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Oh dear! Has my propensity to invoke the Socratic method rubbed off on you? :eek:

Are you satisfied that your trainer is qualified to diagnose lameness?

If the hanging skin is dead you can cut it off with a scissors. Better that then having it get caught on something and tearing off some live tissue above the hair line.

Before I entered the farrier business I only knew one farrier - the guy that worked on my horses. He always cleaned up after himself, returned telephone calls, was prompt for appointments, and...

No I am simply saying that you have failed to rationally define what is a long toe. I know a long toe is bad. So is a short toe. What you haven't done is defined what is a long toe in relation to...

BLUETOOTH is a way connecting communication accesories to your mobile phone using radio waves instead of wires.

I have at least a dozen useless blue tooth devices. These represent a small...

Nope I never miss my anti dogma dose.


You posted one number (15mm) not a perportional reference derived from a metacenter.

Appearently not, because there's a bunch of folks (a lot of 'em...

Dude, get yerself one of them smart fones with a built in MP3 player. Then you can listen to YOUR music on a bluetooth sterio head set while working on a horse.

If you can't multitask, there's...

Yep, that's my rusty legato. Me chops ain't what they used to be.

Digital Piano? Like it only has two keys "1" and "0" . . . Kewell!

Depending on which state you live in, "engineer" may or...

Baaaa Raaam Yeewww! :yes:
Where did the podiatrist come up with this 15mm number? Are we talking about 15mm on a Shetland or a Shire?
Baaaa Raaam Yeewww! :yes:

By itself the 15mm number is...

Try putting a bluetooth headset on and acting like you're dictating notes on the condition of the hoof to a recording divice. It will seem like you're being very scientific and technical. The horse...

Ask your nuerologist how that sorts out when someone can sing while playing the guitar or piano.

In a computer, the Central Processing Unit (CPU) multitasks by dedicating X number of clock...

BuddyRoo got what I was saying exactly the way I wanted you to interpret it.

You "challenged" the farrier the first time you asked about the dish in the toe. If he remembers that conversation,...

That was then . . . this is now.

Having a dish in the toe is not a problem for a farrier until it becomes a lameness problem. Some farriers nail shoes on dished toes for years and years. Then...

I'd rather show another farrier because somebody needs to be close by to do followup care and make adjustments. Managing a founder case long distance is a bad idea - speaking from experience coming...

Don't need an engineer, I've got Stovall and Burten on speed dial. I also have a marine geologist on call. So there. :lol:

Ok, ok, ok I will describe SOME of the mechanical considerations I believe are important in the analysis and describe TWO of the options I have used for founder treatment. Remember these are...

I work on several horses that have had various coronary band injuries. Since this structure produces the horn of the hoof wall, if it is significantly damaged, you could wind up with a hoof that...

As opposed to full of somebody else?


Good. Isn't that what we ought to encourage everyone to do?


Seems you're talking about raw data as opposed to processed information. Yea, I agree...

Then MY PURPOSE for being here on this forum is BEING ACHIEVED!!!

Can I get each of you to THINK about your decisions instead of allowing somebody else to do your thinking for you?

Sometimes...

If you don't apply it to a clean dry surface, it will fall out all by itself in a matter of minutes. :winkgrin: Using a heat gun (like a hair dryer, but higher heat) to dry the sole helps get better...

Really? All those cadavers I dissected must have been a fluke! The collateral cartridges resemble a firm sponge filled with blood - at least the ones I've actually cut out of a cadaver and held in my...

LOL.
Print the document.
Get some Elmer's Glue . . .:)

In the case of a horse with laminitis.

1. Define the problem.
2. Identify Options. Evaluate, and choose Option.
3. Plan the...

I wrote a summary of the methodology a long time ago.
You are welcome to read it, but then you're going to have to figure out how to apply the methodology to a horse. :)

It's a two semester...

I use the "systems approach." It is 6-step decision support methodology used by engineers and Information Technology analysts.

There are books on the topic, but they are written according to a...