Living Requirements for the BAREFOOT HORSE

--Minimum of weekly "salads" giving in conjunction with hay. Include pumpkin seeds, shredded carrots, garlic and other substances that aid the gut in maintaining worm resistance. Include handful of whole corn to help keep the teeth naturally "floated". --Trees and/or shrubs (non-toxic, of course) to chew on. -- Simplify, simplify, simplify!!!

Horses are not complicated animals. They are not "stupid" animals. They have their own inherit survival skills to know what they need and will care nicely for themselves if given the opportunity to do so. This is not to mean, at all, that we should just throw our horses out in large acreages and forget about them although they would do very nicely if we were to do that. Many ranchers with vast acreage do just that for the winter time. However, there are few land barons left in this country in comparissuburban traditional surburban families.

Keeping the "natural, barefoot" horse, though, is possible even on a few acres of land. The keys to successfully taking the shoes off the horse andbare-hoovedem naturally bare-hooved are listed above. Combine those guidelines with correct, natural hoof trimming and your horse will blossom not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well.

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