Over the weekend of March 7 & 8, 2009, a group of enthusiastic learners gathered at the Nexus Center for two jam packed days of lecture, demo and hands on trimming practice.Saturday dawned warm and sunny. We began with Lauren leading a lecture about the hoof, how it operates and how to identify signs of ill health. The Horse Science freeze-dried hoof model really helped everyone to visualize what goes on inside the hoof.
"I just want to say what a fantastic job [Sharon] and Lauren did with the hoof care clinic. The material was professionally done and the presentation was awesome!" -- Kathy from TN.Lauren also talked about how she trims. She uses a method commonly referred to as Trimming From The Top. After talking about the key points of the trim she demonstrated how to do it on one of our horses. Lauren made a point of discussing not just what to do but how to do it efficiently.
After lunch everyone got a chance to do some trimming for themselves under the watchful eyes of both Lauren and Sharon.
"...just wanted to thank you again for the wonderful week end of learning and sharing and fellowship." Tata from TN.Sunday was similar in format to the previous day. In the Sunday morning lecture Lauren delved further into other important aspects of hoof care such as nutrition and how to encourage movement which is is so crucial to healing. She also talked about special trimming cases such
as founder and navicular. After lunch was more trimming with all the participants getting to trim a whole horse by themselves (with a lot of help, of course.) We have a wide variety of types of feet at the Center so we were able to match participants with horses who have similar issues as the ones they have at home.One particularly ambitious participant wanted to squeeze in some riding lessons with Sharon as well. So, while other folks were getting some trimming done she had a lesson on the lovely Tulsa on both Saturday and Sunday.
"I have to say those two lessons taught me more than I've learned in all the years that I rode when I was young. Thank you!!!!" -- Carol from NC.What was most exciting to us was the fact that everyone went away feeling full of great information and confident that when they got home they could actually do the trim! That's "teaching a man to fish!" and what we're all about here.
2 comments:
I went to the clinic and it was very informative and interesting. I was very impressed with Lauren's knowledge and skill. I feel with a little more practice, I can trim my own horses myself. I would highly recommend going to one of their clinics and am looking forward to the next one! Keep me informed! Thank you Lauren & Sharon!
I want to add, that even though time has passed, I have great reminders from the clinic, that help my eye and trim process each and every time I am looking at a hoof. Lauren is an awesome teacher, her passion is very inspiring!
Can't wait for the next clinic!
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