Hot Dirty Barefoot Trimmer Hoofcare Products and Services

10/06/2025

Not made by me but ⬇️⬇️⬇️

10/02/2025

09/21/2025

Sometimes you just need a little dissection CE and collaboration with other other HCPs working in the trenches to reset.

09/08/2025

It was a busy weekend for 'jamming 🙈🙈🙈🙈

Everything was shipped this morning outside of a handful of samples already marked for another event and a clinic 🙃

08/28/2025

My usual late night excitement while the horses eat 😂😂😂

08/20/2025

Oliver and Ellie have graduated to Walmart greeter status! They are usually up in their little paddock, but were left out this morning and met me at the gate. They have recently been following me out to the gate after I finish their trims and release them, so I figured they were close to achieving this milestone. 👏👏👏 yay Ellie and Oliver!!

08/01/2025

Prime examples of the Walmart greeter style donkey that I am happy to solo on:

08/01/2025

Let's talk about diets for a second.

No, this foot isnt perfect - I suspect thin soles and occasional bouts of laminitis due to PPID or something underlying but!!!

He is out on native grass. Not heavily fertilized for a fancy lawn grass, but actual native grass pasture. He gets 0 grain. (For inticement when I come out, he is caught up with a box of cheerios...but thats literally all he gets treat wise, 8 times a year). When we had all the rain last month, he stood around in a heavily saturated pasture for weeks on end. Your shoes got soaked just walking out in it, and it wasn't muddy. Just...very moist.

Body condition wise he goes between a 4 and 6, depending on the time of year and his grass availability.

Alot of people blame thrush on wet conditions. Most horses are not in conditions as wet as he was. What does he not have? He doesn't have any thrush. He doesn't have white line disease. He looks pretty solid foot wise living in those conditions.

There is certainly something to be said about a quality, forage based diet. He could probably benefit from a ration balancer and that would help tighten things up, but I'm okay with where he is at 🥰

07/31/2025

All I can say is - the very best donkey clients have track systems OR dry lots and species appropriate diets (hay, straw and a ration balancer, and loose salt and clean water- NOT GRASS OR SWEET FEED OR...*shudders* ALL STOCK) for their donks. Or, if that's not possible to do 24/7, they are muzzling them when they can or cycling them off the grassy pasture into smaller areas that are much closer to dry lots.

They keep their donkeys on an appropriate hoofcare schedule and don't push things because *they don't look bad* and have them caught up at the very least if they are hard to catch. I don't mind soloing, but I'm not traipsing around a large acreage after your donkeys - if they are that loose, they need to be the kind that meets me at my vehicle or comes when I call them (yes, I have quite a few that do this).

They work with their donkeys if there are any issues (kicking, etc) and treat them for thrush and any other issues (which they really shouldn't have much of if managed well.)

They have a donkey friend for their donkey (donkeys tolerate horses, but truly prefer donkey friends).

Pictured - excellent donkey clients track with her very good boys on it.

07/02/2025

Little 2 month old mini mule got his first trim last night - not super halter broke yet, but well handled and the owners have made foot handling a high priority, so he was a very good boy for his trim and he was naked for it!!! Good job owners 👏👏👏👏

Make foot handling a priority for your babies! Every day! Handled babies make good citizens!!!

06/16/2025

Thanks for the shoutout Ivy Starnes - Ivy's Glide Gait!!!

06/04/2025

This horse with butt cheeks and a cresty hard neck doesn't need to lose any weight, and there isn't much grass out here in her pasture, and she only gets OATS and her minerals for hard feed.

No.

This horse is heading for problems. The last farrier was dropped because the heels were "too long"....which makes me suspect she was having a laminitic flare up at that point based on the other factors involved 🙄

If your horse is obese and seems sore or off, and they are on grass or getting a lot of sugary starchy feed, please listen to your hoof care provider and make dietary changes if they suggest them. Most of us have a pretty good handle on nutrition and can help you put together a better diet for hoof help, or we can recommend someone who can.

**if you are already making diet changes, good job!!! We appreciate it**