A woman who knows when she's got it right because she admits, when she's got it wrong. Keep up the good work, for the sake of all our horses. well done.
shes amazing to even admit she was on the wrong path ...Thank god shes such an amazing woman who is so passionate to help others like me to get things right .love her ....
Linda, if this is not the best video you've done it is certainly in the top of the list. Very informative with great examples to show clearly what you are referring to. I will have to be diligent to stop bringing my heels back by trimming them down. I finally understand that allowing the heel to grow out is more important than bringing it back, which is what I have been wrongly concentrating on. Thank you so much for this one. It is fun to see how you have grown in your understanding of the hoof as well as your videoing skills.
Well demonstrated, well narrated, well explained. Yes, everyone makes mistakes, farriers, too. I am a firm believer in knowing hoof anatomy whether you do your own trimming or hire a farrier or barefoot trimmer to do it. Before I learned to do my own trimming, I've had various professionals who inadvertently took off too much toe, too much sole, and/or too much heel. I am a firm believer in attending all trimming/farrier appointments in person and being clear about what needs to be done/accomplished. I agree with this video demonstration 100 per cent (on the mark!). Thank you.
This was great. I saw your first pillar video last March and started trimming the pillars out of his toe area but continued to trim the heels down per all the famous people. I've been trying to help my horse for years with various farriers due distortions, stretched white line with huge laminar wedge, large flares on the inside of his hooves. They all said oh yea, I can fix that and they NEVER did. When I finally took over, trimming the pillars out did relieve him of a crack in the quarter that was maybe 6 years old on the right front. Right away too. I was excited but then seemed to hit a wall. The reason is now clear to me. I was keeping the heels down to the frog trying to get him to have a heel first landing and was sooooo frustrated. Duh, I was trimming the heel buttress out the whole time. I can't wait till this time next year! His feet ARE better since working on the pillars. The stretched white line is gone, a lot of the flare has been relieved but yet, no heel first landing and heels are still under run (not as bad but still considerably too much). YOU ROCK! Thank You!
Thank you for asking the questions and doing the work. I find it amazing how humans have to work so incredibly hard with their hinderously large brains to un-engineer nature. I think I did a science fair exhibit on the mustang hoof and barefoot horses when I was in fourth grade... i've been chasing it ever since. you are a marvel of nature.
Thank you so much for all your hard work and opening up our eyes! It makes so much sense! Would love to know how to trim to achieve good heel buttresses . My next video I will watch is your Corrective Trimming on a Flared Hoof hopefully I will gain knowledge on how to help my horse grow a healthy sound hoof and one day be able to do maintenance trims on him.
Thank you! As I have been learning to trim my own horses (before I found your videos), heel height was the thing which was confusing me the most. I know not everyone 'gets' your presentation style, but I love your passion and dedication to finding the most anatomically correct and comfortable trim for our horses and fixing what many trimmers, and farriers have traditionally done to heels. Your approach (and the practical demonstrations using cadaver hooves) makes absolute sense to me and I am already seeing improvements in my horses. Keep up the great work!
I definitely believe you on this! I never was taught before and always trimmed my own horses feet and always left the heal and trimmed the toe. My thinking was if its a heal first landing then it will wear down as nature intended and only take the toe area back and rasp the flares.
it also sets the quarter tubules to run long and forwards causing long pillars and toes, which is another thing most folks are trying to beat. In fact, if folks are trimming the heels out they are causing the very things they are trying to change.. = Boot makers win.
In case I fall asleep before I'm done watching.. I'm watching because I have a horse who has been walking through the jungle for five years. If I let someone do his feet, I'm afraid he will go lame from it. There's rocks where he's at. I rented a place to rebuild boats and a month later I find out there's a horse in the field. The grass he eats is 9 feet tall and he hides in the jungle but like the carrots I been bringing him. I think I can get a harness on him soon . He seems to want a Buddy
Morning ..if rhe heels have been trimmed out..Will it grown back in if you you only trim toes and flare ? and could you much roadwork cause heels to self trim too low ?? Thax for the amazing education u provide
Hi Linda, at 53:37 into the video you speak of horses who have the heel buttress trimmed out have wide bulb skin. I believe there are some methods out there that teach their students that a "robust" or thicker bulb and digital cushion represents having more strength and soundness in the back of the hoof. What would give them this idea?
