Awareness of the outside world. The Atlantic: DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest, Zhang, March 18, 2024. Did not read. Required sign in. I was struck by the headline. I’d heard about paternity issues but hadn’t thought of this. I wonder if, in 50 years, people will be living with a level of information detail that we cannot imagine & will have adapted in ways that we cannot currently comprehend. To paraphrase Pohl, predicting the future is not predicting the car. It is predicting the traffic jam. But I digress.
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Horses went 7 weeks between shoeings! Well, 7 weeks minus one day per blacksmith schedule. Rodney was ready but he might could have gone 8 weeks if he’d had to, as last time. [What Goes In The Mouth Effects The Feet]
In the past, the horses have been done around 5 weeks. Six at a stretch. Sometimes as short as 4 weeks in the summer. Milton could go longer, but he gets done when the team gets done.
I suspect that the period will shorten as we get into mud season and then stomping season. Perhaps they can go 5 or 6 weeks in the summer instead of 4 or 5 weeks.
Since I know at least one reader who is not up on the minutia of horse shoes (waves hi!), here is why this is exciting news.
Going longer between shoeings gives the horses time to grow more foot.
The change is a sign that their feet are stronger.
An accumulation of additional weeks means having to pay for one less shoeing at some point in the future.
All good.
What is not good is how hard it is for me to write about horse shows shoes. I make that typo every. single. freaking. time.
Onwards!
Katherine
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