21/01/2022
I recently had a day when I had an almost identical conversation with 2 different clients, one after the other. It got me thinking about why we keep our horses the way we do.
The gist of the conversation was this…
It started when I commented how pleased I was with how well their horses hooves had improved.
In both cases they said ‘I don’t know why. I’ve been away, I’ve hardly seen them never mind done anything with them’
But the thing was, in both cases we had made sure that we’d created an environment that promotes good health and strong hooves.
They had systems in place that meant the environment was doing a lot of the work for them, so it didn’t matter that they’d had some time off. The systems were still working.
Neither client had a track system or anything complicated or expensive like that. They’d just made sure they were doing the best they could with what they had.
🔹️ Like providing forage and nutrition that suited their horses and their yard.
🔹️ Making sure their horse’s were functioning as well as possible, so the hooves were being strengthened not weakened.
🔹️Removing any ‘blocks’ that were causing stress on the body rather than promoting health.
The horses needs were different and the facilities each yard had varied, but by monitoring the horse’s responses and making appropriate changes we were able to design a system that suited not only them, but the whole herd.
Once the right system was in place, it felt like ‘they were hardly doing anything’. It was just normal for them, so it was easy to forget that they were in fact working towards improving their horses. They were just working smarter, not harder.
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