Horses — paddock paradise

Who Invented Paddock Paradise? Paddock Paradise was designed by a former farrier named Jaime Jackson. In the 1980s, he began to study feral horses and their interactions with their natural surroundings. It was discovered that wild horses can suffer from hoof conditions such as laminitis and navicular disease. These are also two common conditions in domesticated horses. Using this discovery, Jackson experimented with methods to trim a domesticated horse’s hoof that was more like the natural hoof and this allowed the horse to be bare foot or without shoes. He developed the ‘wild horse trim’ and wrote a book containing...