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.

See more images and coverage from the Glu-Tech seminar on using adhesives and other glue-on insights.

Colic and laminitis, two of the most common equine ailments, can both result from overconsumption of high-carbohydrate concentrates or lush grass. Research has supported this cause-and-effect relationship, but the full story is more complicated.

Laminitis, a serious hoof condition that cripples many horses, can be caused by a number of different things. Ingestion of moldy feed, retained placentas in mares, and colitis or other gastrointestinal tract infections are only a few of the scenarios that can result in inflammation that affects the sensitive tissues within the hooves. The result is pain, swelling, and disrupted circulation, often leading to untreatable tissue damage that eventually causes the horse to be humanely destroyed.

Ask anyone who suffers from arthritis what it's like, and you'll hear just one word repeated and repeated - pain. And you won't have to look very far to find people to ask. In some cases, you don't even need to ask - you can tell just by watching them move; they don't like to because it hurts.

To shoe or not to shoe, that is the question. Answers vary widely, and often without objectivity. Steve Kraus has developed a protocol that tries to shed light on whether a horse should be shod.

Watch the top 10 viewed videos from the American Farriers Journal YouTube channel, AFJTV, for the month of January 2014.

A trio of farriers kicked off Thursday's sessions of the International Hoof-Care Summit with business tips that promises to boost efficiency, save time and keep you healthy.

Randy Luikart got the ball rolling for the second day of the International Hoof-Care Summit with the Burney Chapman Memorial Lecture. The Ashland, Ohio, farrier stressed the importance of the weight-bearing phase during equine locomotion.

Donkey taxi owners and horse-drawn carriage drivers must pass regular inspections under a new code of conduct that ensure that the animals are fit to ferry tourists around Mijas, Anadalucia, Spain.