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    Have studied with Dr. Eleanor Kellon, VMD, on Cushings/IR in our equine friends. Please visit her website (www.drkellon.com) to learn more on this topic. If you have a Cushings/IR horse you may want to further your education on the matter through her website. There is also a Yahoo group available online for support after you are finished and have further questions. They are an invaluable group.

    Have studied “Nutritional Requirements of the Horse” with Dr. Eleanor Kellon. I highly encourage all to read any number of her books written in regards to this very subject, which are available in your local bookstores and or on her website listed above. There is also a Yahoo support group available as well for continuing questions after the course, and if you are like me you will need to refer to them every so often. There is a lot to digest in this course.

    If you are interested in Natural Hoof Care as a profession I suggest you visit the Liberated Horsemanship group, www.liberatedhorsemanship.com, this group is comprised of some of the very best natural hoof care professionals and clinicians you will find.

    I am now affiliated with this wonderful group of people and will encourage you to visit their website if not for wanting a profession just for the FREE educational material available for your own education.

 

Harmony Natural Horsecare | AANHCP Certified Practitioner, Liberated Horsemanship CHCP

Biography

Hello, my name is Sue Schnur and I live in rural Boone County in the state of, Indiana. On 10 acres we call Windy Hill Farm. We have a myriad of animals, Harmony my paint mare, Raven my Welsh Cobb and Nikala a wonderful young gelding we just acquired last summer. Merlin and Belladonna the resident barn cats and Beauregard de Beauceron and Bach the Noble Newfoundland, the mighty protectors of the humans and animals of the land.

In 2001, I began a Quest, trying to find more natural ways to take care of my horses.  Harmony and Clover (my Arabian mare who is no longer with us ,she crossed the Rainbow Bridge). In my search I found Jaime Jackson and Pete Ramey. They both had written books about natural hoof care and horse keeping. From there the possibilities were endless and the career began.

I started trimming my own horses and attended numerous hoof trimming clinics on which we practiced on cadaver hooves and some live horses. The further along I journeyed the more books I studied and the more resources I found for holistic care. I could not believe the difference in their behavior, and gaits as well as the hoof’s, they no longer split, chipped and or cracked. The proof was in the pudding for me. I was hooked. My horses would never again have another shoe placed on their hoof’s they will have 24/7 turn out (with some shelter of course) continuous movement and free choice grass hay and no sweet feed. This became my mantra.

A couple of years after I started trimming Pete Ramey came to Clinton Anderson’s place in Ohio (at the time) so off I went to the weekend long clinic and this really helped to put a lot of things into perspective for me, after two years of trimming my own horses I decided to further my education and pursue certification through the AANHCP organization.

Along this part of my journey I had the pleasure of attending the Gateway Clinics in Missouri and met up with so many talented hoof care professionals it has been awesome. I have also met, studied and mentored with a group of wonderful individuals who have applied the fundamentals of natural horse keeping. They have developed their Hoof Care practices and provide care for hundreds of strong barefoot horses. Some of these have had laminitis, navicular, wry foot and /or founder, and some that just needed to get out of their “horseshoes” and literally let their hooves breathe.

Here I am several years later wanting to share this wonderful and very practical approach to equine husbandry with all who want to travel down the barefoot road. To let the horse be as nature intended them to be. My practice is very strong and growing every month. I am so honored to be able to work with such a noble beast as the horse and help the owners to understand their natural life way and to help you along the road to natural horsekeeping, which in turn costs less for you and brings the horse much needed health and peace of mind. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns you may have.