At one point in this journey when I had totally trimmed the heels out of valor and the bulb skin was like 2 inches or wider and it looked like he had these huge bulbs, I thought that was what it was supposed to be. What gives them that idea is the same thing that gave me the idea, which is not knowing the truth to begin with. Every subject has to have a firm foundation in the truth of the basics, and those who teach like they know the anatomy of the horses foot are off on several major anatomical parts. This then perverts their whole thinking process so that they can't see the real foot, and the become convinced that error is truth. Only thing is THE HORSE WILL NOT LIE FOR YOU. If he's not sound he's not going to act like he is just to massage your intellectual ego. Therefore these same instead of going "back to the drawing board"....just figure out some way to blame it on the horse. It is not horse owners that do this but the "teachers" the academics who's heart is in their "profession" and not in the object of their love and affection of a horse, as with so many owners.
My past experience as well, especially seen in my own blm mustang and how his bulbs and frogs got so wide and big. I doubted the "low heels" method I had been taught quite a few years ago, I messed around with the height quite often like you did. But saw that the longer heel was benefitting the horses and they were growing in more sole. When I first found your videos it really hit home for me, so thank you again! Part of the teaching about putting the frog and bulbs into constant ground pressure was that the pressure would help the back half of the hoof get stronger and bigger, more robust and what it did was the opposite of that!!! I really can not stand the lies this promotes to so many trimmers who think they are so correct in their perception when in truth, they don't know anything about the function of the heel buttress of the anatomy of the back half of the hoof!
See what you see in what went on with you and I and I am sure others is that technically but unofficially we are independent researchers doing independent studies. And in these studies we started seeing and arriving at the same answers. I mean I may have a knack for blabbing it on video, but I did not invent the foot of the horse or the truth concerning it. It just "EXISTS" and anyone who cares to look and search will find it. Too bad we have to be taught so much error first, and wade through all that, to come out on the other end with an open mind, but at least we made it through the sewer of lies to find the truth and help our horses.
Yes! I used to think the wider bulbs and big fat frog was the sign of success. Now I see how that wide frog is a congested frog, and stretched out frog, and the wider bulbs are just covering up the mistakes being made.
All ways had a thought in my mind that something was not right with the way horses hoofs looked . I couldn't understand why there heels were dragging the ground and there toe was sticking so far ahead of the hoof . You just proved my gut feeling is right '
Hey sorry but I never get on here to see what people are saying. Contracted heels are usually the result of the horse having had deep centrual sulcus thrush at some time or the other. It eats very deep into the center of the frog and up into the sensitive frog corium. The horse then will not really put his heel down and due to that the the frog being eaten up, the heels contract. you have to get the frog trimmed up, clean out the central sulcus treat it with New Hoof Concentrate for Dairy Cattle (BEST STUFF EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) And then growing the proper amount of heel and correct trimming the heels will eventually start to widen back out.
Iam new to the Channel and just catching up the videos. I was just wondering if you could tell from the outside of what is anatomic correct heel lenght or in which range it should be? Thanks for all your affort!
Hi. I've just started trimming my 2 Arabians hoofs (3&4 yrs old) for the first time ever (mine and theirs). I've trimmed them twice so far, trimming off the heels, like in this video: th-cam.com/play/PLSqrAJ5SnRA334V87Yg2YV-DXxNTLz-IR.html&si=Aq6sTWr7qLsTIsV9 but it never made sense to me. The issue is that everyone and farriers are doing it. Since watching your video, I stopped. Now my question is: How do I know how long the heels need to be if I shouldn't trim them off? Sorry if I'm confused and would doubly appreciate your guidance. Tks
I cant believe at this time there is 7 dislikes?! How can you argue with this info? It just goes to show how ignorant some people are, just get over you have learned the wrong info and grow!
That's biblical says in the Bible the Egyptian physicians which did the child births did not wash their hands! Which God's law was saying to wash your hands. So the organ of where history repeats it's self is mind blowing!
Some interesting points here, but a lot of it is missed in the hectoring tone and constant repetition. Not everyone trims like Strasser, in fact I don't know ANYONE that does here in the UK and I found the constant Strasser bashing tedious and pointless. We got it the first time. If you have good material to deliver this is not necessary.
A woman who knows when she's got it right because she admits, when she's got it wrong. Keep up the good work, for the sake of all our horses. well done.
shes amazing to even admit she was on the wrong path ...Thank god shes such an amazing woman who is so passionate to help others like me to get things right .love her ....
Linda, if this is not the best video you've done it is certainly in the top of the list. Very informative with great examples to show clearly what you are referring to. I will have to be diligent to stop bringing my heels back by trimming them down. I finally understand that allowing the heel to grow out is more important than bringing it back, which is what I have been wrongly concentrating on. Thank you so much for this one. It is fun to see how you have grown in your understanding of the hoof as well as your videoing skills.
