Its very important to take care of your horses hoofs, their is a1000lb on four little feet .Those of us that believe in barefoot the natural of horse care. I ran across article that i thank it is wrath it wait and reading.
The Barefoot Paradigm by Yvonne Welz
Why it is high time for Team Barefoot!
The common golden thread that binds
together the originators of the barefoot
movement is the premise that when we
undertake the responsibility of removing iron
shoes from our horses’ lives, we change everything
about the way we THINK and CARE for
these horses.
But hold on a moment—just what is a “barefoot
horse” in the first place? And what defines a
“barefoot horseowner?” Believe it or not, these
are two questions that deserve a great deal more
reflection.
Horses were born barefoot. There is nothing
magical about that whatsoever! This is one of the
concepts that naysayers of barefoot like to point
out—after all, pull the shoes on any horse, and
you’ve got a barefoot one, right? Wrong!
Likewise, if you own a horse that isn’t wearing
shoes at the moment, well, that alone really does
not make you a “barefooter.”
When we talk about a “barefoot horse” or a
“barefoot owner” in the modern context, we
reference a very specific paradigm. A paradigm
is “a philosophical or theoretical framework.”
Without fully understanding this paradigm,
communicating with others about “barefoot”
can become a very frustrating ordeal. So exactly
what is the barefoot paradigm?
Now I’m stepping up to the plate here, to add my
perspective. What qualifies me to define the barefoot
paradigm? I believe I have held a distinctly
unique point of view over the development of the
barefoot movement during the past 12 years. I’ve
been able to communicate extensively with vast
numbers of hoofcare professionals, farriers, vets,
trimmers, students, and horseowners, representing
just about every single barefoot method and
organization that exists. I have watched horses
rehabbed through barefoot both in person, and
long distance through various communications
with so many owners and trimmers from different
backgrounds all over the world. I have researched
and studied all available information about barefooted
horses. In the end, what stuns me most is
how similar all the disparate information is—just
how much in common the various and competing
“methods” have with each other. In the end, there
truly is simply one single Barefoot Paradigm.
TO BE CONTINUED
The Barefoot Paradigm by Yvonne Welz
Why it is high time for Team Barefoot!
The common golden thread that binds
together the originators of the barefoot
movement is the premise that when we
undertake the responsibility of removing iron
shoes from our horses’ lives, we change everything
about the way we THINK and CARE for
these horses.
But hold on a moment—just what is a “barefoot
horse” in the first place? And what defines a
“barefoot horseowner?” Believe it or not, these
are two questions that deserve a great deal more
reflection.
Horses were born barefoot. There is nothing
magical about that whatsoever! This is one of the
concepts that naysayers of barefoot like to point
out—after all, pull the shoes on any horse, and
you’ve got a barefoot one, right? Wrong!
Likewise, if you own a horse that isn’t wearing
shoes at the moment, well, that alone really does
not make you a “barefooter.”
When we talk about a “barefoot horse” or a
“barefoot owner” in the modern context, we
reference a very specific paradigm. A paradigm
is “a philosophical or theoretical framework.”
Without fully understanding this paradigm,
communicating with others about “barefoot”
can become a very frustrating ordeal. So exactly
what is the barefoot paradigm?
Now I’m stepping up to the plate here, to add my
perspective. What qualifies me to define the barefoot
paradigm? I believe I have held a distinctly
unique point of view over the development of the
barefoot movement during the past 12 years. I’ve
been able to communicate extensively with vast
numbers of hoofcare professionals, farriers, vets,
trimmers, students, and horseowners, representing
just about every single barefoot method and
organization that exists. I have watched horses
rehabbed through barefoot both in person, and
long distance through various communications
with so many owners and trimmers from different
backgrounds all over the world. I have researched
and studied all available information about barefooted
horses. In the end, what stuns me most is
how similar all the disparate information is—just
how much in common the various and competing
“methods” have with each other. In the end, there
truly is simply one single Barefoot Paradigm.
TO BE CONTINUED
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