Although it's ideal to use boots when icing a horse's hooves, many other items around your home can be used such as jeans, plastic grocery bags and inner tubes from large truck tires.
It's the height of summer. Temperatures are soaring, the ground is scorched. This explains why your client's horse's feet are dry, chipped, cracking, even abscessing - right?
The farrier discusses some common issues he finds with zoo animals and how attending the International Hoof-Care Summit helps him address things like abscesses
Geoff Goodson uses the Golden Mean to measure hooves. The Golden Mean refers to the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one.
A client has obtained a rescue horse, which I trimmed about 10 weeks ago. At that time, the frog was gone from three hooves. I didn’t think anything about it since most horses were shedding frogs at that time.
American Farriers Journal is excited and honored to celebrate its 50th anniversary of publishing the hands-on magazine for hoof-care professionals. Learn more about our special edition, which comes out in December 2024.
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Kawell develops and produces copper alloy horseshoes and inserts, giving horses the care that they need to fight issues associated with white line disease, seedy toe and thrush.
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