Some recent and not so recent research has prompted my writing this article. In the past two decades, horseshoe manufactures have been inadvertently or perhaps intentionally trends that prove to be detrimental to the horses, too, that could go barefoot attitude. You read it right; apply trend shoes manufacturers could have an influence on your barefoot horse. Not be produced by the manufacture of shoes, but by the type of shoes she.
Think back towhen I started as a blacksmith for nearly 25 years ago, I can remember my weekly pilgrimage to the local blacksmith-supply store to get the necessary inventory of my shoe shoeing truck for the week to buy shares. I would calculate the number of pairs and the size I would have to work in the coming weeks. As my business increased, it became harder to find the time to make the weekly trips, and I soon found myself my inventory for the month.
The creation of a horseshoe was inventoryfairly simple. I, like most farriers at this stage would fullered buy, perforated drum shoes from the case, in the most common sizes 00, 0, 1, 2, 3 The term keg shoe provides the most common of the machine made horseshoes. The keg shoe comes in a general oval shape and was called a "draft Shoe" because it originally in barrels (bbl shipped). This kind of shoes almost always necessary to be shaped around to fit the rear or front foot of the horse. Too often, the hasty Farrier easywould spread, or pass near the shoe a foot, and then the shape of the foot to the shoe., instead of the shoe to the foot.
This is likely the first in the beginning of what would be the trend by type of shoe, which was started by a shoe-manufacturing available. It was the early form of the draft produced shoes, where it all began, trend-setting.
Developed as a new manufacturing process that produces began producing shoes in a variety of new forms. Thefirst new-style shoes are supplied, were front and hind patterns, the shoes came from Europe. American Farriers who take the time to Flack for setting the trend for a long toe and low heels, said this increase will help step, were quick to embrace this convenient way of addressing breakover. This was the beginning of a new trend, ont, which prove how harmful to the horses for so long can now run under the toes and heels.
It was the hind pattern shoe that reallyit would change things. The hind pattern shoe was the first shoe readily available in order to be offered with a square foot. Quick manufacturers introduced hind shoes with prefabricated clips on this page, and front shoes with toe clips. The front shoe pattern was often seen as the standard keg shoe-rounder, that many of the farriers in time. It may have been why some farriers began with hind pattern at the front of the horse, this proves to be an easy way for the provision of a square toe the front foot, so a simple assembly.
Twenty years ago, the square toed shoe has been viewed more frequently than a remedial or corrective type shoe. It did not occur often as a barrel of used shoes. Prior will be able to purchase the square-toed shoes are forged, the place had to toe.
In about ten years model boots flooded the market.
US-based companies began producing shoes in patterns that are not as round as the European-type pattern> Shoes. This new version more consistent with the traditional keg shoe. With the increase of production price cuts came, making it economical to buy shoes cut off, instead of forging them. Introduced in the mid-nineties Eventer-type shoes. These shoes were rolled a cross pattern that claim to help in the breakover, they came in front and hind patterns.
About the mid-nineties, we say increased use of natural balance shoe(NBS), which was created after the base of the wild horse. She also had Square Toe and came in front and back pattern. Each time was introduced when a new shoe, it was accompanied by claims that supports the shoe tilting, and / or where necessary to support the heel. This is true even today, most of the newly developed horseshoes.
So where is all this going?
Have brought to the point, shoe manufacturer has been setting trends that affect the way the blacksmith addresses foot.
I recentlycompiled research on a little understood disease that affects many of today's horses, the black hole seedy toe.
Our investigations began in 2001, the opening of the International Institute of Equine Podiatry. Inc., since that time, we have examined over 1200 foot cadaver specimens. We observe a dramatic increase in the incidence of black-hole-type seedy toe. Studies have now shown indicating that there may be various trimming and shoeing trends that cause for this increaseThe incidence of this disease.
Our research is that more and more frequently shown that it is not the black hole evidence of a hyper keratinizing horny mass, in which creana marginalis of the coffin bone is (seen as a notch in the coffin bone). One theory suggests that an abnormal increase in the size of the supply creana marginalis probably due to infected blood. Other studies imply that the cause is the appearance of the HKH mass at the site of creana marginalisStress.
Biopsies were taken from prepared by twenty (20) model compounds and for the examination. Opinions gathered from several pathologists were in agreement, the HKH mass was the result of hyperplasia of epithelial cells with keratinization, it is likely to be triggered by stress.
Photomicrographs of tissue from the masses often showed elongated secondary epidermal lamellae (SEL), this event was associated with changes in the response to stress.
The measurements were taken from theSolar foot print of the twenty specimens were harvested from which the masses. This showed us that the greater variance in balance, the greater the mass appeared often. The most common causes of imbalance were run under heels, and the creation of extremely short Kipp.
The research has allowed us to develop a set of hypotheses.
1 theory that abnormal increases in the size of the creana marginalis of the coffin bone, the result of an infectedBlood supply because of the long toe is no longer tenable.
2nd research supports the hypothesis that abnormal increases may be the growing surface in response to increased load in the size of the marginal creana the natural way.
3rd evidence supports the theory that stress and the resulting HKH mass is the cause for the extension of creana marginalis of the coffin bone.
Our conclusion is that the continued development of various types of footwear and various trimmingProposed techniques over the past ten years, responsible for an increase in the development of the HKH mass, and the resulting black hole seedy toe. To promote the adoption of the proposed techniques most dramatic decline in the tilt, which lead to incorrect positioning of the coffin bone can within the hoof capsule. There are a number of factors, which have surfaced, many of which are the result of improper trimming.
What all this means for those of you who have been chosen to go without shoes, with yourHorse is that they close look at the way your horse should be trimmed.
Here are some tips that can help in preventing mass growth, and can help stabilize an existing state aid.
Aggressive roll at the top of the wall should be avoided. Do not dub the wall or rockering the toe in or palmar to the white line.
Avoid road runs coffin bones.
Never reduce the heels to the viable (live alone) at the corner of the bar / wall (oftenResults in the ground parallel coffin bone).
Among the heels do not run a radical break justify the placement.
Treatment of black hole seedy toe with current solutions or draws will do little to resolve the problem.
Balance should be removed and freed another cause of stress, this does not mean excessive removal of material at the top.
Bringing these new insights to trim questioning Universal Sole theory Trim Natural Balance, and any other method that can disrupt this balance, so thatStress at the office of creana marginalis (head of the coffin bone).
There is much to do more studies. Immunology studies are in progress, and further investigations into the cause of the HKH mass is in progress.
