BAREFOOT TRIM: Trimming a Horse with a TOE CRACK - Farrier ASMR

[@jenb8258]

I am trying to learn how to do my own barefoot trims and appreciate your explanations.

[@The_Female_Farrier]

Thank you for watching and for commenting! I am glad they have been helpful!

[@crystalriker4974]

Thank you for all the information. I love hearing why you do what you do!

[@The_Female_Farrier]

Thank you so much for watching and for the feedback! ❤️🙌🏻🙏🏻

[@denisewroblewski9444]

I appreciate how you handle horses. I've seen where some are very rough and take a lot of sole or frog off. Thank you for your wonderful talent

[@The_Female_Farrier]

Thank you so much! I was thinking about making a video discussing those topics. So many farriers take off too much sole and frog in my opinion.

[@jeannevera8672]

That is so great that you can feel the tension in the leg. It makes so much sense. It reminds me if the sing, the ankle bones connected to the leg bone, the leg bones connected to the hip bone.....

[@The_Female_Farrier]

Thank you for watching and for your comment!

[@ralphdavis955]

Thank you for sharing, Ma'am. Appreciated...

[@The_Female_Farrier]

My pleasure 😊! Thank you for watching!

[@LindaNiquette-vh5bx]

First time watching! Actually didn't know there are female farriers, not that there shouldn't be 😊. We are just as capable! You explain what you're doing which is helpful to me. Awesome ❤. Can tell you are very conscientious and thoughtful of the babies.

[@The_Female_Farrier]

Thank you for watching and for your comment!

[@hoofgirl31]

nice trims and explanations!!

[@bonniefranklin6097]

Well done.

[@The_Female_Farrier]

Thank you for watching and for your comment!

[@brentonkelly3780]

Good video, and great info. Love the explanations around the hind that you felt tension in....insightful. Well done

[@The_Female_Farrier]

Thank you!

[@myaccount2825]

Great job! Just curious what is the brand of hoof knives and rasps do you prefer? Also, with tow crack, did the healing hoof clay help heal the hole? We’ve had this happen on one of our horses a couple of times and I usually open the area up to try and get rid of the bacteria. I was told by my farrier that its “seedy toe” and that the bacteria will tunnel upward if it isn’t opened and let air get to it. If your hood putty works, that would make things so much easier. Thank you. :)

[@The_Female_Farrier]

My knives are all different brands. My favorite rasp is the heller legend green tang. If the crack is shallow I will treat with an antifungal. I the crack travels high up the hoof wall I will open it up. Sometimes air is best medicine.

[@LynnWelke]

Can you let me know the information on your hoof packing, I need some for my mare

[@The_Female_Farrier]

Here is a link to my website where I sell it! kristinthornberry.com/shop

[@maybecriminal]

thanks

[@The_Female_Farrier]

You are welcome!

[@kanehard1000]

Great video! How high do you leave the hoof wall above the sole

[@The_Female_Farrier]

Thank you! Depends on the horse!

[@skidaddle32]

Quick question: I have a horse whose left front foot is turning inward. Can I attempt to help correct that by ever so slightly making his lateral heel a tiny bit lower than his medial side? Just a couple more swipes with the rasp each time I trim him? I know I need to stay mindful that this is going to be an adjustment for his joints - therefore the term ‘ever so slightly’. TIA

[@The_Female_Farrier]

This is a hard one to answer without having my hands on the horse. When you pick up that leg and hold it under the horse look at the fetlock joint as it articulates. Does the leg stay straight as it bends? Or does the distal limb pivot to the outside or the inside? If it pivots to the inside your horse is pigeon toed and I wouldn’t try to correct it. If the leg bends straight and the hoof capsule is distorted then I would actually make my adjustment to the medial side of the hoof. This will shift the toe laterally. Hope that helps!

[@skidaddle32]

I finally got a good look. When I pick his foot up and hold it under him (me facing toward his back leg(s), his foot rotates in at the fetlock. Knee to fetlock is straight. When I got him 3 years ago, his two front feet were nice and straight. My vet said she thinks his trimmer is causing his foot to rotate inward. I can’t ride him due to pedal osteitis diagnosis - I just want to keep him as pasture sound and comfortable as possible. He is only 12 years old. TIA for suggestions.

[@The_Female_Farrier]

@@skidaddle32 sorry it’s just so hard to tell without pictures. Usually when it rotates in at the fetlock joint the horse is slightly pigeon toed and the hoof capsule is accentuating it. I have also seen horses that have pedal osteitis hit hard on the lateral side of the hoof and that wear pattern will make them appear pigeon toed. But it could be coming from how he is moving. If you haven’t already I would try putting him on short trim cycle to see if making small changes frequently brings him back into balance.

[@anniehope8651]

Can you please explain why you like to address the flare from the top and not so much from the bottom? It's basically thinning the wall. Is that beneficial? I'm seeing more people doing it and I'm just trying to understand.

[@The_Female_Farrier]

I mostly only address the flare at the ground level. If I rasped all the way up the hoof wall to remove it that would just thin the wall in that area. How to fix a flare depends on what’s causing it. But I mostly remove it at the ground surface from the top on flat footed horses that don’t have a lot of concavity. Their walls grow out instead of down so they don’t have much wall height. If I tried to remove it from the bottom I could make them sore because I would be removing too much height while trying to bring the hoof in. Hope that makes sense!

[@anniehope8651]

@@The_Female_Farrier Thank you!

[@thisirishcobcan]

Great video!

[@The_Female_Farrier]

Thank you so much for watching and for your comment!

[@gerrycoleman7290]

Was that Artimud you put in the crack?

[@The_Female_Farrier]

No that is a product I make called Healing Hoof Clay. kristinthornberry.com/shop

[@noxeswow]

@The Female Farrier have you bin back to that horse. how much have it heal was it??

[@The_Female_Farrier]

It has not fully healed yet. Owner is currently soaking it 3x/week. If it has not improved I will resect it.

[@noxeswow]

@@The_Female_Farrier thanks for info. can you do new video for it??

[@The_Female_Farrier]

@@noxeswow if I resect it I will definitely try to take video!

[@MC-uf1ts]

Screen is black

[@The_Female_Farrier]

It should be working! I just tried it and it played fine. I’m not super tech savvy though. My go to is to always restart an app or my web browser. Beyond that I’m not sure why the screen would be black 🙁.

[@MomBuilds]

It says asmr but you're talking over all the asmr sounds?

[@The_Female_Farrier]

ASMR can be visual and/or audio to my knowledge.