Hoof Care

The second week of July recognizes National Farriers Week. National Farriers Week began in 1998 “to honor farriers who pay attention to detail, approach their work in a professional manner, seek to improve their...

In Frog Talk, Part I last month, we discussed frog trimming and looked at various frog pictures of all kinds of shape and form. In this second part of Frog Talk, we are going...

Submitted by David Landreville, Guest HCPWhen I first started trimming I thought the goal was to have horses that could travel barefoot all day over rocks.  Since then I've realized that this is where...

I had the privilege last weekend of riding 155 miles through the great foothills at the Empire Cienega Resource Conservation area southeast of Tucson. The Las Cienega Pioneer and Old Pueblo Pioneer rides are...

As I travel, I not only observe the horse’s feet but also the environment they come from.  The influence of the environment on the horse’s foot is incredible.  Even in our local Northeastern area,...

I mentioned that I was going to leave her flaky sole in there and just lower that hoof wall to get her sole more in contact with the ground. I could've knifed out the...

Ricky Bobby is now at just over three weeks since his shoes were pulled. Last Saturday his right front sole was showing signs of shedding. I gently scraped the surface of it with a knife,...

This is the first issue in a mini series on hoof capsule distortions, short HCD.During these blogs, we'll examine the reasons why the occur, how we identify them, what we can do to correct...

In 2012 I wrote a blog about retracted soles, describing an appearance of the sole with seemingly "good concavity and sole callus" that in reality can be quite dysfunctional, and lead to lameness:"Retracted soles are...

This last year has been a huge year for me in natural horse care and natural hoof trimming. While I have trimmed my horses for the past several years, I haven't had to deal...