Saw this post ([What happens when you don’t trim your horse’s shoes](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/k0wn7m/what_happens_when_you_dont_trim_your_horses_shoes/)), and it got me wondering. How did/do wild horses deal with their continuously growing shoes? Are they ground off on rough terrain? do they break off on rocks? Is the crazy growth we see something that only happens in domesticated horses?
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Horseshoes it the part usually of metal that you put on the hooves on the horse. The title of the post is incorrect as states in many posts. You trim a horse hoof not the shoe. Wild horses do not have any shoes. What has grown on that image is the horse hooves. The horse hoof is equivalent to human nails just larger and thicker.
Horses need shoes because of domesticated walk on very hard surfaces like roads that would wear down the hoof too fast. They are also often in wetter conditions so the hoof gets softer, the field can be quite wet, and hoses have been used in large part for plowing
The result is that wild horses that tend to live in an arid steppe climate. The ground is not as hard as a human road but not as soft a field. They walk very long each day. The result is the hooves is worn down all the time at the same rate it grows. To hard surface or to soft is bad for the horse
You need to trim the hoof because the uses hard shoes so the hooves are not worn down. Or if it is stationary or on the soft ground.
The horses in the images do not have any shoes on the “bottom” of the hooves so it is likely a horse keep in a small paddock with soft ground like the grass in the images. The horse did not move around enough on the surface so the hoof continued to grow.
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