What is Paddock Paradise?

A remarkable natural environment for horses

Welcome to Paddock Paradise, natural horse care advocate Jaime Jackson's groundbreaking adventure in natural boarding for horses Based on Jackson's legendary research on wild horses, Paddock Paradise is a revolutionary model for safe, natural horsekeeping, hoof care, and the healing and rehabilitation of lame horses. The premise of Paddock Paradise is to stimulate horses to behave and move naturally according to their instincts. This is the key, according to Jackson, to having physically and mentally healthier horses. This unique and unprecedented model is adaptable to virtually all size horse properties, regardless of climate, and fits all equine breeds regardless of how they are used. Consider some of the following benefits for creating a Paddock Paradise for your horses:
- Encourages constant movement, as nature intended.
- Greater movement means natural hoof wear with fewer bills.
- Protects horses from dangerous founder-prone pastures.
- Minimizes the need for warm-up exercise time before riding.
- Helps address neurotic behavior by providing natural outlets.
- Provides an effective means for diet and weight management.
- Adaptable for breeding, foaling, multiple horse operations.

Paddock Paradise Includes:

- Template for making your paddock
- Hundreds of ideas
- Sample paddocks created by
practitioners and horse owners
- Resources

True Natural Boarding for Horses

What Horse Owners have to
say about Paddock Paradise:

I could not be happier with my Paddock
Paradise. The horses move all the time.

They keep their weight down easier than
before and the top line muscles in my 20
year old has shown some development.

Their hooves are also better because
they are on hard dry ground. I've seen
improvement in concavity in both horses.

The horses seem to love it -
they are always on the move

The is the new, updated and fully revised edition of Jaime Jackson's original and classic work on natural hoof care. Teeming with hundreds of exciting photographs and technical drawings. This is the premier work on natural trimming and high performance barefooted horses.Jackson invites horse owners, farriers, and vets from all equine disciplines to learn more about this unprecedented development in the horse world: genuine natural hoof care based on the most perfect hoof care model in the world - the wild horse hoof. If you want your horse to be sound, live a long and full life, and be in possession of the best possible feet any of us could ever imagine, then join me in the greatest hoof care adventure of your life. Natural hoof care is where it's at.

From the Foreword: This book provides a concise and useful guide for horse owners to take immediate and productive action against laminitis and keep it out of their horses' lives once and for all . . . Nipping away at the edges of the laminitis] plague, NHC continues to grow with adherents who want nothing better than what is good for their horses. So, the answer lies not in a drug-addicted world of 'treating symptoms' but in the holistic fold of equine vitality. There is no shortage of things that we all can, and should, do to support this end: more responsible horse ownership, good science, good research, safe feeds, safe drugs, and a revolutionary new vanguard of allied services that inure to the healthful vitality of the horse, not a perpetual state of laminitis. But we'll never see any of it, if we persist in the delusion that the current stream of 'profits at all costs' -- the industrialization of laminitis -- equates to the well-being of the horse. It doesn't, and the intent of this book is to show why, while pointing to a good path to get ourselves and our horses on 'at all costs'.
Laminitis lays out Jackson's most current thinking and strategies for dealing with this insidious disease of the horse.
Jaime Jackson is a 40 year veteran farrier turned NHC practitioner, researcher, author, and advocate for humane horse care practices. He founded the AANHCP in 2000, and with his colleague Jill Willis, the ISNHCP in 2009. Jackson has written a comprehensive range of books, articles, and PowerPoint lectures on the humane care of horses.

The meaning of balanced hooves in the hoof care world is rife with unsubstantiated opinions and methods that compromise the natural integrity of the hoof and the ability of the horse to move naturally. Few agree on toe length, heel length, relative heel position to frog . . . relative lengths of the medial and lateral heels, front heels versus hind heels . . . on and on. Moreover, this widespread technical disparity continues endlessly by breed, competition, gait, and even hoof color The wild horse model is clear, however, that there shouldn't be this type of incongruity at all. Nature has demonstrated unequivocally what the relationships are between the toe, quarters, heels and other structures of the capsule. Balancing the hoof, therefore, should never be left to chance, even with the most deformed hooves. Indeed, the complexities of capsule wryness, slipper toe, bull-nose, club foot, and under trimmed heels require that we have a clear path to balancing the hoof whatever its unnatural orientation. The Hoof Balancer provides us with a quick, easy, accurate, and efficient way to balance the hoof based on the wild hoof model. It is recommended for use by all hoof care practitioners in the field, particularly when confronted with extreme capsule deformity.

