Health
Improve your Horse’s Soundness with Heel-First Landings
Healthy hooves require well developed heel structures to ensure optimum suspension and shock absorption. This is achieved by encouraging your horse...
Health
What to Feed your Horse to Improve Hoof Health and Soundness
Targeted hoof supplements rarely work alone. However, if you feed your horse an overall balanced diet, he will have the best nutritional conditions...
Hoof health
Get your Horse Ready for the Retired Thoroughbred Makeover
Are you looking to enter your horse into the U.S. Thoroughbred Makeover competition or doing your own Retired Racehorse Project at home? This is th...
Hoof health
What can nature teach us about hoof care?
You've decided to pull your horse's shoes. Knowing that you're doing the best you can for your horse is all that counts when it comes to hoof care.
Anatomy
Healthy Shape, Healthy Hoof, Healthy Body
Part 1 of the Brainy Hoof Blog Series - by Christa Lesté-Lasserre ©Christa Lesté-Lasserre NB 2732(2) The equine hoof receives massive forces conce...
Anatomy
How To Do a Mustang Roll
We've all heard so much about Mustang Roll for our horses' hooves. What is so great about a nice, clean mustang roll? And why do we want to even do...
Anatomy
The Flat Footed Horse
What is considered to be a "Flat Footed Horse"? Well, anatomically, the hoof capsule should be a "cozie" for the foot, the P3, inside the capsule. ...
Anatomy
That Certain "Flare"!
There is 'flair' and then, there are "flares" . . . . . . Of course, we all want our horses to have 'flair' but not the "flare" that indicates iss...
Anatomy
Functional Anatomy of the Equine Hoof
It occurred to me this morning, as I'm reading various hoof-help posts, that owners and many hoofcare practitioners have little understanding of wh...
Hoof health
Trimming Hooves for Heel Height and Vertical Toe
Well, that sounds weird -- trimming hooves for heel height. One would think, well, if you keep on trimming the heels they never get the chance to g...
Anatomy
What Do Healthy Hooves Look Like?
It occurred to me this morning, as I was again consulting with someone about her sore-footed horse, that there seems to be a lack of healthy-lookin...
Hoof health
What to do about BRITTLE HOOVES
What causes brittle hooves? What can you do about it? Find out here ... from diet to environment to even mental stress ... how do these things aff...