Hello all,I could do with some advice from other Barefoot folk. I've very recently moved yards (7 days ago) from a conventional set up (yard 1: stabled at night, turn out all day most days on cattle grass but unfertilized, mixed surfaces to work on including two sand schools, fields, and tracks of varying degrees from grit to downright rocky) to a Barefoot friendly yard (yard 2: 24/7 turnout on a mixture of old grass and sand/fine grit tracks with shelters and hay feeding stations). My completely sound, rock-crunching Barefoot horse is now very sore on all four feet! The changes I can identify are:-- Moved one side of a lake to the other (slightly nicer microclimate)-- Moved from unfertilized grass (but still cattle grass) to old pasture-- One source of good quality hay to another-- Moved to 24/7 turn-out so no time standing in on straw but plenty of dry areas to get to despite the eternal rain.-- Moved from Agrobs Alpengrun, Linseed, & FP (with the odd handful of speedibeet to eat some Danilon recently -- she broke a tooth and had it removed in mid December) to Thunderbrooks chaff, Linseed & FP (with the odd handful of speedibeet as above). This horse has previously lived in a very conventional set-up virtually identical to yard 1 but with richly fertilized cattle grass (yard 3) and never had a footsore day. She didn't react like this when she was moved as a 3 year old from a 24/7 turn out herd in Essex to live with me on yard 3 in Devon, nor when we moved from yard 3 to yard 1 in another county six months ago -- again, she barely seemed to notice. How can moving from a less than ideal set-up to a supposedly ideal set-up run by a qualified EP suddenly create a crippled horse?! (I'm feeling horribly guilty and the only reason I haven't taken her straight back to yard 1 already is that my partner and two horses have settled in fine at yard 2 and both (also barefoot) seem fine. Help!
01-21-2018, 12:01 AM
Barefoot horse suddenly very footsore.
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