Health & Care · #barefoot

Health & Care guides tagged “barefoot” from the Apex Equine resource center.

• Barefoot or shod: getting past the dogma — Few topics start an argument in the tack room faster. The truth is duller and more useful than either camp wants: the right answer is whatever keeps that particular horse sound and working.
• Pulling shoes: a realistic barefoot transition plan — Going barefoot can work beautifully — or leave a horse footsore for a year if you do it wrong. Here's an honest, week-by-week transition plan, with the checkpoints that tell you whether to push on or put shoes back.