August 14, 2009
Pick Up Your Feet
Six things to keep in mind when picking up your horse’s feet. You ALWAYS double check the tack, the clasps and cinches before you ride, but have you ever skipped the hoof check? Your horse always has the same manure or sand packed in under the hoof and you have scraped it out countless times while your horse leans all of his weight in your hand. Or, perhaps you fight to get that hoof high enough to look underneath and every time, your horse jerks it out of your grasp to stomp on to the ground. Is it defiance? Is it refusal? Is it uncomfortable to stand on three legs when he has four?
