{"id":7553,"date":"2017-09-16T09:13:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T15:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7553"},"modified":"2019-03-20T11:45:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T17:45:36","slug":"what-shape-are-my-horses-feet-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/what-shape-are-my-horses-feet-in\/","title":{"rendered":"What Shape are My Horse&#8217;s Feet In?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many horse owners spend an extraordinary amount of time fretting over their horses&#8217; feet, believing soundness is impossible because the animals&#8217; hooves don&#8217;t match those depicted in anatomy textbooks. So says Maryland-based farrier Darren Greaves, CJF, who notes that the &#8220;ideal&#8221; foot is quite rare. In most cases, Greaves stresses that deviations from optimal angles and shape are not the end of the world.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/31993\/what-shape-are-my-horses-feet-in?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With consistent, proper care farriers and horse owners can manage most hoof types, and horses can function successfully in their designated capacities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,14,40],"tags":[728,852,851,853,260,854,661,621,239],"class_list":["post-7553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hoof-care","category-industry","category-thehorse","tag-abscesses","tag-darren-greaves","tag-hoof-balance","tag-scott-mckendrick","tag-thrush","tag-trenton","tag-trimming-and-shoeing","tag-utah","tag-white-line-disease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8104,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions\/8104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}