thank you Linda, I follow you on TH-cam and Facebook. YOU have dedicated a great portion of your time to these beautiful animals. Thank you for studying out side the box. Not following protocol, and taking the class room outside, inside and back outside! Ha it's wonderful to study them with you😀
can you put the dates on the Tact mapping so we know which order they fall. I think I know as the shape of the hoof changes but being sure of it is better than an educated (thanks to you) guess. And Thank you for allowing us to look over your shoulder as you figure this out and learn along with you. So many horses are living with less pain or pain free 'happy hoo(ves)f' because of your efforts.
Hello Linda, Missing you and your videos. Have not seen anything new for awhile. I am not on facebook so don't know if activity there is more current. I feel I am on the same journey having believed all the Wild Hoof/Natural Hoof trimming stuff and having the same poor results like you and wondering why. Your information has helped me understand better. There is so much to get your head around. What to do when and why as the hoof corrects. How to read and what signs to look for so important. So the more of your current videos the better. Thanks for all of your efforts and for your willling-ness to be honest and to share
Hey Linda, love your videos! I'm a horse owner whose miniature just foundered and am trying to learn trimming techniques so that I can "supervise" my farrier to make sure that she gets proper foot reconstruction (it's only been a month since the founder). Do you possibly know what the measurements would be for a miniature horse? Also, I notice that you don't use nippers but only a rasp....why is that? Wow, I wish I knew (or understood) half of what you do!!! Great job lady
Hello. I just started hoof trimming and I really want to learn more about the horse foots anatomy . Thank you for sharing your experience. Your work is very good. You explain what you do precisely, why you do it and how you do it. Next time I will use a ruler so I can follow the hoofs measurements and growth. Can you make a special video where you explain the common (and/or beginners) mistakes of hoof trimming?
I made every mistake and believed every false thing taught out there by the natural hoof care movment. the worst thing you can do is follow any of them, I tried it all and found it really filled with a LOT of error. so just stick here with the basics and learn the basic anatomy and you will avoid many of the pitfalls I did. Other than that right now I can't think of anythying. Good luck and join me on facebook.
Hi Linda, I live in New Zealand and have learnt so much from your videos in the past year. I think you are brilliant, very clear with how, why, and when....even giving us the physical evidence on your teachings. So grateful to have found you. I have gain confidence in caring for my miniatures hoofs which in turn has given me belief in myself. I thank you for all your work. With the measurements ....is there any guide line for the miniatures hoofs? Thanks Karyn.
Another really great video, the only thing that really throws me off is the way the heels look like they stick up higher than the rest of the hoof when viewed from the back....do you have a specific video to help me picture and get this in my head?! THANKS!
Go to Pete Ramey web site and to article and look up an article on the article page called Toe and Heel length. In that article he has some pictures of a dissection of a wild horse hoof, where you will see the inner foot setting on the sole with the heel buttress still attaches at the back and you will see that even though the heel buttress is long the horse has an inch of sole. Also when you are growing these heels in as the foot is adjusting it will seem as you have indicated. But you need to get those heels established so you can have some sole in the heel, then you will get sole in the toe as well.
Hi Linda i have watched all your vids, thank you so much for doing them. my qh horse foundered quickly and terribly, bones through sole back in dec15 after paddock accident & surgeries to wounds.contrary to all vets advice, hes now back to rideable 12 mo on. but i have perpetual issue seedy toe from the original split in soles, its been the cause of all his discomfort since the 3mo point. once (at 5mo point) i cut back toe as much as i could to see how far it had got & see if i could get it all out but it definitely had reached corium tip of pedal bone & lying atop bit of sole in corium. you must see a lot of seedy toe in founders. Do you have any recommendations for dealing with deep persistant seedy toe while growing out new tight hoof? the seedy toe sits there like a toxic puddle while things grow around it. so frustrating. Thank you, Sarah, NZ
Hi Sarah, Sorry I did not get back with you, yes you can correct that, it just means the dorsal wall and to are not tight enough yet and you still have some necrotic tissue in the toe, which that fungus or bacteria likes to eat. Just keep working on keeping the toe back and eventually it will go away. It's not really hurting anything, it's actually just eating dead stuff. That's my opinion anyway, but it is ugly.
