What is NATURAL hoof care?
There are several schools of thought throughout the world today promoting natural hoof care for domestic horses. Some claim specific hoof wall and hairline angles are necessary, other say naturalness is attained with special horseshoes; they can all vary to extensive degrees. But, true Natural Hoof Care for domestic horses uses the wild mustang foot as its model and understand horse’s hooves can be as different as people’s feet. The wild mustang hoof has no human intervention and therefore can, without reservation, be called the truth; the way the horse’s foot is supposed to be. domestic horses and wild horses are not genetically different; all are anatomically, physiologically and psychologically the same. Natural hoof care is a process and is not intended as a one-time trim or quick fix to hoof problems.
