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02/15/2025

02/13/2025

About Scootboot TheraRide The Scootboot TheraRide is the most innovative hoof boot on the planet. By combining therapeutic support with the rideability of our Scootboot Classic, your horse can enjoy additional support, even after they’ve healed. The Scootboot TheraRide offers the ability for hoof ...

01/29/2025

Name change fir the Scoot Boot Enduro!!
It is now the Scoot Boot Adjust.

Big news! 📣 The Scootboot Enduro is officially being renamed to the Scootboot Adjust!

We wanted the name to truly reflect what this boot is all about—maximum customisation, unrivalled adjustability, and the freedom to adapt to every ride.

Same boot you love, just a new name!

🐴 No cables or Velcro
🐴 Adjustable bulb and mud straps
🐴 Lightweight, tough & built for traction
🐴 Coloured strap options for extra flair

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01/28/2025

01/21/2025

As everyone is preparing for this artic blast that is happening all across this country, here is a good podcast for equine management for wintsr time! 🤪

Podcast Episode · The Equine Connection Podcast · 09/11/2024 · 17m

01/08/2025

I first became aware of barefoot loading patterns about 20 years ago from looking at the wild horse studies done by Jamie Jackson and Gene Ovniceck that showed us how mustangs develop ground contact points. This establishes a series of points and arches that suspend the horse over 3-4 ground contact points per foot. These contact points are created from miles of daily wear over varied terrain.

I quit using steel shoes years ago and since then I’ve been working on BUILDING contact points on domestic horse hooves by simulating adequate miles of wear. This isn’t just carving the feet to preconceived contact points like the “4 Point Trim” suggested. If you just don’t let dead wall, frog, and sole accumulate, the hoof capsules eventually conform to the internal structures without deviation. This establishes a fully live undeviated hoof capsule within a couple of years, no matter how much movement the horse gets.

The pillars and arches are natural structural components in every hoof. They just collapse and disappear when the hooves get overgrown and retain dead horn. If horses can wear and build their hooves on their own, given enough acreage, then that wear can be simulated by trimming that respects the individual anatomy and stage of development of each individual hoof.

When this type of trimming is done accurately over time, the result is a fully live well developed hoof capsule with the arches and points in the right places. No movement needed. That’s the part that people get hung up on. I’m not saying that horses don’t need movement. I’m saying that their biomechanics don’t require movement to build their hooves from flat to concave, and it should never be carved.

The horse’s posture improves when you take the correct amount of dead horn off in just the right places. The improved posture sets the weight bearing more accurately over the digital cushion, which thrives from use ( weight bearing ). As the horse shifts more weight back over the heels that are now supported by the DC, the weight comes off of the sole…the sole thrives on suspension. That’s how you use the horse’s weight for them instead of against them to build soft tissue and live sole and that elevation is how you improve their PA and HPA sustainably.

If you try to improve the posture by improving the angles first, there is no digital cushion to support the horse so the joints, tendons, and ligaments have to compensate. That causes irreversible damage that shows up months or years later. This is why I’m against flat trimming for angles, steel shoes, and/or wedge pads.

After almost 20 years of restoring live internal elevation to flat dead footed horses ( all ages, breeds, and sizes ), these are the common issues that I’ve noticed:

The drawing on the left shows the damage that I’ve observed on the inside of a hoof that’s been trimmed flat, steel shod and/or wedged. Horses with better conformation resist the damage better, as do horses that aren’t subjected to these practices.

- lower position of extensor process
- bone erosion commonly seen in these 3 areas ( dotted white lines )
- jammed up frog and digital cushion from dead heel buttresses ( correlating to bone erosion at the back of the palmar processes )
- withered lateral cartilages
- jammed up bars ( not shown ) ( correlating to bone erosion on the middle of the palmar processes )
- jammed up solar corium ( correlating to bone loss along the tip of P3 and the Coronary Band / Extensor process relationship )

The drawing on the right shows how the internal structures should look when the arches and points are respected and built over time.

01/05/2025

Are you looking to give your horse an extra treat (or two) this holiday season? 🐎🎁 Well, look no further! Here is an excellent recipe from the Equine Cushing’s and Insulin Resistance group with an NSC of 2.4%—perfect for horses with metabolic concerns. You can even add salt to help keep your horse hydrated during the chilly winter months. ❄️🌾

✨ Remember, all treats should be fed in moderation.

Try making these at home and let us know what your horse thinks! 🥕💚

01/01/2025

🥳 Happy New Year!!

12/30/2024

12/22/2024

I am excited for this new boot that Scoot Boot has coming out!! If anyone needs sizing help let me know and I can get them ordered in for you!! 🥰

Coming Soon: The TheraRide Introducing the Scootboot TheraRide, the first therapeutic hoof boot designed for both therapy and riding! Join The Waitlist Why Choose The TheraRide? The Scootboot TheraRide is the world's most revolutionary hoof boot designed for both therapy and riding. It's the ideal s...

12/22/2024

Important Reminder!!

A real healthy reminder about sawdust and BLACK WALNUT!
Last night a client with a boarding barn went to unload sawdust. Thank god they knew what black walnut looked like and immediately recognized it! They called the saw mill to check there suspicions and it was confirmed......black walnut had been processed that day.

Horses can be affected by black walnut if shavings made from the tree are used in bedding. As little as 20% black walnut in shavings or sawdust can cause clinical signs within hours of contact. Effects of exposure primarily affect the lower limb and include stocking up, stiff gait, and reluctance to move. If untreated, toxicosis can progress and cause colic, swelling of the neck and chest, elevated heart and respiratory rate, and even laminitis and founder.

She literally saved 10 horses from this fate and dodged a bullet!!!!!

12/18/2024

12/14/2024

12/11/2024

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