Thrush is caused by bad trimming, nothing else. Good trimming will fix it. If you really want to speed up the process you can use a very strong antibiotic applied topically in the central sulcus (as it will always have a bad crack), stuff with a bit of cotton and leave it for a week or 2, apply once more if need be. Most solve after 1 treatment. The most important thing to do though is trim properly. Based on your description I can tell your horse has very poor hoof care. Abscesses and "stone bruises" are all signs of internal damage and trauma. If the tip of the frog is level with the sole you have very serious issues. Stop trimming the frog and stop looking for the tip of the frog. It'll sort out when the rest of the hoof sorts out. If I were to guess, somebody told you to trim the toes incessantly, that is unneeded. Here are two other videos that may help you: th-cam.com/video/H8SExXMKxns/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/nvts-Rr8ZkQ/w-d-xo.html
@@StableHorseTraining Actually, her hooves look great but we did have a very long and muddy season here. The place I board her kept the horses ion the paddock rather than the field like they are now. We bought her last year and she was kept as a pasture pet prior. The thrush is only in one small area as I have been cleaning and treating daily. I use a farrier every 8 weeks and do not trim her myself. The hoof we have been dealing with regarding the tip of the frog is the one she has the thrush. I am allowing it to grow back thick and plump and not working or riding her until it is. The thrush is being treated with a betadine solution called vetrycin and I am also packing until the fields finish drying here in Idaho. If she were on my own property, I highly doubt I would be dealing with this problem. Its difficult to get a horse that was a pet in the pasture to a prime working animal.
I purchased them on Amazon, they are bonsai nippers actually :) absolutely amazing little nippers to be honest, well worth the money. Get the expensive ones as they just last years and years
Are they only for taking out bits of frog and bar and a larger, separate nipper used for walls? I find it difficult to trim bars and frog with a hoof knife and it looks like this would help a lot.
Is it this one, because there are about ten different kinds. Wazakura Hand Forged Bonsai Concave Branch Cutter, Made in Japan 8inch(200mm), Japanese Gardening Tools, Straight Edge Black $45.99
There was an answer that it was a bonsai nipper. Could you please tell me which one it was, because there are a bunch on Amazon. Was it Wazakura Hand Forged Bonsai Concave Branch Cutter, Made in Japan 8inch(200mm) "Straight Edge Black" $45.99
Horses don't need shoes. Shoes are an invention from a very very very long time ago and there are far superior methods and technology nowadays to protect their feet if they need it.
Check out my online hoof trimming course here for more info! myhorsecoach.com/courses/horse-hoof-trimming-101/
I'm glad I'm not the only horse owner with a horse that likes to take his foot from you
it happens all the time to the majority of horse owners.
I picked up a Percheron draft a couple of months ago and we have been working on his feet a lot. I will never need a gym membership again!
Helpful video with great respect and kind horse handling
Glad it was helpful!
He's really taken to the whole idea of trimming quickly. Maybe because he feels better when it's done? This is excellent information! 😊
That's the idea. I think there are a lot of horses out there that feel worse after and as such don't want people touching their feet. I think it only gets easier as time goes on if there are a series of good trims where they come away from it feeling better.
Thank you Graeme. I really like when you make these kind of learning video’s
You're welcome!
He stands still for you like a champ, amazing after such a short time with him. Love him! And his feet look really good for being unkept until now. Really says alot for no metal horse shoes viewpoint. Love that.! Thanks for your time and very informative videos, awesome as always.
Thanks Carla! (it seems I completely missed the comments from a while ago...)
Wow. He stand so solidly for you …allowing you to go down and touch his hooves while making a video. Way to go Oscar. Got to get him on TikTok now. 👍🏻
I love your demeanor and patience with him throughout definitely makes all the difference and is refreshing to see! Also great jnstructable- thanks:)
Thank you!
That was really cool to watch. I just noticed now how long his feathers are.
Very informative and how cooperative, good, he is👍 his fetlocks are so hairy ! He seems to have solid hooves used by running on hard grounds. Thank you Graeme 🐎
What a good boy. I’m sure glad you’re the expert on hooves. I swear I couldn’t see what needed attention until you pointed it out. (“Good boy”referred to the horse). 😁
I love how you trim ❤
thank you!
Thanks for this! Great educational video!
He was so still and quiet while you were evaluating his front feet
Really nice work on the hooves they look pretty healthy!
Thanks!
Very nice to see that you can trim his feet and do filming! Good job! Hearing your knife scratch over the hoof or small stones I wonder if you can (or already did) give some tips how to sharpen a hoof knife. My sharpening is always somehow not satisfying...
I did do a video a while back but I'm not sure where it is. It was a livestream... I'll see about doing another one. I'm not the best at it overall, but I can get them pretty sharp. The trick is to sharpen often!
@@StableHorseTraining Thank very much! That would be very nice!
He is a beautiful buckskin! ❤️🙏 thanks for the video. But I still don't feel comfortable trying to do it myself. I have 3 horses going to call a farrier
I have a question Graeme. I am under the impression from what I read and see (e.g.Samson, the last chance mustang..) that wild and ferral horses, fighting for their survival have their senses and perhaps, intelligence, more acute than well treated domestic horses, established, fed and secure in a sort of routine of protection and availibilty of food resources. The way the Mustang you trained 2 years ago and Wildie today, proves that once they trust a human and feel secure, they understand quite quickly what to do and expected from them, what is safe and not safe, without trying to escape, bite or kick man after a time of habituation. How do you feel about them compared to the adorable domestic pet horseys ?
