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Horse Hoof Care

Hoof care includes farriery, picking out the hooves, and dealing with problems with a farrier and veterinarian. Articles include topics such as evolution of the equine foot, dealing with issues (such as laminitis, thrush, abscesses, etc.), using boots for protection, using products such as oil and hardener, dealing with mud, tips from farriers and veterinarians on foot care, dealing with sore feet, helping your horse deal with the farrier, behavior involving the feet, barefoot vs. shod, natural hoof care, vocabulary of farriers, shoeing solutions, care during winter, spring, summer, and fall, and more. If you want to keep your equine partner's feet in good health, then check out the archives of Horse Illustrated for answers to all of your pressing questions involving horse hoof care.

In this installment of "Two Minutes with Tab," Certified Journeyman Farrier Tab Pigg looks at a horse with under run heels and shows how targeted trimming can help correct this issue.https://youtu.be/RBy6V-8N6Kk Certified Journeyman Farrier Tab Pigg is a technical specialist...
Edited Press Release Keeping horse’s hooves in optimal condition is a hot topic among horse owners and enthusiasts. Theories and misinformation abound and are regular complications when contemplating hoof care. Vettec understands the need to provide better education on this...
What do you do when your horse comes in from the pasture with a loose shoe? You might be tempted to leave it alone and hope that it stays put until your farrier can make a trip out to...
Applying thrush treatment to a horse's hoof

Thrush

What it is: A disease of the hoof’s frog, with an accompanying secondary bacterial infection. In extreme cases it can destroy the frog, to the point of causing damage to deeper structures.Symptoms: Foul-smelling, gooey black discharge in the frog,...
Abscess (hoof abscess, sole abscess)What it is: A pocket of infection in the foot.Symptoms: Lameness, which can be severe; heat in the foot (hoof feels warm); swelling and redness in the bulbs of the heel; a dark area on...
Q: I work at a therapeutic riding barn and one of the horses has thrush. He is 25 years old and we are not using him for riding right now. What exactly is thrush, and how can I treat...
From Texas A&M; College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical SciencesThe purchase of a horse alone can be costly enough, but horses have certain requirements that need to be met that generally far outweigh the cost of the horse itself....
Q: I recently bought a three-year-old mare. The first time we had the farrier out, she immediately became nervous and wouldn't cooperate with them. The farrier's assistant put a chain over her nose, which didn't help at all. Now...
Hooves are made of a hard, crusty protein called keratin. You cannot add keratin by painting it on – it is produced by specialized cells within the hooves called keratinocytes, which rely on a nutrient-rich blood supply.Key nutrients for...
  Abscess Symptoms: Abscesses in the hoof are typically characterized by sudden-onset, severe lameness. In some cases, the horse may refuse to put any weight at all on the affected hoof. The horse will be sensitive in the area of the abscess...
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