Christina has been involved with horses since 1984. She discovered the benefits of natural lifestyle and barefoot horsekeeping when her the 15 yo OTTB was diagnosed with incurable navicular disease. Today, five years later, he is sound and healthier than ever. Today Christina is helping other horses become and remain sound in the Northern NJ, southern NY and eastern PA region.
Christina is passionate about spreading the word on achieving optimal health for horses by providing for its physiological and emotional needs, and enabling a horse to live up to its full genetic potential and to perform outstandingly on the terrain it lives and competes on, by providing the most correct trim for its needs and conditions. We invite you to submit questions and cases for input from Christina as well as a rotating panel of invited experts. For public or private consultation, email lookout @ nac.net
October 24, 2006 at 11:50 pm
Outstanding, Christina!
Love it.
If I can find the time I’d love to post some issues and cases.
Dan
October 25, 2006 at 2:06 am
Thank you Dan!
Please do find the time. Your contributions will be very worthwhile.
Christina
November 4, 2006 at 3:48 pm
There’s a lot of incorrect information on this site and also some terribly trimmed feet.
To be honest if someone did my horse’s feet like they’ve been done on here I’d be absolutely furious.
November 30, 2006 at 1:51 am
can you be specific?
November 30, 2006 at 3:02 am
Hi Sarah, I’ve asked Nicola the same question. Hopefully she will come back and respond.
February 13, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Hello Christina,
In 1986 HorseSneakers became the first hoof boots made specifically for barefoot horses.
If you look carefully at the other hoof boots you will realize HorseSneakers and Hoofwings have been imitated by all the other boot companies. That is not a complaint. My purpose has always been to change the way horses hooves are protected. Competition is the fastest way to advance technology.
Do the hoof boots companies on your site pay you? If not, I hope you will include HorseSneaker Hoofwear on your site.
Thank you,
Frank Orza
February 15, 2007 at 12:25 am
Hello Frank. Thanks for your comment. I do not accept any payment from any manufacturers (not that anyone has offered any, LOL!) I have just listed all the ones I am aware of, or those that have been brought to my attention as you have. I will be listing yours shortly; if I could get a good photo of the boot that conforms to the format I have set up, that would be helpful.
Thanks!
December 31, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Christina,
I am interested a couple things, if you don’t mind my asking.
1- what exactly brought you to barefoot, was it just the diagnosis on your OTTB, or other things as well?
2- Who/ where did you study with?
Not trying to be a pain, I am just interested in other barefoot journeys, and have a “habit” of collecting odd bits of information along the way!
For myself, my husband and I have had a barefoot practice for a while now. He was a traditional shoer, and I like to say I corrupted him to barefoot. When he suffered a devastating injury to his knee (requiring 2 surgeries,) and I had 2 babies quite close together, we made the difficult decision to scale down from 600 horses to 15 and one donkey. Quite a change, but … at least we still do some to help!
Did Nicola ever respond back to you? I’d also be interested in hearing her reasons for stating so strongly what she did here…
Happy New Year!
January 4, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Hi Christina!
Happy New Year to you and the horses!
I just found your lovely blog and am glad it exists:)))
Have you got any experience or have you heard about driving barfoot horses? Is there a way I could contact you via e-mail?
I have got a website about horse carriage driving for recreation and pleasure. Please be welcomed to check it out on
http://www.discover-horse-carriage-driving.com
Cheers,
Csib
January 6, 2008 at 3:01 am
Hi Csib,
Glad you found the site and that you like it.
I do know about some barefoot driving horses. Please contact me at the email address listed under “Contact Us”.
January 7, 2008 at 4:08 am
In response to Mrs. Mom’s post (#8), some answers: It was primarily my experience with my own, lame with navicular OTTB that was originally my primary catalyst in starting me on the barefoot journey. Its pursuit opened my understanding to much more than feet with regard to horses’ health. IOW healthy feet are just the start of enabling horses to be healthy; so much depends on a species-appropriate lifestyle.
I also learned how to recognize healthy feet and became aware of how many poor, unbalanced trimming jobs are out there, unbeknownst to their caretakers. My purpose with this blog is to try and help owners understand what constitutes healthy feet.
I have studied with or about all the major barefoot proponents through courses, seminars and clinics. Plus, spending time with individual farriers to familiarize myself with that aspect of the horse industry. I do not adhere to a particular philosophy other than a close-to-ground parallel coffin bone, and circulation through the hoof as a result of flexibility of the hoof as a primary source of the horse’s well being.
March 31, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Hi,
Congratulations! This is a great blog and a fantastic resource. Nice work with the “terribly trimmed feet”. They are all showing great improvement. Keep it up!
Best wishes.
May 10, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Hello and thank you for this blog. Please stop by mine over the next few days. I am thinking of going barefoot and have many questions etc etc. I will posting pics of the boys feet and any and all feed back are welcome. You can read the story of how I got on this slippery slope there as well. Thank you
Jewel
http://www.20metercircleoflife.blogspot.com