Hooves - Back to the Future

by Barb Fenwick
(Manitoba, Canada)

They start out on 4 fine hooves
Built to do the job
Thundering over hill and dale
Over rocks, through rivers and bogs.

Then man came along one day
And decided to contain
And took the feet out from under them
And added iron to their pain.

Now the pendulum is swinging back
As the gate is opening wide
And freedom is relearned again
No longer to confine.

To stalls and steel and paddocks bare
Instead fields and stony glens
To build the hooves back to natural steel
And let them be healthy again.

Written by:
Barb Fenwick

Horses Naturally Magazine
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