Method For Trimming Horses' Hooves
OwnerKarina Lewisinventor
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Abstract
A method for trimming equine hoofs with power tools is disclosed that takes care to measure all four hooves of an equine for symmetry of trimming, then carefully trims regions of the hooves to ideal measurements. In another embodiment, the trimming is done in a specific order and in incremental iterations to ensure a perfect hoof trimming. Used properly, the method realigns the keratin tubules found in the make-up of the hoof horn, or wall, which subsequently has the effect of stimulating healthy formation of laminae. By realigning the hoof improves the equine's: skeletal, circulatory, respiratory, nervous, skin, muscle, digestive, urogenital, and lymphatic systems resulting in their healthy operation.
Claims5
A method for trimming an equine's hoof comprising the following steps:
- Step (1), measuring an equine's hoof;
- wherein two measurements are taken of a deepest part of a collateral groove on both sides of a rear of a hoof where a frog meets a hoof to a top heigh of a hoof's wall where a hoof touches the ground at the rear of a hoof and a third measurement is taken at a deepest part of an apex of the frog to a top heigh of a hoof's wall where a hoof's toe touches the ground at a front of a hoof;
- Step (2), determining if the equine is the size of a full-grown horse, or if the equine is the size of is the size of one of:
- half the size of a full-grown horse, an adult miniature horse, an adult pony, a small adult hinny, a small jack ass, and a small donkey;
- Step (3), trimming;
- if the equine is the size of a full-grown horse, then trim the hoof down to a live sole plane, creating concavity until said two measurements from the deepest part of a collateral groove on both sides of a rear of a hoof where said frog meets said hoof to said top heigh of said hoof's wall where said hoof touches the ground at the rear of said hoof and said third measurement taken at said deepest part of said apex of said frog to a top heigh of said hoof's wall where said hoof's toe touches the ground at said front of said hoof all measure between 13 mm and 15 mm;
- if the equine is the size of one of:
- half the size of a full-grown horse, an adult miniature horse, an adult pony, a small adult hinny, a small jack ass, and a small donkey;
- then trim the hoof down to a live sole plane, creating concavity until said two measurements from the deepest part of a collateral groove on both sides of a rear of a hoof where said frog meets said hoof to said top heigh of said hoof's wall where said hoof touches the ground at the rear of said hoof and said third measurement taken at said deepest part of said apex of said frog to a top heigh of said hoof's wall where said hoof's toe touches the ground at said front of said hoof all measure between 6.5 mm and 7.5 mm;
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- wherein said trimming is done using a power tool that operate between 10,000 and 13,000 revolutions per minute or at frequency between 175 and 215 Hertz providing healthy pain reducing frequencies to said equine's hoof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.