--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> OK what is a mustang roll?<<
Jaime Jackson named it for the wild horses and how their hooves look and self trim in the wild. The outer edge is "rolled" so there is nothing to catch, chip, break, and flare when they walk. A mustang travels at least 20 miles a day foraging for food and water, so they wear their feet and create a rolled edge that Jaime Jackson named the mustang roll. Since my new barefoot trimmer has started doing the mustang roll, I've noticed that my horse's hooves have tighened up, especially my TWH mare, Raven, who has had "platter feet". Those feet were not natural,but caused by flare and that is why she was always ouchey on gravel even tho her hoof wall is hard as a rock. The flare is where the hoof wall seperates, creating the "fingernail pulling away from the nail bed" and of course they are owey. The mustang roll helps stop and elinimate the pattern of growth, seperation and flare. Susan in NV Nevermore Ranch http://users.oasisol.com/nevermore/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz
