[Ag-eq] cleaning horses hooves

[dogwood farm]

Hi Daniella,

My name is Susan and I have delt with horses before and after sight
loss.  There is no special technique for teaching a blind person to
groom a horse.  The best way is for someone to show you exactly what
the hoof feels like before, during and after the hoof has been picked
clean.  When a hoof is clean, the shape of the frog is very easy to
feel.  It looks like a raised triangle with the flat side on the
bottom and the point facing upwards towards the front of the hoof.
Like Michelle was explaining, there is an indented groove on the left
and right side of the frog and there is where you want to focus your
hoof pick, removing dirt and manure that has been packed hard in those
grooves.

Susan
dogwoodfarm62 at gmail.com


On 4/13/19, Daniella Roccasalvo via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello Michelle,
> I don't know what a V shape is. Would I just hold the hoof with one hand and
> feel with the other? I've never cleaned hooves because no one has known how
> to teach me but I want to start.
> Daniella
>
>> On Apr 13, 2019, at 10:37 AM, Michelle Creedy <michelle.creedy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Daniella, you can simply touch the bottom of the hoof. You can feel the
>> frog because it is a V shape. Just put your hoof pick in the little groove
>> next to it and start cleaning. It's just fine to do this.
>>
>> Try to touch the hooves when they are clean. This will give you good
>> spacial awareness about where things are.
>>
>> Michelle
>>
>>
>> Michelle
>>
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>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Apr 13, 2019, at 7:26 AM, Daniella Roccasalvo via Ag-eq
>>> <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> I'm new to the mailing list. I've ridden horses for a while off and on.
>>> One question I have is as a totally blind person, how do you know where
>>> the frog is on the hoof of a hourse? How do you make sure you clean
>>> around it, and avoid hitting it?
>>> Thanks for the suggestions
>>> Daniella
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