Veterinary medicine keeps coming up with the coolest stuff. This is great because as farriers and horse owners, we get to sometimes participate in cutting edge science.
There seems to be some disagreement among hoof-care professionals as to the extent of the sole's role in weight bearing. The suggestion that the laminar attachment of P3, with transference of the horse's weight to the hoof wall, is not its major means of support is as absurd as suggesting the sole should take no part in weight bearing.
Nutrition can play a role in initiating laminitis, either through precipitating an abrupt change in bacterial flora and releasing an endotoxic shower or directly through a carbohydrate overload. It is also necessary to nutritionally manage the laminitic horse to increase hindgut fermentation.
Travis Burns, chief of farriers services/lecturer at Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, explains in his approach why you shouldn't ignore the secondary concerns of laminitis.
The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation's board of directors announced that the foundation will finance a slate of 19 research projects, including laminitis, worth $1,003,580 in 2014.
From the time of Secretariat's death due to laminitis in 1989 to present day, there have been significant advances made. The goal of this year's the International Equine Conference on Laminitis and Diseases of the Foot was to balance presentations of the latest scientific research and practical information.
In a bid to counter the deadly effects of laminitis, QUT is conducting a worldwide study to understand what predisposes horses to repeatedly fall prey to this chronic disease.
Greg Martin, CJF, of Boerne, Texas, takes the unique approach of marketing his hoof-care practice with a Christmas parade float in Boerne and Comfort, Texas. The award-winning float boasts a variety of surprising features.
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