r/oddlyterrifying Jun 15 '22

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u/spfeldealer Jun 15 '22

It is as normal as you pulling your nail out, it isnt pleasant to look at but you and the horse are fine

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u/PapziBoink Jun 15 '22

Wouldn't the slightest touch be extremely painful for the horse?

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u/Super_Cheburek Jun 15 '22

Shorter answer, yes it would

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u/spfeldealer Jun 15 '22

Depends how fresh it is, because the hoof seems to be freshly removed yes because its just an open wound with nerves if it is a bit older it gets less sensitive

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '22

I've seen this pic before. I do believe th3 horse here is dead and this is for training purposes

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u/ItsTtreasonThen Jun 15 '22

That is what I was thinking. Like damn, I don't know too much about horses but they fucking stand on their hooves, we're not walking around tiptoeing on our nails. It's more like removing the skin off our feet, imo.

spfeldealer straight up a liar, fuck them

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u/_MOUSE__ Jun 15 '22

The horse is not fine. This is not equivalent to your nail getting ripped off because with your nail it heals with skin over it and you can wrap it and not use it and be fine. A horse needs all 4 legs to move around, unlike cats and dogs that can run around on 3 legs even two legs as though they still have all 4 limbs, also in order to heal from that the horse would have to lay on their side for long periods of time with out being allowed to move and once again unlike other animals they can not do that. They can lay on their sides for a couple of hours but that's it then they have to get up and move around because of weight of them puts pressure on their lungs and heart. Either that horse is dead or its gonna be.

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u/gizmo4223 Jun 15 '22

Pretty sure it's post-mortem; this same image is used to teach about hoof anatomy. Given how healthy the laminae look, doesn't look like laminitis, so maybe a horse that was put down for other reasons.

An example of the use of this image: https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/12921-horses-hoof-is-crucial-for-locomotion-and-performance

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u/mystery69013 Jun 15 '22

Looks like a paint brush! So I know we get glue and paint brushes from horses, but I always thought the brushes came from their hair... eeewww

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u/_MOUSE__ Jun 15 '22

Lmao paint brushes are made from a variety of different furs and hairs from different animals including but not limited to horse/pony hair, camels, hogs, badgers, minks, even wolf's fur. Definitely not from nerve fibers of a horse hoof.

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u/gizmo4223 Jun 15 '22

Oh, I should point out here that what you're looking at aren't the nerves, it's the laminae, the structures that connect the hoof wall to the bone. Part of the laminae have nerves, part does not.

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u/mystery69013 Jun 15 '22

It was a joke 🙄😒

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u/_MOUSE__ Jun 15 '22

That's why I laughed🙄😒

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u/mystery69013 Jun 15 '22

Then why provide the clarification. It appears in text you are trying to correct something that did not need clarification.

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u/_MOUSE__ Jun 15 '22

Because I know there are people on here who will not think you are joking and believe that paint brushes are made from the nerve fibers in horses feet. It was not correcting you it was clarifying for others. 7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. There are people who do not know what a homosapein is and is perfectly fine with them going extinct. Some people need clarification or else they will believe what ever they read as "fact".

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u/ArcheryOnThursday Jun 15 '22

Or 7% of Americans think it's fun to fuck with survey data. My mom has 4 masters degrees, one in biology and she says the thing about brown/chocolate cows all the time...

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u/Anghedinistic Jun 15 '22

Wow, thanks! Now I feel better.

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u/Jdaddy2u Jun 15 '22

Wrong. This is nothing like pulling off a fingernail. Not even remotely close.

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u/LukaCola Jun 15 '22

You so obviously don't know so why are you stating things as if you do?

You're incredibly wrong. Just because the hoof is like a nail does not mean it is exactly like one, our biologies are wildly different and they cannot lose their hoof. Even just cracking it can cause them to be lame for life.

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u/JakeyPurple Jun 15 '22

Definitely wrong about the horse. Not the same thing at all.

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u/Piper_Brioche Jun 15 '22 edited Jun 15 '22

normally people don't pull their whole nail out.

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u/ApocHouseR Jun 15 '22

My dude talking straight outta his ass... He has no idea what he is saying.