Transition Phase

The "transition phase" is typically seen as the period of time between removing the horses shoes and the horse achieving established soundness.
This amount of time is detirmined by several factors:Existing hoof integrity.Existing hoof problems requiring time for a healing process.Diet.Exercise, movement, growth and wear.Consitent environment.

However the hoof is always in transition!
The horse is always responding to his environment and what is in it. This gives us the opportunity to always be improving there chance of soundness.
It also means we have to be comittted to keeping it up!
As a Natural Hoof Care Practitioner it can be very frustrating to get a horse to a point of having almost perfectly transitioned feet only to have it dashed by a sudden or negative change in diet leaving an unsightly event line or flare all over the hoof wall! YUK!
Look HERE for more information on the importance of diet.

The average horse grows a new hoof capsule, from coronet band to ground, roughly every 9 months or so. There is always the opportunity to grow the perfect hoof. We just have to remove factors that compromise that progress.