Why do horsemen install horseshoes on horses?
In early days horses were not shod, they were use to the elements - so why did things change?
In early days horses were not shod, they were use to the elements - so why did things change?
Tigger
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The shoes protect the hooves from surfaces such as cobblestone or concrete. A horse's feet can get pretty tender if the hooves are worn down too much. Also, some of the shoes are rather like chains for a car's wheels, and serve much the same purpose.
Anonymous
The horseshoe is not installed, it is nailed into the horses hoof on the outer part of it. This does not hurt the horse. The horseshoe is most of the time put on the horse for protection and sometimes for a crack in the hoof to hold the wall of the hoof together. Putting shoes on a horse isn't shoodding them. Shodding a horse is simply triming the horses hoof. Most of the time mustangs don't need shoes because the hoof is used to the rock, but since they're not being run down on rock and hard terriane they need to be shod or easier to understand trimed. I hope this helps.
Anonymous
They were to shod in the early days. A horse couldnt stand the cobble stone roads that were made in the 17 and 1800s.
Kelly S
Actually farriers install shoes on horses.
And horses have been shod for a VERY, VERY long time.
A lot of times horses do go barefoot too, even in these days.
But horseshoes do protect a horse's feet from uneven wear, splitting, and correcting defects
Bohemian
As people travelled further and needed to protect a horse's hooves from wearing down and becoming tender, then the need for shoes came about. Also I guess technology played a part in actually having the means of making something that was tough enough to protect the hoof and even to hold it to the hoof