Puckshott Farm

28/03/2022

WE ARE NO LONGER TAKING LIVERIES

01/11/2019

Tendons 👏need 👏to 👏be 👏kept👏cool👏
And yes I’m well aware of protection v static jumps in XC blah blah but 90% of the time these are put on with no thought reason or purpose then when the tendon shows damage it’s “something he did out in the field”

We learnt all about this here too many years ago to remember, and subsequently upcycled boots and wraps for other uses. The only time to consider boots, and specific boots that heat as minimally as possible, is for protection whilst jumping (Show jumping, Cross country) against the poles etc.

If you think overreach boots are a necessity in most cases it is a need to rethink the horses hoof care or training.

Tendon damage begins to occur at 43 degrees C and by 48 degrees C sustained for 10mins it’s 80% cell death

https://equimanagement.com/.amp/articles/horse-skin-temperature-under-boots-after-exercise?fbclid=IwAR1xJc7sPL8_0dgQKXcMMBhKOihkHA1KbHXWGfJtzGKpSTu2fTP-AfPUl98

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8f15/0ea480edca142260d01f419f80d2e7e7fb29.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0WyMQoVr9Cur38Sk0wDXOZNrCNUcATqtKJRjuzui5qWBM3JItzvkysiC4

19/10/2019

Shoes add structure to a hoof. They’re an external artificial support. I’m not debating whether or not you need that support here. What I’m saying is that a lameness is within the horse. Shoes are inert and external. Applying them to the hoof, might make a lame horse useable, but it doesn’t make him sound. It makes him a lame horse with shoes on.

Artificial support structures are amazing things. Have you ever broken a bone? The pain levels drop considerably once you have a cast put on. Not to mention how well you can use a broken limb when it’s inside a cast. The limb inside is still broken though. Healing – for sure, but broken and useable.

Now it takes 6 weeks to heal a broken bone (maybe a little longer for very complicated fractures). By sheer coincidence 6 weeks is also about the time a set of shoes lasts for. Has your horse’s lameness healed in the 6 weeks between shoeings or not? If not, you still have a lame horse with a shoe nailed to the bottom of it, and you still need a plan to fix that lameness.

19/10/2019

🤔 Shoeing vs Barefoot - 10 differences

1. A ‘sound’ shod horse, which is lame (crippled) out of shoes, is not sound. A sound barefoot horse is....sound!

2. A shod horse will experience elevated unnatural concussive forces. A barefoot horse will experience natural concussive forces.

3. A shod horse’s foot can be distorted, contracted, elongated by the shoe. A barefoot horse’s foot can be honed, conditioned, strengthened by the earth.

4. Nails perpetually pe*****te, fragment & destroy horn tubules. No nails in a barefoot horse’s foot = strong healthy tubules.

5. Metal attached to the hoof conducts both heat & cold, unnaturally altering the temperature of the hoof. Barefoot hooves are naturally affected by fluctuations on the ground.

6. Shoes can mask serious low grade laminitic symptoms, by covering the WL & ‘creating’ artificial soundness. Barefoot horses show signs & symptoms of laminitis much earlier.

7. Metal shoes can wear razor thin in just a few weeks. Organic Bare hooves never wear off.

8. Shoes interrupt natural proprioception. Barefoot horses have natural heightened proprioception.

9. Metal on tarmac slips, extra traction in the form of road nails/studs are often needed. Bare hooves experience no traction issues on tarmac roads.

10. A shod hoof cannot respond to its environment, resulting in a failure in the feedback loop of formation & destruction of horn. Bare hooves respond naturally to their environment by finding equilibrium/balance between formation & destruction of horn.

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25/09/2019

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21/08/2019

Quite a few years ago, I was idling away some time reading the then-current issue of The Chronicle of the Horse magazine (a weekly sport-horse publication). While skimming a pretty dry article abou…

04/07/2019

Strange sky over the farm

04/07/2019

Time for a refill!

04/07/2019