thehappyhoof thank you Linda. two weeks later & we've made progress. I really appreciate your reply. so much conflicting advice at every turn. I've followed your advice (with a few early mistakes on heel height) and I have my beautiful horse back sound after 28 degrees of rotation. bones sticking out the bottom & whole hoof separated to inside of bars. no drugs shoes grass or stabling. THANK YOU!
Thanks Linda for your amazingly clear video! You have a reason to do the hoof as you explain the reasons to us. That keeps us thinking instead of copying the work. And the thinking makes it adjustable to your own horse's needs and specific problems. Will the manual be for sale? Also outside of the US? I live in Europe and I would like to have a copy!
Hi there is wall next to the sole but the hardest outer horn tubuels have been knocked down and rasped smooth. but you want some wall next to the sole supporting it. I'm still working on the manual...it's going slow.
Great video Linda, is there any hoof wall above the sole? Or is the wall and sole at the same level? Also when do you think the hoof mapping manual will be ready? thanks:)
No this is my Old QH ranch mare that was his dam. She passed away at 30 in 2017. I learned a tremendouls amount from her, and was able to pretty much restore her heels and in her dissections learned about the importance of what is called "the frog stay". I have a video on here showing the reason for the frog stay and it's importance to hoof mechanism.
Hi nice vid, thanks for it, does it works the same with rears ? Probably different measures right? :D Maybe dumb question. I do just basic maintain trim, but I wanna learn
Hi Hanna, yes it is the same for the rear as the fronts. I trim all the feet the same. I mean they each have their different issues we work on, but primarily you should have 4 matched set of hooves just like a car has or should have 4 matched set of tires.
thehappyhoof isn't the rear hoof more of an oval and a little less in width than the front? I have always been able to tell a rear print from a front by the shape. I had 2 mustangs that were right off the range that had been sent into Canada for slaughter (a shameful secret up here) for dog food or human consumption (shipped over to Europe). 2 box cars of them got miss directed and ended up in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, near where I'm from. This was 50 years ago (I can't believe it's that far back) and I believe the Humane Society stepped in and wouldn't let CN Rail redirect them to where they should have been sent originally, without them being unloaded and allowed to rest, be watered and fed before hand. CN had no facility to do this in the Soo and ( I'm guessing here), that it was cheaper for them to just surrender the horses. I was just a kid who lived and breathed horses (don't all little girls?) who had outgrown my Shetland pony and the only other horse available to me ( one of my older brother's and sister's quarter horse (16h)) was too tall for me, so 2 of these mustangs made it to our farm. They were on the small side, 12h and 13h but they were perfect for me and my younger brother. They had never been handle but roughly and had no trust of people. The younger, smaller one was my brother's and tamed down fairly quickly. Mine had to be won over. I learned a lot about horse communication from her (the quarter horse and Shetland were far more forgiving when I misunderstood what they were trying to tell me). I remember her feet. they were much different from our domestic horses and her feet (she was black) didn't need much care at all beyond filing off some extra length every 6 months or so. They were classic mustang feet, front round with deep sole and concavity, back slightly smaller and more oval shaped. So - getting to the point of all this, you don't mean that all 4 hooves on a horse should match, right? The front are different from the rear, in size and shape - mind you, I haven't taken care of a horse's hooves for over 20 years and I'm working from memory. I'm near retirement and really would like to get back into horses and that's were my pimary facination in your videos comes from.
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thank you Linda, I follow you on TH-cam and Facebook. YOU have dedicated a great portion of your time to these beautiful animals. Thank you for studying out side the box. Not following protocol, and taking the class room outside, inside and back outside! Ha it's wonderful to study them with you😀
Linda is this mapping still correctly aligned with your findings?
can you put the dates on the Tact mapping so we know which order they fall. I think I know as the shape of the hoof changes but being sure of it is better than an educated (thanks to you) guess. And Thank you for allowing us to look over your shoulder as you figure this out and learn along with you. So many horses are living with less pain or pain free 'happy hoo(ves)f' because of your efforts.
