Flip-flops are the footwear of choice for a great number of people around the world. Now, they are becoming increasingly popular in the equine world, as well.
The transition that happens when bringing a horse from the track to the farm often requires more intense farrier care than the average farm resident can provide. Clearly, a farrier working at a farm shoeing yearlings or broodmares will not have the same objectives that he or she does when at the track. At the farm your farrier will generally use larger nails, heavier shoes, and a tighter heel fitting. While this is not necessarily ideal, it is highly practical.
Bug, a 5-year-old Spanish mustang mare rescued at 3 months old, and her trainer will be competing in the Trainer’s Challenge of the Unwanted Horse, a competition that challenges young horse trainers to showcase untrained rescue horses in hopes of becoming adopted.
As a New York City Hall candidate, he vowed to ban horse carriages on “day one” — but Mayor de Blasio is finally admitting he bit off more than he can chew.
Disease of the navicular bone, also called the distal sesamoid bone, and its associated soft tissues often are at the root of chronic forelimb lameness. Though young horses might be affected, navicular disease typically crops up in mature riding horses.
“Prevention is better than cure” is a well-known medical maxim – and when a disease has no cure, prevention is essential. Laminitis, the second-biggest killer of horses today, is a crippling, incurable affliction in which the connective tissue between a horse’s foot and hoof begins to fall apart.
Many service members wake up early to perform their duties, but very few spend their days tending to the highly trained horses that carry our nation’s fallen soldiers to their final resting places.
We sat down with Mark Ellis, a Wisconsin farrier who learned the ropes with Renchin and went on to enjoy a 38-year career in hoof care.
In this episode sponsored by Life Data Labs, Ellis details how he started working for Renchin.
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