My name is Jason Brand, the son of John Brand and owner of Buckaroo Leather Products. Our family owned business has been producing high quality leather made tack for over 30 years. This article is one of many that we will continue to post on the horse tack, how to care for your products, the history, their uses, and much more.

The use of animal hides for clothing and basic survival items can be traced back as far as Early Man in the Paleolithic period. Cave paintings discovered in caves near Lerida in Spain depict the use of leather clothing. Man hunted wild animals for food but removed their hides and skins from the dead carcass and used them as crude tents, clothing and footwear.

Early man realized that the skins rapidly putrefied and thus became useless. They needed a way to preserve the hides. The earliest method was to stretch the hides and skins on the ground to dry, rubbing them with fats and animals brains while they dried. This had a limited preserving and softening action. Primitive man discovered also that the smoke of wood fires could preserve hides and skins, as did treating them with an infusion of tannin-containing barks, leaves, twigs and fruits of certain trees and plants. It seems likely that man first discovered how to make leather when he found that animal skins left lying on a wet forest floor became tanned naturally by chemicals released by decaying leaves and vegetation.

Much later the use of earth salts containing alum as a tanning agent to produce soft white leather was discovered. The alum leathers could be dyed with naturally occurring dyestuffs in various plants. In Egyptian times leather was used for sandals, clothes, gloves, buckets, bottles, shrouds for burying the dead and for military equipment. In Egyptian tombs, wall paintings and artifacts depicted these uses of leather.

The Romans also used leather on a wide scale for footwear, clothes, and military equipment including shields, saddles and harnesses. Excavation of Roman sites in Great Britain has yielded large quantities of leather articles such as footwear and clothing.The manufacture of leather was introduced to Britain by the Roman invaders and by religious communities, whose monks were expert at making leather, especially vellum and parchment for writing purposes.

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Proper horseshoeing is in my opinion not to be overlooked the slightest. The truth is very small deviations in what is "Correct" shoeing can and will lead to lameness and too many times it's a permanent lameness. When horse owners become lulled into a false sense of security feeling or thinking "well my horse has been fine all these years" it can often times be the recipe for disaster. The repetitive motion and the amount of use can build up to a lameness at "any" time. All horses are different and all have different levels of being prone to lameness issues or not. A small deviation in what should be done to a horses foot over the years can add up to wear and tear on joints and ligaments and seemingly overnight a horse can come up permanently lame.

If this all sounds like an alarming message, well, it is. Horses everywhere come up lame at the least expecting moment and the object of this message is to help prevent you or your horse suffering needlessly.

What do you do about prevention? Very simply you need to get the very best education and information possible. Unfortunately, for the most part getting the information and education is not a simple task. I have to point out there is a reason so many horses are lame in the first place, basically it's incorrect shoeing practices promoted by leaders in the industry - the schools and textbooks. To cut right to the chase there is a long list of necessary procedures needed to prevent lameness and the risk of lameness and very few places to really get the truth to empower you to protect yourself. And that is what this article is about. A resource for you is available, Not just any resource but "The Resource" proven by a 16 year 100 % track record - NOT ONE SINGLE LAME HORSE due to the practices.

This is made available by simply going to the website listed below in the author bio and leaving contact information for yourself.

Thank you so much, for the prevention of lameness i salute you.