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One is to do as Melanie suggests.. rasp right up the walls to remove all flare and make them straight.
Hi Melanie, just reread my post and found this.. Gratuitous use of the word "right"!
Sorry... didn't mean to say that you were doing anything extreme.. This is of course what many respected trimmers do, and what many trim teachers teach (including Jaime Jackson, whose method I first learnt). And of course, you are not trimming "right" up the wall.. just one third of the way, as is accepted.
I just wanted to make it clear to other readers who might be potentially considering this, that there can be problems with this method, EVEN when it's done as you posted in the first photo, mainly in the bottom third of the hoof, IF THE HOOVES wall is not strong and thick enough, so that they can use the tool wisely.
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Taking a flare down only from the sole side will still have prying forces from the sides as a hoof is used for turning/stopping.
I disagree with this. When I trim a hoof with flare, I make sure that the entire rim of wall is bevelled as neccessary to bring the hoof into line. If the diet and excercise is right, the horses I trim with this method very quickly grow out flare, and achieve straight bars and deeper soles, faster than when I used to trim the wall.. just what I have found from my experiments.
Cheers,
Sue
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) but with the changes to terrain and exercise and diet, I never needed to. I did have to let go of "perfect" though... Although she IS perfectly sound! 