THE WILD, FREE-ROAMING HORSE of the U.S. Great Basin has given us a new vision for a vibrant and healthy natural horse. That vision is embodied in this newly updated and classic work, The Natural Horse: Lessons From the Wild.

Paddock Paradise. Based on wild horse family band movements in their native ranges, Paddock Paradise is a unique tracking system within which horses living together in groups forge their own paths. Horse owners disburse hay and other essentials along these paths to stimulate movement and vitality on track.

Reasonably Natural Diet. Jackson took note in his range studies of the complexity of the wild horse diet. He and his colleagues have deduced a safe diet for horses, but urge the university sector to enter wild horse country to give the wild horse diet the comprehensive research it deserves.

Natural Rider. Jackson holds that a paradigm for the natural rider should be rooted in the Natural Gait Complex of the species as seen in the wild. To this end he has laid out a painstaking analysis of the natural gaits based on his observations of wild horse behaviors.

The Natural Trim. As a professional hoof man fully aware of the damaging effects of shoeing on the horse's hoof, Jackson saw the need to enter wild horse country to see what nature intended for the horse's hoof, and then report his findings. The Natural Horse delivers that message and a trimming method.

Buckskin Tanner
is the author -- Jaime Jackson -- who narrates the
story of his adventure into natural tanning, beginning
in the early 1950s at Disneyland's Indian Village,
where, as a young boy, his father took him to meet
elder Native Americans brought by Walt Disney to
guide park technicians construct the village. This was
during the year before the park officially opened. I
remember a dialogue between my father and some of
the Indians about native tanning and the hide tipis
put together there. The women traditionally tanned
the hides and sewed them together into tipis. But the
hides used here were commercially tanned. I wondered
how they did the tanning during the bygone buffalo
days. And that is how it all began for me.

Navicular is a serious lameness affecting countless horses worldwide, with many going to early deaths as a result. But what is navicular? I am no stranger to it, having observed it first hand as a farrier and later as America's first Natural Hoof Care Practitioner (NHCP). It's not what everyone thinks it is. And that's why horses continue to suffer from it. This book takes you through the complexities of navicular, replacing myths with facts. My mission is to steer horse owners away from practices that inevitably lead to navicular in their horses. Education and the 4 Pillars of NHC are the key to prevention and healing.

Cheyenne Tipi Notes is about a detailed description by anthropologist and ethnographer James Mooney of Southern Cheyenne women tanning cow hides for a historic reproduction of a 19th century hide tipi, between April 28th and June 2nd, 1903, at the Darlington Indian Agency, Oklahoma Territory. What sets this historical record apart from others is that the tipi still exists, perfectly preserved but buried away and virtually forgotten in the underground artifact catacombs of the Chicago Field Museum 115 years later. An experienced tanner himself, author Jaime Jackson not only found Mooney's extant notes at the Smithsonian Institution, and then transcribed them, but found his way to the Field Museum to examine the tipi himself. Putting the two together, Jackson has disentombed and interpreted what happened a century ago, bringing back to life an ancient craft that was central to Plains Indian culture. Cheyenne Tipi Notes is a companion monograph to Jackson's related work, Buckskin Tanner, which provides a step by step account of Plains Indian tanning, including what Indian tanners did to prepare bison
hides for clothing and their tipis.

The Basic Guidelines of the natural trim explain in extraordinary detail how the author managed the remarkable hooves of the horses of the Association for the Advancement of Natural Horse Care Practices (AANHCP) over an eight year period (2010-2018). The horses lived 24/7 on track in the AANHCP Paddock Paradise, providing incontrovertible evidence that the natural trim can facilitate hooves bordering on wildness in a simulated adaptive environment.

The natural trim is a humane trim method for horses that mimics the natural wear patterns of America's wild, free-roaming horses of the Western States Great Basin. These wild horses are also the model for natural horse care (NHC). The Advanced Guidelines of the natural trim replace the Basic Guidelines when hooves suffer from extreme deformity due to disease and traumatic injury.

