Healthy Hoof

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I began trimming in 2003 when my horse, Gavilan, staged a sit-down strike (literally) when we tried to shoe him after a 6 month vacation barefoot ( read the story ) . I was initially coached by a local barefoot trimmer, Leza Smith, and later by Martha Olivo (January to August 2004), and I ultimately received a United Horsemanship certification in August 2004. I was trimming 40+ horses even though I wasn't able to devote myself to trimming because I was a tack store owner. I began studying Pete Ramey's trim in September, 2004, ( www.hoofrehab.com ) and after an extended phone conversation with Pete, I began applying his techniques. In 2006, I helped found the American Hoof Association along with Pete and Ivy Ramey and 12 other "darned good trimmers" , and was elected Vice President. I focus on rehab and transitions in addition to preparing horses for optimum performance either barefoot or in hoof boots. I will work with colts & untrained horses using Natural Horsemanship techniques to teach horses to stand quietly for trimming, but charge an additional $30/hour training fee if the horse becomes a hazard. I'm eager to help rehabilitate neglected, navicular and foundered horses, and over the past few years have worked with over 40 navicular horses and at lest as many laminitic horses. I successfully transition horses from shoes to barefoot soundness, and routinely resolve conditions like white line disease, contracted heels, under run heels and long toes. At this pont, I have taken the shoes off of more than 500 horses in my practice, as a consultant and in clinics. Almost all of them are still barefoot.

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