| Show horses feet need good care in severe weather human beings have no monopoly on foot ills horses likewise know what it means to have sore und and tender feat especially in freezing and thawing weather for that reason the animal husbandry men at the new york state college of agriculture suggest that special attention be given in winter to old dobbins hoots hoofs roads that flint have frozen rough after a thaw are extremely hard on b horses feet if the feet are not protected by some kind of calked balked shoes for heavy hauling work in the winter inter time the feet should be protected by a good set of well fitted calk shoes under particularly heavy hauling conditions where sharp obstacles stick out of the road and cause soreness in horses feet the college reco recommends the use of leather padding under the th shoe but the use of 0 leather pudding padding Is restricted quite largely to city streets where bere the wear ear Is unusually hard for tile the average winter work about the farm however it Is not absolutely necessary to have work teams shod but it Is advisable to keep a careful watch on the hoofs keeping them well nell trimmed and shaped sli aped untrimmed hoots hoofs break off after a time making the feet sore and resulting in lameness A rasp a paring knife and a pair of pincers are all the tools required to keep heep the hoots hoofs dou dom n |