This basic Natural Trim Training Program is a comprehensive, academic, and hands-on foundational course in the artful science of natural hoof care NHC). The natural trim is a humane, barefoot trimming method that mimics the natural wear patterns of wild, free-roaming horses (aka, the mustang) of the U.S. Great Basin. This action immediately triggers healthy growth patterns, that, when accompanied by other natural holistic practices also based on the wild horse model, eventually result in naturally shaped hooves. By all accounts, this transformation is truly a miracle of nature, but, technically, it is an outcome of the specie's adaptation, embedded in the DNA of every horse living today. It is of paramount importance to recognize that practitioners do not force the foot to look a certain way (e.g., like a wild horse hoof), but facilitate it through the natural trim method of

mimicking wild horse hoof wear patterns.

Guard Your Teeth follows the author's journey from a mouthful of dental
problems to a new, nature-based way of looking at and treating dental disease.
Using good science, an investigation of our Paleolithic ancestors' teeth,
and herbal/minerals formulations, Jackson has formulated an entirely new
paradigm for approaching dental disease and dental care.

Horse Trek: Into the Mystic invites the reader into the author's untold story of a strange Vision Quest that led him into wild horse country, a harrowing journey lasting nearly ten years. But the Vision itself he did not ask for. It came upon me in such a way that I knew I was meant to seek its meaning and purpose. A higher power had clearly chosen me for this Quest. And there was no way out of it, even when I pitted the Vision against my most skeptical and troubling doubts over and over again. But before my very eyes, it literally peeled back the invisible curtain of the natural world that shrouds another hidden reality of mysticism and paranormal forces that connected me to animal spirits that guided my journey. I've decided to tell the story and its many hardships as I recall and lived it. And let the chips fall where they may before the skeptic and believer alike.

This is a science based monograph describing a study relevant to natural horse care practitioners specializing in professional equine hoof care. The study explains how the practitioner can use infrared thermal technology to provide superior hoof care. This technology is used in a novel way to facilitate precision mapping of the equine hoof to aid the practitioner in generating more accurate Critical Measurements used in hoof trimming.

The purpose of this training manual is to guide

you through Step 1 - Independent Study. There is much learning material

for you to go through with diligence, the purpose of which is to prepare you

for your hand's-on training, Step 1 Quiz, Final Written and Field Exams, and

an academic understanding of NHC. The more you bolster your understanding

of NHC principles, the more you will get out of your training in the field.

Your library of educational materials is something you can return to again and

again during training, and even after you've graduated. If you want to be the

best practitioner you can be, then Step 1 is the foundation you will need to

build upon.

The following course text books include a brief of each book followed by a

True/False quiz. The purpose of the quizzes is to aid you in understanding the

material, which will help you to develop a working language of NHC. This will

enable you to speak and communicate in our language with other ISNHCP

students and practitioners. It will also make you more effective in explaining

NHC to your clients.

Many wild animals are now finding refuge from certain extinction in zoos, whose keepers and supporters have truly risen up to help in the highest humanitarian spirit. But is traditional zoo life our best course of action for these dispossessed creatures of the wild who have done nothing at all to deserve their fate? Zoo Paradise takes us into the troubled and shadowy world of modern zoos, bringing light and hope for wild animals living in captivity.

Democratic Egalitarianism is a belief in human equality and opportunity especially with respect to the social, political, and economic lives of a nation's people.

Platform points directly at a new and virulent strain of post-colonial feudalism that has evolved in our country from its inception 243 years ago. The result is a new class society -- the New Feudalism -- comprised of a minority class of billionaire industrialists, a lower wealthy class of multi-millionaires, and a vast and growing population of the near poor, poor, and homeless. 100 million Americans -- a third of our entire population -- now teeter on the brink of poverty. 40 million are impoverished and dependent on a demeaning welfare system. Up to a million more have now fallen into the ranks of the homeless. Americans are a vulnerable society slowly spiraling into poverty, taking our polluted environment with us.

Platform proposes 24 Egalitarian Objectives to change the our course of our descent.