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I have the opportunity to work with wildlife and I have never seen any wild animal that has naturally worn their hooves parallel to their coronet band. If in the wild animals don't wear their hooves that way, why should we trim that way? It would make sense to me to trim similar to how hooves would naturally wear because animals evolved to have their hooves the way they are. I've attached some pictures I have personally taken of a bighorn sheep, a mule deer, and a mountain goat, and a few pictures of ibex hooves I could find online. None of them are perfectly parallel to the coronet band and seem to have more toe than heel. Are we trimming to an ideal that doesn't make sense?
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