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Posted on 10/04/2005 9:56:41 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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If she carries her head high, the trot would be rougher. They don't have to have their noses in the dirt, but you don't want them to have their heads up where to see you have to look around them:). If their head is up it hollows out their back.
I don't know if that is what she is doing, just a suggestion.
Becky
It was on the computer. It took awhile to load, we don't have DSL. About 5 minutes. I was just about to leave when I heard a "goodgirl" :)
Watched Bay's too:)
Becky
I sound so goofy ;~D Just tryin' to be encouraging :~D
Oops. I keep that head high for a reason :')
I don't think my shoer will have a problem. He pretty much will do what you aske him too, even if he doesn't agree. I am going to discuss it with him first, not just order him to do it:)
There is actually a name for the shape of the shoe. She told me to tell him to shape the shoes in a frog leg shape. The back of them will come straight out, on his back feet.
I did question Chris last week about the way Harley was walking. I could feel a difference, and I didn't care for it, it was a bit choppy. He said that was because we had shortened his stride. That I either had to live with the choppy stride, or risk the forgeing:). So he knows how to change a stride.
Becky
LOL.
Becky
Thank you :) They both move really nice, I wouldn't mind riding either one of them :)
I was thinking about a girl I use to ride with. She had a very long backed horse, that forged real bad. Her husband was somewhat of a farrier. He was always working to get the forging stopped, shortening the front toes, and that horse had a chronic sore back. The girl finally came to the conclusion that the horse wasn't really sore, he was just sensitve to being touched there. Now I'm wondering:
Becky
It'll be real interesting to see if trimming him differently solves it, and how long it takes... think it'd take more than one shoeing?
I wondered if, the way he is now, would he get backsore just moving in the pasture or on lunge, or is it the stride along with carrying weight that does it?
Ah - glad that worked!
It was just a bit of show and tell... :~D
Did you notice the sore back before or after you trimmed?
Thanks for the replies. I will have to go get some saddle soap....that will be my job this weekend. I really like the looks of that color you show.......maybe time for another saddle (lol)
We need an electric saddle washer. Still cleaning on my leather saddle. It is a slow go with leather cleaner first, then leather conditioner and finally saddle soap. An old toothbrush helps in some places.
Thanks for the replies. I will have to go get some saddle soap....that will be my job this weekend. I really like the looks of that color you show.......maybe time for another saddle (lol)
Heading to the Home and Garden show today.
Have a good weekend!
Heading to the Home and Garden show today.
Have a good weekend!
OOPS.
From what she says, it sounded like riding him makes it worse, because I'm sitting right where he has lost support. That a longer backed horse would sore up even with out a rider. She said if I hadn't caught the problem when I did it could have gotten so bad that all we could have done was pull his shoes and put him out to pasture for 6 months. She doesn't think it's that bad yet.
I think since his stride is still pretty good at the walk that moving around the pasture is not a problem. Right now his back foot is landing a good foot and half to 2 foot from where his front foot was. If you think about it, beings as he use to click at the trot, his stride is considerably shorter. She said to get him back forging again, then slowly back his stride off till it's right at the point where he doesn't click, or just leave it alone. The only reason to try to correct it would be the points I would loose at a ride, but I don't think I'm going to worry about that. It would only be 1 point, that's alot better then 12 from a sore back. I want to get his stride back to what is normal for him then leave him alone.
She also said about the length of time, it depends on how fast his feet grow, it could take several shoeings. Her recommendation was to add Knox Geletin to his feed to speed hoof growth.
Becky
I agree:)
If I have to get a new saddle, I told the saddle maker, I don't want any tooling:), it's so hard to clean. My poor ole saddle was in terrible shape last year before we went to that clinic. My son, God bless him, cleaned, oiled, and repaired everything before we left. I'm going to try to make it a practice to take in in the shop every year and let them clean and oil it. It's just to tedious for me:)
Becky
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