Sage is now only half natural. Sometimes, though, moving by fractions and increments is all you need, and it can bring you all the way back to balance. I think for a while, after I first got Sage, with all of her problems and my own chronic illness, I thought I could fix her by [...]
Farriers for Sage have all seemed to come with glass slippers that just don’t fit. In an equine twist to the fairy tale, is isn’t the shoe that Sage had lost but the fit with her farrier prince. Needless to say, Sage has kissed a lot of frogs in her search for the right farrier [...]
OK, so I haven’t personally had a good pedicure myself in a very long time, but its nice to know that my horse is finally getting her feet taken care of properly. On Monday, Lori came out for the second time to trim Sage’s hooves. It had been five weeks, and we decided that was [...]
Everything was going fine for about three weeks; great, in fact. And then I started showing up and got no whinny, no trotting up to the fence to greet me, and I knew something was definitely wrong again. Sage’s way of telling me she is in pain is to ignore me, which is kind of [...]
Hindsight Is 20/20: An Update On Sage’s Hooves I was only cautiously optimistic about the switch in my trimmers, and the new look and trim for Sage’s hooves, so I have waited a while to post an update. When you have farrier-itis, it takes a while for the “inflammation” to recede and make way for [...]
I now have yet another apology that I owe to Sage. For several months now, her hooves have been looking, well, a little odd. I was having such a time with self-doubt, though, that I kept my questions to myself until very late. Too late for my horse’s comfort. You see, my farrier had trained [...]
Stay tuned for the addition to this blog of a link list for barefoot resources. Sage is slowly healing her guts, and fortunately her hooves have come a long way as well. I think they are beautiful, naturally.