Wild horses seem to get by just fine without people caring for them. How does all this care make their hoofs different/better than if they stayed natural?
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Water makes horses hooves soft and prone to damage so when the ponies of the Huns made it from the dry steppes to the wet areas of Europe they faltered because they didn’t have their horses hooves shod. If the horses walk on very solid ground like roads the hooves can crack or split so need to be shod. If horses run on dry grass all day they don’t need horseshoes.
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