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Use & Abuse of Information

As I read through magazine articles and websites I find numerous scientific studies quoted supported the barefoot and natural trim and denouncing horseshoes and traditional farrier practices.  Seldom, if ever, will any of these articles reference studies that have findings opposed to the studies quoted, and often they will only quote small portions of studies taking [...]

Wild Trim or Just Wild Thinking

I started this blog quite a while ago and like most blogs on the web, have not taken the time to update it regularly.  A horse I recently came across though has prompted me to get back on the horse “so to speak” and make a sincere effort to help people really understand their horses [...]

Not just another all natural, all barefoot blog!

I recently got irritated enough at the misrepresentation of information in a magazine article on barefoot trimming that I wrote a letter to the editor.  The article use a thermographic image of a horses leg and the caption stated that the image showed just how a shoe blocks the energy flow in a horses leg.  [...]