If adopting a feralMustangfrom the Bureau of Land Management , there are many thing you will have to keep in mind during the training unconscious process . Among them , hoof careis especially important . Alladopted Mustangsneed hoof trimming and , in some cases , shoe , depending on their use and the terrain .
In a four - yr subject area conduct on Australia ’s wild horses by the Australian Brumby Research Unit within the School of Veterinary Science at the University of Queensland , Dr. Brian Hampson determine six different environments of conditions and dry land condition in the country . The researchers captured brumbies ( the risky gymnastic horse ) and moved them to unlike placement — some wet , some dry and so on . Some of the horses ’ invertebrate foot did n’t hold up well . This was especially true with horses moving from the stiff environment to the juiceless surroundings , which proves that when you take a horse out of its natural surround , there are going to be changes in its hoof . So when we take feral horses out of their surround and put them in a man - made environs , we have to provide military man - made solutions .
In the state of nature , horses move around on arid and harsh ground and fag down their hooves as they go . If you put them in a paddock , they lose this opportunity completely . When you make horses domestic , domestic - Equus caballus rules use .
As a side musical note , Mustangs can have genetically bad hoof , too . Some of the horse have hoof complex body part that are badly form ; they may endure in the wild , but they surely are n’t thriving . In the Australian study , some of the horses ’ foundation ( before they were moved to a new location ) were completely beaten up .
Domesticated Mustangs can also have proceeds stanch from improper nutrition . Mustangs survive on little sustenance in the wild , but when domesticise , they eat safe food and often overeat , direct to a mellow number of overweight horses , horses with quick - produce hoof and horses with laminitis , a serious hoof condition . Find a just farrier , and speak to your veterinarian about a proper sustenance plan for your Mustang .
Because you have a ferine horse , you ’ll have to train your horse to accept hoof care . learn it barn and shoeing manners . If you do n’t have experience with a feral sawhorse , seek assistance from someone who does .
— Steve Kraus , head of farrier services at Cornell University Hospital for Animals in Ithaca , N.Y.
This clause originally appear in the September / October 2011 emergence ofHobby Farms .
