GIANT HOOF RESTORATION [HUGE FEET] 

I cut him some slack for the dog in the background

Yes lovely job,and I would like to see the horse

Good job

I've learned that there's a difference in texture between live sole and exfoliating dead sole so you know you're getting close when the stuff you're cutting out turns from chalky to waxy and that's where you stop cutting. Also if you find the "true apex" of the frog (the tip of the triangular thing in the middle) by cutting away excess material until you see where the frog and sole merge together, you can judge how much sole depth you have (the deeper the apex, the more the sole). I'm not a farrier but I've watched a lot of professional tutorial videos because it fascinates me

@@miamyos oh, that’s pretty interesting.

Ok. I was wondering how they figured out how far into the bottom of the hoof they could go. Thank you foe that

69th like if this video

Oh god 😂

It's definitely some kind of draft horse

Yes absolutely. My hogs love them as well 😁

Must be a brand new rasp…🤔

It sets the shoe. Think of it as a cheat sheet. Lol

I love that piece of nylon strap on your stand.

Probably a different feel in the trim at different depths

It's still in the "dead" portion of the hoof! A bit deeper and a bit more inwards, one would be hitting live tissue - where nerves are, and the horse wouldn't be happy! Where these nails go, the keratin has no sensation. Hope that helps!

@@NoctiDraws thank you very much it does help a lot. I was kinda confused since it seems to go so deep.

​@@nilkaelisrose7267 They have to go in at the right angle so that they stay in the keratin layer. That hard layer goes all the way up the outside of the hoof, so as long as the nails lean outward instead of inward, they don't touch the live tissue even though they go a long way up.

@@carrieseymour5197 thats is super interesting thank you so much for clarifying this 😊

Sometimes hooves have odd coloring and it can appear to be something bad when it is actually the natural coloration of the hoof. Learned this myself which was strange. I thought it was that until I was told that is in fact pigmentation and not the other. Sometimes however you get coloration like this cause there was already bruising before you started working on the hoof not after trimming and trimming as far as getting blood will very likely result in the horse letting you know. That is... In the form of kicking and exclaiming as something like that would be likely painful to a horse. So I do not believe that this was caused by the farrier but an ongoing problem or natural pigmentation. I am no professional but I sometimes work with horses.

Disclaimer: opinion from a “not farrier”, but I believe that it is meant to show high spots and low spots on the hoof (high spots appearing seared and low spots appearing unchanged) where the shoe will make contact so that pressure points can be avoided by trimming away the high spots until the whole thing is evenly seared (therefore indicating that everything is leveled up). But that’s only my best guess based on watching too many of these videos.

Searing is also used to kill infections in the Hoof. Cause Just like Cows, the hoofs can get infected. There’s a number of benefits in doing this since it also helps for shoeing horses as well.

@@LOVEMUFFIN_official sounds like a good reason to me. Thanks.

@@danielramsey6141 thanks. I just think of the the smell that has to make too. But it does make sense.

Glue is an option; but it can't stand the twisting that a properly nailed shoe can.

To make a smooth surface between the hoof and the shoe

Nope

Not at all