Mounted search and rescue

["Terry Nowacki" <wwfarm@wiktel.com>]

In Northern Mn it is usually is way too cold to allow snow to stick, it
usually just creeks when you walk on it.
But the rare times it does stick I have sprayed the underside of  hooves
with Spam cooking spray, it works great because it is not messy and you do
not have to take your gloves off to apply it.. It also helps to keep hooves
trimmed and keep the soles and frog smoothly trimmed so snow does not find
as much place to find a grip.

TER
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shannon Williams" <skwilliam_2000@yahoo.com>
To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [MSAR] from Spain: what I do when riding on snow


> Hello all.  A thin coat of vaseline on the inside of
> the hooves generally keeps the snow from sticking.
> --- carlos velasco <carlosvelascosan@yahoo.es> wrote:
> > Hi, every body. First of all, sorry for my english,
> > I'll try to do my best. Here where i live, there is
> > snow most days in winter. Some time ago, while
> > riding
> > with a friend on the mountains we got a lots of snow
> > when we got to tha top.  Since we were unprepared to
> > that situation and had to ride still some hours to
> > get
> > home, those annoing snow-balls began to appear.  My
> > friend is a Survival Trainer in Madrid, and riding
> > teacher. He went off his mare, took some old cloth
> > from the back pac and rriped it off in four parts.
> > He
> > tied them on the mare (hoofs?) and the problem was
> > solved.  I did the same and worked for my horse too.
> > Some times we had to remove and tie again,  but it
> > worked for a long time. While you don't  step in a
> > no
> > -snow ground the cloth won't break.  After that,  I
> > though about at home and made a kind of shoes using
> > old tires, and I had the problem gone. Now I ride
> > almost every day and mi horse "oscar" got used to
> > wear
> > those shoes. If you want, I can send a picture. My
> > E-mail adress: carlosvelascosan@yahoo.es
> >
> >
> >
> >
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