Natural Hoof Care Terms
A lot of horse owners these days are moving towards doing their own barefoot trimming. Below are some natural hoof care terms that are always good to know when looking to start doing your own hoof...
Mariah, Your Equinista
Making the transition from maintaining the traditionally shod horse to a holistic, barefoot/booted one may seem like a leap of faith for the common horse owner. The practice of natural horse care is immense...
Tex and His Easyboots
Renee and Tex with the Easyboot Rx.The first time I heard from Renee was a very desperate telephone call saying that her horse, Tex, had foundered.Since that time, Renee has transitioned Tex to barefoot...
Transition Tuesday Returns
Back By Popular Demand
It sounds a bit tacky to say it, but I've been receiving quite a few requests over the last month to reinstate the Transition Tuesday blog posts I was writing for EasyCare....
Is a Booted Horse Barefoot?
I had the opportunity to attend the Functional Hoof Australian Conference last week in Melbourne Australia. The conference was packed with speakers that know the horse and the really know the equine hoof. The...
Horse Hoof Confirmation
Horse Hoof Conformation ... interesting article I found at www.localriding.com!Horse hoof conformation is the result of the 50-million-year evolution of the horse.Both wild and domesticated species share a similar hoof shape and function and...
Bringing Up Baby. Or, Lord, Give Me Strength.
Last summer, I got the crazy idea in my head that I wanted to raise a youngster to be my next superstar endurance/dressage horse. Yay! My very own baby to raise and start and...
Fitting Zahara’s Spare Part
Submitted by Stacey Maloney, Team Easyboot 2012 MemberLast summer my Competitive Trail Riding prospect, Zahara, broke my heart when she suffered a pretty bad heel bulb laceration - twice. Instead of spending the summer...
The Healing Power of Barefoot featured in Equus Magazine
Congratulations to Barefoot trimmer and EasyCare dealer, Karen Reeves of Keno, OR. whose work was recently featured in Equus Magazine. The magazine ran a nice article titled Healing a Hoof Crack, "A Hoof Made Whole". Karen as many of you already know...
The Frog: Bare Vs Shod
I rode a few horses barefoot the other day and out on the trail I ran into some hoof prints of a horse that was clearly wearing shoes. As I looked at the hoof...