This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 10/18/2004 10:31:05 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One thing that I have changed is how I trim in the winter. I tend to leave them plenty of sole, taking off almost nothing, and also not much frog, other than minor tidying. Maybe it helps them, maybe not.
*** Interesting. Here I do kind of the opposite. Since this is the Bay Area California, winter means only some rain and temps as low as 50. OK, before Marsha Jo corrects me, I'll say it does get colder but not very often ;-) Summer is when I worry about feet with the hard, rocky ground. I normally only remove the sole that is shedding, summer or winter, and I leave the toe callus if it does not want to come off. I only cut the frog if it is shedding or thrushy (that never happens to my Fjords, but it does happen to other horses who live in stalls). During the winter I tend to remove more hoof tissue because the wet ground softens the feet and loosens things up, and is more forgiving if they are a bit short. / )_~ /L/L Brigid Wasson SF Bay Area, CA www.Brigid.Clickryder.com
