Jaime Jackson and other AANHCP CPs Explain "Why Horses Should Be Barefoot..."
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hy should horses be allowed to be barefoot?
Jaime: "The biology of Equus Caballus, the result of 60 million years years of natural selection that culminated more than one million years ago, demands that we work with its nature — not against it. The equine species is genuinely adapted to go barefoot. It is only through human ignorance of the horse's natural state that led us to the incorrect, and harmful, conclusion that shoes are necessary -- or useful. They aren’t, and, moreover, contribute significantly to the lameness we see everywhere around the world."
Louise: "The shoe was invented because poorly conceived boarding conditions made the horses sore-footed and the hooves deteriorate -- becoming brittle and weak. It is important to understand that most hoof problems that we see stems from bad boarding conditions (too much confinement, unnatural feeding, too little movement etc.) and not from genetic failure. Anything you nail or glue to the hoof will impede the hoof mechanism and thereby weaken the hooves and the horse's health in general."
Click below to read the rest of this article. Ir a la http://www.podologia-equina.blogspot.com/ a leer el artículo traducido al español(Gracias a Albert Villasevil) Additional articles can be found on the "News & Articles" link on menu at left.
Click HERE to read 'In Perspective, The Natural Horse, Horse Owner's Guide to Natural Hoofcare and Lifetime of Soundness' by Jaime Jackson for The Horse's Hoof, Issue 39 - Summer 2010
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eriodically we must remove Certified Practioners from our "Locate a Practitoner" listing if we have evidence that they are trimming below our standards and/or not to the guidelines. When this happens, the CP is contacted and also removed from the website listing until they have taken action to improve their understand or their trimming and then demonstrate it. If someone states on their personal website that they are Certified by the AANHCP and you do not seem them listed, you owe it to your horses to verify their credentials.
Please be careful about taking any advice on trimming from blogs! A lot of really bad advice is given each time we take a look at these blogs! Our best advice is to go to the Locate a Practitioner listing and use a certified Natural Hoof Care practitioner. Your horse will appreciate it.
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n May 18, Jaime Jackson had the opportunity to tour the Houston Mounted Police Department's Mounted Patrol Unit facilities, the second largest in the U.S., where all 38 horses are now barefoot! Back in 2004, Sr. Police Officer Gregory Sokoloski first explored different barefoot trimming methods and was given approval to begin removing the shoes of some of the more seriously lame horses. Although they describe their initial methods as a bit 'too aggressive,' they found their way to natural hoof care by 2005 when Sr. Police Officers Scott Berry and Danny Pryor joined Officer Sokoloski at an AANHCP workshop conducted by former member Pete Ramey. The next year, Berry and Pryor enrolled in the AANHCP Natural Hoof Care Training Program and became Certified Practitioners in 2009.
Pictured from left are Sr. Officer and AANHCP CP Scott Berry, Jaime Jackson, AANHCP CP Eddie Drabek, Sr. Officer Gregory Sokoloski, Sr. Office and AANHCP CP Danny Pryor and Lt. Randall Wallace, who was ultimately responsible for allowing the officers to bring natural hoof care and natural horsekeeping practices to the Unit. A huge congratulations to all involved! You can read more about their journey in an article written by Scott Berry, available on his Facebook page.
Natural Hoof Care Training and Certification
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lease go to www.isnhcp.net and click on the NHC Training link on menu.
Although we are happy to see that our training & certification program is recognized by other hoof care organizations to the degree that our certified practitioners are automatically qualified to be considered "certified," in their program(s), we are, unfortunately, not able to reciprocate in turn.
Earlier this year, we moved the new Natural Hoof Care Training Program to Jaime Jackson's newly created "Institute for the Study of Natural Horse Care Practices" (ISNHCP). The AANHCP will continue to be the certifying body for students completing their training and education with the ISNHCP and, at this time, it is the only training program recognized for certification through the AANHCP. Students of the ISNHCP / AANHCP will continue to use only authorized AANHCP Field Instructors to conduct their mentorships for completing their NHC training.
From Shod to Barefoot, Hooves in Transition and other new articles...
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lick HERE to see a few of Jaime Jackson's clients beginning with the day their shoes came off and then later after developing an entire new hoof capsule. Many people wonder if their horses can be barefoot and the answer is 'of course they can ALL be barefoot -- successfully, healthily and happily!'
It is the position of the AANHCP that ALL HORSES can be barefoot. Don't let anyone suggest otherwise.....
About the AANHCP....
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he AANHCP is dedicated to promoting natural hoof care and natural horse keeping practices through our education and advocacy programs. A pioneer in the natural horse care revolution, the AANHCP continues to be the leading global force for the humane care of domestic equines worldwide.
Testimonials from the Clients of our Certified Practitioners
We often hear from horse owners about how they stumbled into or discovered either Natural Hoof Care, or an AANHCP Certified Practitoner or one of Jaime Jackson's books -- often after being told they had no other options except for a lifetime of problems or euthanasia. And so we decided to share some of these letters.
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n July of 2008, I made the decision to stop competing with my horse Stamp in barrel racing (pictured above this year) because he was sore. After my vet told me he had navicular I was devastated because he was only 4 years old at the time! I couldn’t accept this so I took him to PEI (the Veterinary College on Prince Edward Island) for a second opinion only to have them tell me the same thing. They told me that corrective shoeing and medication would probably allow me to continue to race for a couple of years and then maybe he would be a candidate for nerve blocking followed by an early retirement or he could be euthanized. This was not an option for me! I love my horse too much too see him suffer like that. That is when I started to research about natural hoof trimming. I called PEI to see what they thought about it and they told me to "stick to corrective shoeing." I didn’t listen!! I found (AANHCP CP) Gudrun Buchhofer’s brochure and called her immediately. She told me she would help Stamp.
"Against everyone’s advice, I went with the barefoot trim for Stamp. I decided to give it a try for a full year before I made any other decisions. I’m not going to lie; the first couple of months were really rough. He had some abscesses and he was extremely sore barefoot. So I used the hoof boots on him to get him through this stage. Sure enough, 4 months later I was back in the saddle. I wasn’t sure at this point if I could race him because everyone told me he could never run as well barefoot. Well, this summer we proved them wrong. Not only did he run just as hard as he did in previous years; he improved. This summer was the first summer I’ve had him that he was completely sound for the whole show season. He competed in almost every exhibition in the Dodge barrels and did great. I went from being the most skeptical person in the horse industry to the biggest fan of natural hoof care. Gudrun is amazing at what she does and she truly wants to help the animals. In my opinion, she saved my horse. It has been more than two years since he went barefoot and he continues to show improvements. And he has never had any more lameness issues. It not only improved his hooves but also his entire body."
Karen Hatcher & Going Postal (AKA Stamp), June 2010
(Client of AANHCP CP Gudrun Buchhofer - Novia Scotia, Canada)
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