If you plan to step up your riding routine—for a busy showing season, longer trail rides or other more intensive ...

The benefits of keeping horses barefoot have long been known yet commonly overlooked when it comes to hoof care. A barefoot hoof is able to function as nature intended. It is able to absorb concussion ...

The coffin bone isn’t the thing moving in cases of coffin bone rotation; the horse’s hoof capsule is. The distinction matters ...

In an era wound tight with urgency, Journalism, who moves with patience and lets the chaos pass, is the horse we didn’t know we needed.

His videos, paring down the frog, or fleshy, central toe on the underside of a hoof, or painting on polish, regularly get hundreds of millions of views.

If your horse is prone to abscesses, anything you can do to improve his hoof quality and mass before the winter weather sets in will be helpful, says Redden. “The average foot requires a minimum of 15 ...

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However, if a horse already has thrush when pads are applied, the condition can worsen if improper packing is used. Steve Kraus, a Certified Journeyman Farrier at Cornell University, prefers synthetic ...

The farrier will clean out the foot, assess the frog and sole to trim away loose tags or excess material, then trim the hoof wall to proper length for that particular foot and the horse’s needs.

Foot abscesses have been plaguing us lately. They are scary for the horse, the owner, and us as veterinarians because horses can become very uncomfortable very quickly and we want to know why right ...

Canker, or proliferative pododermatitis, is a disease process resulting in chronic hypertrophic proliferation of hoof tissues. Canker typically starts with the frog but can expand to involve the bars, ...