On May 5, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Judy Ryder wrote: > Any input on this? > > http://icehorses.blogspot.com/2008/05/ground-parallel-coffin-bone.html >
I got into a discussion about this on one of the barefoot lists some years back. The contention was that unless a horse was trimmed by their methods designed especially to keep the coffin bone ground parallel and then kept barefoot, the horse wouldn't stay sound and would have a variety of hoof problems. My horses had been trimmed all along by "regular" farriers who paid careful attention to balancing the hoof, had often been shod after a balanced trim, and had 300 to 1700 miles in distance competitions (depending on the horse), were sound, and had never had an abscess or other hoof problem. I finally took my main competition horse (shod) over to the vet and had an x-ray taken of a front foot. The coffin bone was as close to ground parallel as the xray could resolve, just with competent farrier work based on hoof balance (http://www.horseshoes.com/advice/balancingnormalfoot/ balancingnormalfoot.htm). Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/ http://www.dslextreme.com/~napha/HighPoint/
