Barefoot or Shod? We Did Both for 20 Years — Here's the Truth

Everything I know about keeping a horse sound, cheap, and long-lived — written down in one place. Three volumes. Seven companion bonuses. The full 30-year system. → https://big-jim-secrets.com The barefoot hoof system The forage-first feeding model The vaquero starting method The 30-year horse care calendar A 90-day rehab protocol for horses leaving shoes, grain, and stall dependency Tools and supplier directory This video breaks down twenty years of my own barefoot-versus-shod receipts against the numbers from the American Farriers Journal, and traces how "shoe every horse" became the default back in 1835. Volume One of the Field Edition lays out the complete barefoot foot system: how to tell a bare-foot horse from a shoe horse, the week-by-week transition off shoes, and the trim schedule that keeps a foot sound. Drop your state, tell me whether your horse is barefoot or shod, and tell me the horse's age and whether it's sound. I want to see where the sound old ones come from.