--- SHERREL LEININGER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What Sally and I do for horses with farrier trauma is this, and > it > > has always worked so far, but timing is a lot of it. > > > > We use food, little small little tiny bites of food. > > What food/treat are you giving? Sherrel
Well it is different for every horse. Some horses who are in stalls, and get full fed and who get to go out and do arena work daily, tiny bits of fresh grass work great.. Other than that it is what the owner has availible and what the horse will respond to. One horse we do only gets sweetened grain when we come...so he gets little tiny pieces when his foot is up and never when it is down or he is pulling away. We have been doing this horse for 3 years...he does not really need it anymore so he gets food afterward. Others with little bits of a cube, which is a popular food source on the island, before I came here I never saw an alfalfa cube. We have used baby carrots, they are easier to break off into tiny pieces than big carrots....Whatever the horse really likes and will respond to. Anything that works and gets him chewing and thinking about something else..... Storme ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