Hello Linda, Missing you and your videos. Have not seen anything new for awhile. I am not on facebook so don't know if activity there is more current. I feel I am on the same journey having believed all the Wild Hoof/Natural Hoof trimming stuff and having the same poor results like you and wondering why. Your information has helped me understand better. There is so much to get your head around. What to do when and why as the hoof corrects. How to read and what signs to look for so important. So the more of your current videos the better. Thanks for all of your efforts and for your willling-ness to be honest and to share
Hey Linda, love your videos! I'm a horse owner whose miniature just foundered and am trying to learn trimming techniques so that I can "supervise" my farrier to make sure that she gets proper foot reconstruction (it's only been a month since the founder). Do you possibly know what the measurements would be for a miniature horse? Also, I notice that you don't use nippers but only a rasp....why is that? Wow, I wish I knew (or understood) half of what you do!!! Great job lady
Erika Robinson .... because she doesn’t know how to use a nipper. She can barely use a rasp for gods sake!
Hello. I just started hoof trimming and I really want to learn more about the horse foots anatomy . Thank you for sharing your experience. Your work is very good. You explain what you do precisely, why you do it and how you do it. Next time I will use a ruler so I can follow the hoofs measurements and growth. Can you make a special video where you explain the common (and/or beginners) mistakes of hoof trimming?
I made every mistake and believed every false thing taught out there by the natural hoof care movment. the worst thing you can do is follow any of them, I tried it all and found it really filled with a LOT of error. so just stick here with the basics and learn the basic anatomy and you will avoid many of the pitfalls I did. Other than that right now I can't think of anythying. Good luck and join me on facebook.
Hi Linda, I live in New Zealand and have learnt so much from your videos in the past year. I think you are brilliant, very clear with how, why, and when....even giving us the physical evidence on your teachings. So grateful to have found you. I have gain confidence in caring for my miniatures hoofs which in turn has given me belief in myself. I thank you for all your work.
With the measurements ....is there any guide line for the miniatures hoofs? Thanks Karyn.
Just love your videos!
Thank you Elizabeth!
Another really great video, the only thing that really throws me off is the way the heels look like they stick up higher than the rest of the hoof when viewed from the back....do you have a specific video to help me picture and get this in my head?! THANKS!
Go to Pete Ramey web site and to article and look up an article on the article page called Toe and Heel length. In that article he has some pictures of a dissection of a wild horse hoof, where you will see the inner foot setting on the sole with the heel buttress still attaches at the back and you will see that even though the heel buttress is long the horse has an inch of sole. Also when you are growing these heels in as the foot is adjusting it will seem as you have indicated. But you need to get those heels established so you can have some sole in the heel, then you will get sole in the toe as well.
Thanks, I have his book and have read that article a LONG time ago. Looks like I need to refresh the old memory!
Hi Linda i have watched all your vids, thank you so much for doing them. my qh horse foundered quickly and terribly, bones through sole back in dec15 after paddock accident & surgeries to wounds.contrary to all vets advice, hes now back to rideable 12 mo on. but i have perpetual issue seedy toe from the original split in soles, its been the cause of all his discomfort since the 3mo point. once (at 5mo point) i cut back toe as much as i could to see how far it had got & see if i could get it all out but it definitely had reached corium tip of pedal bone & lying atop bit of sole in corium. you must see a lot of seedy toe in founders. Do you have any recommendations for dealing with deep persistant seedy toe while growing out new tight hoof? the seedy toe sits there like a toxic puddle while things grow around it. so frustrating. Thank you, Sarah, NZ
Hi Sarah, Sorry I did not get back with you, yes you can correct that, it just means the dorsal wall and to are not tight enough yet and you still have some necrotic tissue in the toe, which that fungus or bacteria likes to eat. Just keep working on keeping the toe back and eventually it will go away. It's not really hurting anything, it's actually just eating dead stuff. That's my opinion anyway, but it is ugly.
thehappyhoof thank you Linda. two weeks later & we've made progress. I really appreciate your reply. so much conflicting advice at every turn. I've followed your advice (with a few early mistakes on heel height) and I have my beautiful horse back sound after 28 degrees of rotation. bones sticking out the bottom & whole hoof separated to inside of bars. no drugs shoes grass or stabling. THANK YOU!