I still remember that day you wrote me to say STOP TRIMMING x's heels! Because you had just had an insight! Well done and long live your OCD x
Well demonstrated, well narrated, well explained. Yes, everyone makes mistakes, farriers, too. I am a firm believer in knowing hoof anatomy whether you do your own trimming or hire a farrier or barefoot trimmer to do it. Before I learned to do my own trimming, I've had various professionals who inadvertently took off too much toe, too much sole, and/or too much heel. I am a firm believer in attending all trimming/farrier appointments in person and being clear about what needs to be done/accomplished. I agree with this video demonstration 100 per cent (on the mark!). Thank you.
This was great. I saw your first pillar video last March and started trimming the pillars out of his toe area but continued to trim the heels down per all the famous people. I've been trying to help my horse for years with various farriers due distortions, stretched white line with huge laminar wedge, large flares on the inside of his hooves. They all said oh yea, I can fix that and they NEVER did. When I finally took over, trimming the pillars out did relieve him of a crack in the quarter that was maybe 6 years old on the right front. Right away too. I was excited but then seemed to hit a wall. The reason is now clear to me. I was keeping the heels down to the frog trying to get him to have a heel first landing and was sooooo frustrated. Duh, I was trimming the heel buttress out the whole time. I can't wait till this time next year! His feet ARE better since working on the pillars. The stretched white line is gone, a lot of the flare has been relieved but yet, no heel first landing and heels are still under run (not as bad but still considerably too much). YOU ROCK! Thank You!
Thank you for asking the questions and doing the work. I find it amazing how humans have to work so incredibly hard with their hinderously large brains to un-engineer nature. I think I did a science fair exhibit on the mustang hoof and barefoot horses when I was in fourth grade... i've been chasing it ever since. you are a marvel of nature.
Thank you! this is brilliant..still wrapping my head around it...but sincerely appreciate all the teaching you are doing!
Thank you so much for all your hard work and opening up our eyes! It makes so much sense! Would love to know how to trim to achieve good heel buttresses . My next video I will watch is your Corrective Trimming on a Flared Hoof hopefully I will gain knowledge on how to help my horse grow a healthy sound hoof and one day be able to do maintenance trims on him.
Thank you! As I have been learning to trim my own horses (before I found your videos), heel height was the thing which was confusing me the most. I know not everyone 'gets' your presentation style, but I love your passion and dedication to finding the most anatomically correct and comfortable trim for our horses and fixing what many trimmers, and farriers have traditionally done to heels. Your approach (and the practical demonstrations using cadaver hooves) makes absolute sense to me and I am already seeing improvements in my horses. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for explaining the anatomy... finally a video that does just that.
I definitely believe you on this! I never was taught before and always trimmed my own horses feet and always left the heal and trimmed the toe. My thinking was if its a heal first landing then it will wear down as nature intended and only take the toe area back and rasp the flares.
it also sets the quarter tubules to run long and forwards causing long pillars and toes, which is another thing most folks are trying to beat. In fact, if folks are trimming the heels out they are causing the very things they are trying to change..
= Boot makers win.
Excellent. Thank you Linda
Nice to see someone else trimming like I do
In case I fall asleep before I'm done watching.. I'm watching because I have a horse who has been walking through the jungle for five years. If I let someone do his feet, I'm afraid he will go lame from it. There's rocks where he's at. I rented a place to rebuild boats and a month later I find out there's a horse in the field. The grass he eats is 9 feet tall and he hides in the jungle but like the carrots I been bringing him. I think I can get a harness on him soon . He seems to want a Buddy
Morning ..if rhe heels have been trimmed out..Will it grown back in if you you only trim toes and flare ? and could you much roadwork cause heels to self trim too low ?? Thax for the amazing education u provide
Hi Linda, at 53:37 into the video you speak of horses who have the heel buttress trimmed out have wide bulb skin. I believe there are some methods out there that teach their students that a "robust" or thicker bulb and digital cushion represents having more strength and soundness in the back of the hoof. What would give them this idea?
