It's cool. It's not really hurting the horse, & it helps you do your job. The horsey people will understand....He should have been trained before this, but some owners are irresponsible...

You all are the experts. Do what you got to do. The previous owner should have had this young horse on a training program all around. Just my opinion. Great job!

Hey, there's the ideal world where this little yearling would have been taught to always yield to pressure on the lead rope, be perfectly okay with standing quietly for a farrier, would show up for a regular trim clean and groomed, etc. In this world, the sky is blue and you get to work with the horse in front of you, just as they are presented to you. His feet were a particular medical problem for him because of his age--no way are his growth plates closed yet and that abnormal stance forced on him by those overgrown feet will lead to him being crippled for life. So you put him in a safe environment and set up the situation where he could teach himself what he needed to know. You could then trim up his feet and save him from a short life full of pain. Seems like a good day's work to this once upon a time rider (except I rode off track Thoroughbreds before it was considered some mighty feat of daring).

So it doesn’t look to bad and how that horse stood after you were done justified the action taken. You can see how much better it can stand. Another great job sir. 👍👍

Better 5 minutes discomfort than a possible broken leg.

My thoughts exactly!

This is still better than tayler swfits new song.

I work in Healthcare. It's not only the disabled but alot more that family members put their senior family members through. It's awful

@@meghanking5395 yeah. and it doesn’t help that everyone is constantly under economic stress which often forces them to make choices they otherwise might not. i’m sure it’s the same way with some of these horses. grandma dies and no one knows what to do with her horse so they just leave it to roam in the pasture until they’re so lame they can’t function.

THere's this trend sweeping many states called R+ which means no negative training EVER. You can't say no, you can't use a flag, etc. Pressure and release is considered mean, any pressure is considered mean. They only thing allowed is treats and petting. It you have a friendly horse that is carefully raised and not too pushy, it can work OK but it's very time consuming and some horses just don't respond well. For instance they'll spend 4 months trying to lure a scared horse with carrots instead of just roping it and making more progress in 15 minutes that 4 months of bribing did. They think they are more humane to leave the horse terrified for 4 months or longer though and they are so convinced that roping and such is evil that they won't even take the time to try it or see it done. If their method can't get a horse to walk safely on a lead, they'll just consign that horse to never leaving the corral and this is their version of kindness. They have already decided the horse can't be fixed with other methods and you are considered mean to even suggest it, so their world view is never challenged, that's what we are dealing with here. These people ARE horse people too, they are horse people who either get very sweet natured horses or they can't safely handle them. The rescues that run like this have a lot of horses that are just sedated whenever something need to be done with them.

@@OnceUponaTimeline people anthropomorphize animals too much.

Late winter/early spring in Idaho is mud and snow globs in the winter hair coat time. That colt is well fed even though he is dirty. Most horses across the frozen/muddy northern states in the USA WANT to be muddy this time of year. They can't wait to find good mud to roll in and then prance back to their shelter as if they spent the day in a spa mud bath.

​​@@348Tobico ...but I never would let grow the hooves like this! ...it must be a long time nobody looked for this horse!

​@@Ida-fz3irdon't quote me, but I'm pretty sure that colt is a yearling

@@elizabetharcher8762 for sure...it's even more dangerous for his joints, bones and tendons...it is obviously no 'wild horse'!

I hope this poor guy was going into rescue. Thank you for being so kind and gentle with him.

“Who’s whining so much?” “Oh, that’s just the new kid. Don’t worry, he’s fine.” “Hobble belt again?” “Yep. He’ll figure it out eventually.” Meanwhile: “I can’t stand in these conditions!”

​@@rebeccab719 "I am a PONY! You can't do this to my pony dignity!"

And groom him! That poor thing is in quite a state.

If it helps you visualize it and know what to expect as far as length being taken off, basically what you want is for the top of the hoof [that doesn't touch the ground] to be a straight line. Usually before a trim, you can see a bit of a curve to it. It's trimmed down until that curve is straight again! :) There's a more technical way to say all this, but I figured a simple explanation is always best.

There's still a lot of peeps that use a twitch. I really hate to see it unless it truly is an emergency. Otherwise, give it a sedative if you can, the twitching makes them distrustful, they don't forget that.

I think the rocking after the rim is because they are in discomfort. Their ligaments and tendons have been stretched and contracted into a habitually abnormal position and all of a sudden, they are standing on anatomically normal feet. They are going to be acutely sore for several days at the very least and achy for several weeks while those ligaments, tendons and muscles go back to a normal alignment. Some people think it would be better to do such deformed hooves in small increments stretched out over a couple months but what I've seen with that is that it just prolongs the horse's pain.

He might have been off the range with a wild herd. It looks like it has a hernia and at least one of its hooves had a gouge right above the heel bulb. I would hope that it wasn’t due to owner neglect.

Naw...he's co-dependent on his buddies. They get like that sometimes. Scared horses try to get away...fight vs flight...

@@cindyrissal3628 Co-dependcy happens when one is scared and they need support from others. So yeah, he was scared. You pretty much agreed with me.

So what's your explanation for the relaxed tail, the ears in the concentration position, the pointy upper lip (which is the sign of a horse thinking things over calmly), the relaxed neck, relaxed eyes, etc? I think he hasn't been handled enough yet to be comfortable when away from the herd but his discomfort didn't rise to the level of showing any tension whatsoever in his body language.

The title says "SCARED Young Horse"

Herd animals like horses are always more comfortable in the presence of others of their like.

Huh. He sounded just like umpteen bajillion other short yearlings I've heard that haven't been handled enough to be comfortable being away from the herd. High pitched whinnies, 1 to 3 in a row, pause to listen for replies, several more, pause to listen for reply, etc. If you look at his body language, his tail was relaxed the entire time, his ears were either in the concentration position (up but turned sideways) or pricked to listen for replies from the barn. His upper lip was pointy rather than squared off, which is another body language tell that means a horse is thinking about the situation they are in and figuring out how to deal with it. His neck was relaxed, not tight or bowed out along the lower line with tension. His eyes were relaxed--not open so wide you could see the whites, just relaxed as he thought things through. Nothing in his body language said fear--a horse that was in fear would be a lot more tensed up than that little yearling. What I saw was a short yearling that was way more concerned that he wasn't with the herd than he was about that strap around his leg. Overall, not so concerned about anything that he was reflecting any tension in his body language, which is where horses show tension first, far before they start vocalising.

Maybe the horse was a rescue

One can hope! ❤