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#slcfarms #horses #barefoothorse Trimming a horses feet.

Feb 27, 2020
Hey guys, we're Bryant SLC Farms, so today we're here with Moe, one of our

horses

, and we're getting his legs trimmed. I thought I'd bring you in to show you a little bit how we do it and then. Next, we will make his partner clear and fix both of their

feet

. These are two border

horses

and they will be visiting her owner for a while while she is in town and I said we are going to get the Cut off her

feet

, clean them and take them to her house. Well, guys, remember that you liked this video.
slcfarms horses barefoothorse trimming a horses feet
Like it, leave us a comment, tell us what you think, subscribe to our channel, bring that notification spell so you know. when we post more videos, then let's start here so we have Moe Moe, a Kentucky mountain horse, he's a pretty good size horse and we'll start here with the feet of him. I do it very differently than most farriers. Just because of my previous back problems and I know my horse is doing pretty well, I iced him when I clipped him because he just helps my back a little bit instead of having to lift the horse's leg.
slcfarms horses barefoothorse trimming a horses feet

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I have a small rolling power tool. Yeah love is here let's make sure everything is okay so we have some tools here that we use so our first tool is a hoof pick that we use just to clean the hooves and get all the dirt out and breathe out of there. I have a couple of hoof knives here, we use them to trim off frog soles, any dead surface material, that sort of thing. I have a pair of pliers here, we use them to trim the hoof wall and that kind of thing, and then. our final step we use a file and go over everything to clean it up really good, first step here let's ask, my lift is with the foot here, let's make sure everyone can do things that work, so in the UK we have There's a lot of mud in the breeze, so we'll take this photo here.
slcfarms horses barefoothorse trimming a horses feet
Let's clean all this stuff. It just rained here last night again. I don't hate cutting the weather right now. Afternoon thunderstorms are quite common this time of year and just don't do it. I don't want to risk getting our hay rained on, so just grab this hoof pick and clean up all that good stuff. Telmo stretches out a little, I'm sure he got a cut, so we'll grab our hoof knife here, just to clean up. your sole here what we're cutting is called a bar, we just make it flush with the bottom of the sole and we don't really remove any sole, we remove any dead or callous surfaces that kind of stuff and just a Essentially, it sums up what we're doing here.
slcfarms horses barefoothorse trimming a horses feet
The hoof knife and then the frog. Well, that's the frog, the boy remembered, each horse has its own heart and they call that frog. The horse's heartbeat every time you put your foot all the way down, the pressure goes against that frog and that creates the force of the blood coming back into the hoof, so now we. grab our tweezers here, let's get our foot in here a lot of times you'll get that kind of thing and they have to fly over them they want to stomp on that fly something like that, especially in the summer, you can Hear stomping your feet and just wagging their tails and all you know is that a horse is a very sensitive animal.
Many people think they have been kicked and use different methods or devices to make it listen, but you know a horse can. I feel a fly landing on their back just like we do and they're usually probably a little more sensitive than us so hey you can say we've got the hoof wall freshly roughed and trimmed we'll use our file to clean it up that. So far we haven't shot any of the horses here on the farm, which we don't really ride enough to justify the extra expense. I don't like it, I'm not a big fan of steel shoes.
I have boots for my horses, it's like a Nike that we would wear for running, so if we ride in places where the horse is really rocky or rough terrain, the horses will get going, but most of the time, where we ride. They don't really need anything Barefoot is all they need everyone stays pretty healthy hood this guy here is an adult lemonade of course he can't have grass and things of that nature around the tip wall, like the shape of an egg , anything rounded versus square, will be structurally stronger now will naturally round the wall of their hooves as they walk also terrain slopes, which is called stretched white line, the source always has, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if you had he has a special diet or like here, he only eats hay, they just don't have much grass, he still has that stretched white line, so we're trimmed at the bottom, now pick that up, throwing the helmet here and put it on the hood and see if I can take them all where they can see what I'm doing, maybe put it here like this, now we're going to clean up the outside and get that player out.
We take off from the bottom and this is the step where most guys take their first look. The Bahr fish, quite sandy, polish it, we don't do any of that, it comes back out of the mud and just like that, you have a complete one. Hoof, let's sit him on the ground, there he'll let you take a good look at him. I'll try to zoom in so there's a trimmed hoof, oops, and there's an untrimmed hoof, let's see if I can get it to square up a little. Here we go TV. You can tell the difference nice and clear, one compares to this one, so let's move on to the next side and take care of how those are.
Stan has a couple of magnets holding our file, our hoof pliers, so he's clearly there.

trimming

a hoof for me she's an impatient horse now they'll say and they'll go no hooks no horse and it's a very, very true statement purpose to scrape all this dirt out of here now so I don't throw away my files knives things that make us Just clean up this soul here a little bit, such sloppy, horrible stuff, throw it back in there, get rid of your frog, that's why it looks like this and then just go around to make sure we don't have any.
My hand gets in the way. try to keep it out of the way, you have a good mouth, clean well here, a little Toad cows there in the front, now we just take our tweezers, start here in the middle, come on, month, I usually don't fight with them like that. Bad, I used to do this full time and until having back surgery forced me to stop doing it full time. I still do a few horses here and there, plus all my own, but I used to do about two hundred and fifty. some odd horses turn every five, about every five or six weeks in rotation, just like farming, ferry transport is hard work, honest, definitely takes a toll on the joints, some knees going back, hips, all that good stuff , yeah, we're bouncing around here, a lot of traditional stuff. fairs with certificates the way I do this but I would say as long as we get to the same end result and the horses are healthy and happy then we will do well in the end if you are blaming the horses and causing problems like that I definitely don't suggest doing this , but I will get on each of these horses, free them and ride them, firm believer in good natural bounce, barefoot, dreaming about us, talking on the bus, you good people, good schools, we are just kind of putting a nice roll up wall there, I use four files in total.
GE tweezers were quite successful over the years. This is a spine cut on one side, drifts well on the other. I continued that role. It doesn't reach the top in the shape of an egg, it is much stronger in the shape of a box or square, so there you have it complete all the way to the bottom and that's it, standing on a pile of dirt and filling another, plus the dogs love it trim the hooves, he is a great dog. free treats, let's do it back, feet back tend to be a little, yeah, there's more of us, no, you can't think like my arms in the way, what I'm doing, but I'm just trying to do something, there's a deer calcareous which is dead soul was what you would call that so I'm getting that dead soul out of there going back to the living soul there's a rock and like I say it's cleaning this rolled up a little so the dream got up a lot bias of the foot.
I was treating that knock six or seven weeks ago somewhere there and they made me there Lily, you don't want me to be an adult, keep them in the city and there you go see if knocking on the door would be good. work, I hope I'm sitting now, well, move over here, I've got it all done, little Mo is a good boy, yeah, he's pretty good, the old horse will miss you, my eyes will be gone for about a month, but he'll be back, the guys remember if you liked it. this video and you want to see more subscribe to our channel and press the notifications so you know when we publish new videos thanks for watching

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