At one point in this journey when I had totally trimmed the heels out of valor and the bulb skin was like 2 inches or wider and it looked like he had these huge bulbs, I thought that was what it was supposed to be. What gives them that idea is the same thing that gave me the idea, which is not knowing the truth to begin with. Every subject has to have a firm foundation in the truth of the basics, and those who teach like they know the anatomy of the horses foot are off on several major anatomical parts. This then perverts their whole thinking process so that they can't see the real foot, and the become convinced that error is truth. Only thing is THE HORSE WILL NOT LIE FOR YOU. If he's not sound he's not going to act like he is just to massage your intellectual ego. Therefore these same instead of going "back to the drawing board"....just figure out some way to blame it on the horse. It is not horse owners that do this but the "teachers" the academics who's heart is in their "profession" and not in the object of their love and affection of a horse, as with so many owners.
My past experience as well, especially seen in my own blm mustang and how his bulbs and frogs got so wide and big. I doubted the "low heels" method I had been taught quite a few years ago, I messed around with the height quite often like you did. But saw that the longer heel was benefitting the horses and they were growing in more sole. When I first found your videos it really hit home for me, so thank you again! Part of the teaching about putting the frog and bulbs into constant ground pressure was that the pressure would help the back half of the hoof get stronger and bigger, more robust and what it did was the opposite of that!!! I really can not stand the lies this promotes to so many trimmers who think they are so correct in their perception when in truth, they don't know anything about the function of the heel buttress of the anatomy of the back half of the hoof!
See what you see in what went on with you and I and I am sure others is that technically but unofficially we are independent researchers doing independent studies. And in these studies we started seeing and arriving at the same answers. I mean I may have a knack for blabbing it on video, but I did not invent the foot of the horse or the truth concerning it. It just "EXISTS" and anyone who cares to look and search will find it. Too bad we have to be taught so much error first, and wade through all that, to come out on the other end with an open mind, but at least we made it through the sewer of lies to find the truth and help our horses.
Yes! I used to think the wider bulbs and big fat frog was the sign of success. Now I see how that wide frog is a congested frog, and stretched out frog, and the wider bulbs are just covering up the mistakes being made.
Rhiannon - thank you for pointing out Lindas Video - very, very enlightening.
All ways had a thought in my mind that something was not right with the way horses hoofs looked . I couldn't understand why there heels were dragging the ground and there toe was sticking so far ahead of the hoof . You just proved my gut feeling is right '
Thanks! Working on all this!
Do you have any videos on contracted heels?
Hey sorry but I never get on here to see what people are saying. Contracted heels are usually the result of the horse having had deep centrual sulcus thrush at some time or the other. It eats very deep into the center of the frog and up into the sensitive frog corium. The horse then will not really put his heel down and due to that the the frog being eaten up, the heels contract. you have to get the frog trimmed up, clean out the central sulcus treat it with New Hoof Concentrate for Dairy Cattle (BEST STUFF EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) And then growing the proper amount of heel and correct trimming the heels will eventually start to widen back out.
Iam new to the Channel and just catching up the videos. I was just wondering if you could tell from the outside of what is anatomic correct heel lenght or in which range it should be? Thanks for all your affort!
I have found on most general sized horses 1 3/4" to 2"
Thank you, my horse realy appreciate it. Keep up with the awesome work of yours!
You are top class girl!
Brilliant 💗
thank you .
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Have a four year old. I have not touched his heels in many months but he doesn't seem to grow any heel. How to correct ?
Thank you!!!!
Hi. I've just started trimming my 2 Arabians hoofs (3&4 yrs old) for the first time ever (mine and theirs). I've trimmed them twice so far, trimming off the heels, like in this video: th-cam.com/play/PLSqrAJ5SnRA334V87Yg2YV-DXxNTLz-IR.html&si=Aq6sTWr7qLsTIsV9
but it never made sense to me. The issue is that everyone and farriers are doing it. Since watching your video, I stopped. Now my question is: How do I know how long the heels need to be if I shouldn't trim them off? Sorry if I'm confused and would doubly appreciate your guidance. Tks
I cant believe at this time there is 7 dislikes?! How can you argue with this info? It just goes to show how ignorant some people are, just get over you have learned the wrong info and grow!
Isn’t it a lot easier to just say heels should be no lower than the hard sole plane and balanced front to back and side to side?
They said we dont need geometry, i differ.
That's biblical says in the Bible the Egyptian physicians which did the child births did not wash their hands! Which God's law was saying to wash your hands. So the organ of where history repeats it's self is mind blowing!
Slot of children and mothers died from the Egyptians
Some interesting points here, but a lot of it is missed in the hectoring tone and constant repetition. Not everyone trims like Strasser, in fact I don't know ANYONE that does here in the UK and I found the constant Strasser bashing tedious and pointless. We got it the first time. If you have good material to deliver this is not necessary.
dubbed toes and chopped heels
Your voice is making my ears hurt
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