Horses are regarded as one of the most successful animals in human evolution. Since ancient times, horses have been used as a means of transportation. Especially in ancient times, horses played an important role in people's daily life. Nowadays, they are more used as an entertainment, such as riding horses or watching horse races. No matter in ancient times or in modern times, horses are trimmed every once in a while, and there are even special horseshoe trimmers. This is mainly because the horse has to walk a lot every day, which is a great loss to the horse's length, and it will also cause serious wear and tear. In the long run, the sand and stones on the road will wear the cuticle of the racecourse, and the horse will carry people and goods, which will speed up the wear and tear of the horse factory, and the wear and tear will make the horseshoe bloody to a certain extent, so the horse will become slow and even unable to walk. This situation can be avoided by putting something with a protective yard on the horse.
For Malay who often needs to walk on hardened sand, the most suitable material for this protective sleeve is iron products, so there is a special horseshoe nailed to the horseshoe. This horseshoe is a later U-shaped iron piece with hollow grooves in the middle, and nails are nailed into these grooves, so as to ensure that the horseshoe is not light and easy to fall off. However, it can't be done once and for all after nailing the iron hoof, and it needs to be replaced and trimmed regularly. The horseshoe will be damaged to some extent when the horse is walking, and the horseshoe will grow. Every time it is replaced, the hoof repairman will take off the horseshoe and polish it with special tools. Shorten the newly grown horseshoes, and an experienced master can trim four horseshoes and order new iron shoes in less than half an hour. When you see the master laboriously trimming the horseshoe stone, many people will wonder, won't the horse feel pain when he drives a nail into the horseshoe so vigorously?
The answer is no. Horseshoe has only one toe. If human fingers are used, the horse is actually walking with the middle finger, and the thick layer on the horseshoe often grows a layer of keratin, which is the same as our nails, but the cuticle of horseshoe is about three centimeters thick, and there are no nerves distributed here. When people trim or nail nails for ten yards, they will not feel pain. In fact, the principle is similar to that of our nails. Then again, if Ma really feels pain, the horseshoe-trimming master can't finish the four hooves so safely, and the horse's strong hind legs have already kicked him off. The domestic horse will be specially trimmed, so what about the wild horse? Don't wild horses need to be trimmed or nailed?
Wild horses have been used to the wild environment for a long time, and different from domestic horses, wild horses don't need to bear loads, and their horseshoes wear slowly. Wild horses can freely master the running speed range every day, and their horseshoes will naturally wear at the same speed as their growth. If their horseshoes are really long, wild horses can also run a few more laps on the grassland, and naturally they will wear in a balanced state, so wild horses don't need to trim their horseshoes. However, when wild horses are injured and can't run, their hooves will grow wildly, but these horses will also be wiped out by other carnivores, so we can't see wild horses that need to be trimmed.