Barefoot

Thumbing through a Performance Horse Magazine, you can imagine the smile on my face when I saw this photo of a reiner without front shoes.  My how fast things are changing!I predict we will see...

Well we have had several days of rain this week and our pastures are muddier than I have ever seen them. Then the sun came out and they graded the roads and they are...

I have been using Old Macs for my horse for years, first after a severe founder and, then again, after a laminitis issue from this crazy winter on the ice, which resulted in a...

We had a meeting at EasyCare yesterday and the topic was on blogging. We were all discussing topics, grammar, spacing etc. and it was mentioned that we needed to put one space after our periods at the end...

I don't think many can argue that keeping your horse barefoot is not a commitment. Anyone who has done this for any length of time will have had set-backs, successes, failures, epiphanies and triumphs....

Last October (2009,) a friend and I rode trail 11 from Twin Buttes TH to Horseshoe Dam. We camped about a mile or two down the road from the official TH. This was as...

Second Time's a Charm This is actually the fifth horse I've transitioned, but I hope you'll forgive the stretch in the subheading. The first four horses were all transitioned at about the same time in...

Written by EasyCare Marketing Associate Sydney Segal Have you ever thought about pulling your horse's shoes, but you don't know where to start? I was recently in your shoes (no pun intended). Here...

Barefoot performance makes front page headlines of the Quarter Horse News magazine with "Try it Shoeless".The November issue of Quarter Horse News features a fantastic article interviewing three high profile competitors who each speak to their...

Why can it sometimes take months for a horse to transition to barefoot? Why is the horse that was “perfectly sound” in shoes tender-footed without them? Why is shoeing so entrenched in our current equine management...