RootsnWings Equine Services

07/22/2024

Very dry. Please soak feet. Mud puddle works great.

07/22/2024

04/30/2024

It's the dry time of year again although not today. Ha. Time to help your trimmer/farrier by soaking your horses' hooves for at least 30 mins before they arrive. The feet are hard and dry currently.

12/16/2023

Merry Christmas to all my clients, friends and followers. May each and everyone find joy and peace this season!!

10/31/2023

Thank you to all my clients who have been patient with me the last couple weeks. I really appreciate everyone's kindness and understanding.

07/20/2023

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=656989823118036&id=100064210710046&mibextid=Nif5oz

SO YOU ARE GETTING TOLD BY PEOPLE THAT YOU SHOULD SHOE YOUR HORSE,JUST GET THEM TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS 😊😉

1.How do nails heal hoof capsules?
2.A healthy hoof grows at 1cm/month,so every month you re shoe the horse and have to rebalance the hoof, how does this repetitive process heal joints?
3.You nail a solid metal shoe to a flexible hoof capsule,so engages the whole hoof wall constantly, how does this not add concussion?
4.Raise heels or use bar shoes,how does this increase or aid blood perfusion?
5.If you have a mediolateral imbalance,how does a nailed on metal shoe not worsen the situation and cause further strain on tendons, ligaments and joints?

03/03/2023

New Swedish research on the difference between shod horse hooves and barefoot hooves has finally concluded: Barefoot hooves can move 50% more than hooves that are shod with traditional horseshoes. That, and other findings from the study, helps to explain why horses can improve their performance by g...

12/15/2022

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. This year if you're feeling overwhelmed, inadequate, unsuccessful or glum in any shape or form, remember life isn't about perfection. Take it easy on yourself. Today as every day you are exactly enough.
Enjoy your seasonin any way you can!

12/13/2022

10/22/2022

A funny to enjoy your day

10/04/2022

If the white line is like any of the pictures after the first one, then there is something wrong in the diet, general health, not enough movement or a combination of all three.

Over feeding and lack of movement are the biggest causes of pathology in equines.

If you want to get advice from nutritionists then make sure that they have physically seen your equine first and examined their hooves and body weight, without understanding the connection between the hooves and the digestive system it is a waste of time jumping from one feed bag to another.

09/18/2022

Today, I picked up a foot and stared at it for a minute, thinking about all the ways the hoof had changed since the last appointment. How did the foot adapt to the way I trimmed the toe? Did the bars grow in straighter than last time? Were the heels less underrun this time around?

I know I have written posts before about how hoofcare at times can be trial and error - did the horse like it or not? - and how not every horse reads the textbook for what should work for their particular issue. But it's also important to note how much the foot tells us at the end of a cycle as well.

Sometimes I think of trimming as a conversation. We suggest something to the foot, and then wait for the foot to respond and tell us what it thinks. Then we adjust our approach as needed. It's often a back-and-forth each cycle that changes with the seasons, metabolic issues, illnesses, environment changes, etc.

No two trims, even on the same horse, are ever truly the same, and that's not a bad thing. It involves adjusting to what the foot needs at the time.

Hoofcare is often about being flexible and willing to change as the foot tells us to.