The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) will launch its third national equine study in May. Equine 2015 will take an in-depth look at U.S. equine operations and provide the industry with new and valuable information regarding trends in the equine industry from 1998 to 2015.

The scenario can begin in different ways. One involves you pulling the shoes, trimming the feet and noticing a small cavity just inside the white line. Picking up a nail, you give it a scratch and a powder-like substance comes out. More scratching leaves you part way up the hoof wall. Another involves having a horse with hoof walls separating in the most distal part of the foot. While probing the separation, you discover that not only is it separated at the bottom, it goes much higher.

The value of a tailored diet and exercise program for horses and ponies prone to laminitis due to equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) has been shown in a British study.

Connie Larson discusses the importance of keratin for quality equine hoof health.

Are you finding that you're not getting the results you hoped for when using cryotherapy? Perhaps the affected leg isn't getting enough coverage.

The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation is allocating more than $1.1 million for a slate of equine research in 2015.

The Kentucky Equine Research staff discusses how nutrition can directly affect laminitic cases.

Brian Hampson, Chris Pollitt and colleagues at the Australian Brumby Research Unit at the University of Queensland, completed a study in 2010 in which they sought to determine the affect of various environmental conditions on the degree of hydration in hoof horn wall tissue from feral horses.