I'm sorry I missed this question from you. I believe you probably know my answer by now, but just in case I would say that I much prefer to train wildies than domestics and have found they are more trusting and maintain that trust once established. Domestics seem to carry more baggage around I think.
@@StableHorseTraining no problem. Thank you Graeme👍 it's what I thought and indeed you confirmed over the months.
You work so hard! It's very impressive. BTW Who's the dude behind you?
Ha! Yes, it's Luke and I on the back of the trailer. Of course I did a whole video about that too...
Wildie does better than my 16 yr old
Thank you! Excellent! Also from the most part does this take the place of Farrier visits, if the hooves are doing well? My question is, do you the trims with your tools replace a Farrier trim?
Yes, this is not just a maintenance trim. The trim on this foot is a full trim.
Very pretty feet on Mr Wilde... He's lovely in general
How can I tell that the walls are needing a trim? I have a mare whos battling a bit of thrush on her front right on the lateral wall and I have been treating with vetrycin and then packing with clay. The rear R she has a stone bruise and an abscess we just released so I'm treating with epsom salt poltice when she will give me the foot. However, even after the old frog is trimmed away, I cannot find the tip of the frog. its level with the sole. It almost looks like it just shed off but its so hard that I cannot tell if there is fresh frog beneath it and due to it being thin, I do not want to take anymore away to find the tip of the frog.
As I don't know what your horse's hoof looks like, I can't give direct advice. Here's what I do know:
1. I've never used clay, nor have I thought it a good idea for anything.
2. Vetrycin seems to be a brand name of a product, I don't know exactly what it is but I personally use simple and cheap betadine watered down 10 to 1 for any cleaning I need to do of a frog. This is a surgical wash. This is only used to be able to see what I'm doing and possible flush out "bad things", it's not for "curing" thrush.
3. Thrush is caused by bad trimming, nothing else. Good trimming will fix it. If you really want to speed up the process you can use a very strong antibiotic applied topically in the central sulcus (as it will always have a bad crack), stuff with a bit of cotton and leave it for a week or 2, apply once more if need be. Most solve after 1 treatment.
The most important thing to do though is trim properly. Based on your description I can tell your horse has very poor hoof care. Abscesses and "stone bruises" are all signs of internal damage and trauma. If the tip of the frog is level with the sole you have very serious issues. Stop trimming the frog and stop looking for the tip of the frog. It'll sort out when the rest of the hoof sorts out. If I were to guess, somebody told you to trim the toes incessantly, that is unneeded.
Here are two other videos that may help you:
th-cam.com/video/H8SExXMKxns/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/nvts-Rr8ZkQ/w-d-xo.html
Also, thrush never exists in the walls. Likely the walls are so flared and rotten that there is just no live tissue holding it together.
@@StableHorseTraining Actually, her hooves look great but we did have a very long and muddy season here. The place I board her kept the horses ion the paddock rather than the field like they are now. We bought her last year and she was kept as a pasture pet prior. The thrush is only in one small area as I have been cleaning and treating daily. I use a farrier every 8 weeks and do not trim her myself. The hoof we have been dealing with regarding the tip of the frog is the one she has the thrush. I am allowing it to grow back thick and plump and not working or riding her until it is. The thrush is being treated with a betadine solution called vetrycin and I am also packing until the fields finish drying here in Idaho. If she were on my own property, I highly doubt I would be dealing with this problem. Its difficult to get a horse that was a pet in the pasture to a prime working animal.
Stupid question, can you soak some of the dirt out first, maybe hose feet off ??
Yes
Could you please tell me what the matt is?
It's just a thick rubber mat to help keep his feet off the sand to reduce brushing them
What nippers are you using on the bars and frog?
Just little ones that are used to nip bonsai trees actually
I know this is kinda random but I was wondering what type of breed Lena is
Here you go: th-cam.com/video/9g0q8hnaQH4/w-d-xo.html
Where do you get those nippers with the small “bite”?
I purchased them on Amazon, they are bonsai nippers actually :) absolutely amazing little nippers to be honest, well worth the money. Get the expensive ones as they just last years and years
Are they only for taking out bits of frog and bar and a larger, separate nipper used for walls? I find it difficult to trim bars and frog with a hoof knife and it looks like this would help a lot.
Is it this one, because there are about ten different kinds. Wazakura Hand Forged Bonsai Concave Branch Cutter, Made in Japan 8inch(200mm), Japanese Gardening Tools, Straight Edge Black $45.99
There was an answer that it was a bonsai nipper. Could you please tell me which one it was, because there are a bunch on Amazon. Was it Wazakura Hand Forged Bonsai Concave Branch Cutter, Made in Japan 8inch(200mm) "Straight Edge Black"
$45.99
He losing patience with you. He is such a good boy. He is teaching you well......
how comes the horse doesnt have shoes?
Horses don't need shoes. Shoes are an invention from a very very very long time ago and there are far superior methods and technology nowadays to protect their feet if they need it.