Thanks Linda for your amazingly clear video! You have a reason to do the hoof as you explain the reasons to us. That keeps us thinking instead of copying the work. And the thinking makes it adjustable to your own horse's needs and specific problems. Will the manual be for sale? Also outside of the US? I live in Europe and I would like to have a copy!
Hi there is wall next to the sole but the hardest outer horn tubuels have been knocked down and rasped smooth. but you want some wall next to the sole supporting it. I'm still working on the manual...it's going slow.
I've got time :D
I'm glad you're making one :D
Here's another European waiting to get hands on that manual!
Yay :D
Great video Linda, is there any hoof wall above the sole? Or is the wall and sole at the same level? Also when do you think the hoof mapping manual will be ready? thanks:)
your hoof are the best i like seeing them on her
Is this the same horse that abcessed and the sole let go which allowed the quarter to move outward and heel got pulled forward on that side?
No this is my Old QH ranch mare that was his dam. She passed away at 30 in 2017. I learned a tremendouls amount from her, and was able to pretty much restore her heels and in her dissections learned about the importance of what is called "the frog stay". I have a video on here showing the reason for the frog stay and it's importance to hoof mechanism.
Is this the most up to date example of mapping the foot?
How do you get your knife so sharp? I'd like to see a video of that.
Hi nice vid, thanks for it, does it works the same with rears ? Probably different measures right? :D Maybe dumb question. I do just basic maintain trim, but I wanna learn
Hi Hanna, yes it is the same for the rear as the fronts. I trim all the feet the same. I mean they each have their different issues we work on, but primarily you should have 4 matched set of hooves just like a car has or should have 4 matched set of tires.
thehappyhoof isn't the rear hoof more of an oval and a little less in width than the front? I have always been able to tell a rear print from a front by the shape. I had 2 mustangs that were right off the range that had been sent into Canada for slaughter (a shameful secret up here) for dog food or human consumption (shipped over to Europe). 2 box cars of them got miss directed and ended up in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, near where I'm from. This was 50 years ago (I can't believe it's that far back) and I believe the Humane Society stepped in and wouldn't let CN Rail redirect them to where they should have been sent originally, without them being unloaded and allowed to rest, be watered and fed before hand. CN had no facility to do this in the Soo and ( I'm guessing here), that it was cheaper for them to just surrender the horses. I was just a kid who lived and breathed horses (don't all little girls?) who had outgrown my Shetland pony and the only other horse available to me ( one of my older brother's and sister's quarter horse (16h)) was too tall for me, so 2 of these mustangs made it to our farm. They were on the small side, 12h and 13h but they were perfect for me and my younger brother. They had never been handle but roughly and had no trust of people. The younger, smaller one was my brother's and tamed down fairly quickly. Mine had to be won over. I learned a lot about horse communication from her (the quarter horse and Shetland were far more forgiving when I misunderstood what they were trying to tell me). I remember her feet. they were much different from our domestic horses and her feet (she was black) didn't need much care at all beyond filing off some extra length every 6 months or so. They were classic mustang feet, front round with deep sole and concavity, back slightly smaller and more oval shaped. So - getting to the point of all this, you don't mean that all 4 hooves on a horse should match, right? The front are different from the rear, in size and shape - mind you, I haven't taken care of a horse's hooves for over 20 years and I'm working from memory. I'm near retirement and really would like to get back into horses and that's were my pimary facination in your videos comes from.
can you help me
horses are kool