Posted by Ralph Davis on March 09, 2003 at 15:53:06:
As an experiment I have been trimming all my clients barefoot drafthorses the same as I do light horses with a natural balance trim. They all tell me the feet have never looked better.
This leads me to believe that I may want to modify my draft horse shoeing as well. I currently, as we all do in this area, use Kerkhart draft shoes with toe clips. In order to get breakover semi-correct we routinely nipper a huge groove in the front of the foot and then rasp the heck out of the dorsal wall. Would it not make more sense to use an Anvil draft shoe without clips,blunt the toe some and set it back kinda in a natural balance style.
I am considering trying this but .... I'm worried that drafts might always need toe clips to keep the nails from shearing off.
What do you all think?
TIA
Ralph