It’s excellent for wound care Tea tree oil can be found in many products for wound care on horses. This is because tea tree oil’s natural antibacterial effect helps keeps wounds clean and free of infection. Can you put tea tree oil directly on wounds? Often used for its widespread Read more…
Nails are driven in, oblique to the walls. They enter the wall at the outside edge of the white line and they emerge at the wall’s surface, about 15 to 20 mm from the base of the wall. The wall is anatomically analogous to the human fingernail or toenail. Do Read more…
eponychium. What are baby horse hooves called? The hooves of foals are called eponychium, but are also known as “fairy fingers” or “golden slippers”. The term Eponychium is used to describe the deciduous hoof capsule in veterinary-medical and embryological literature. Do baby horses have hooves? When a baby horse, called Read more…
Corrective Trimming In most cases, your farrier will need to shorten the toe of the hoof and add height to the heel. It will take an extended period of time to correct the shape of your horse’s hoof enough to eliminate the appearance of having a flat foot. Can you Read more…
When horses are born, their hooves are covered in a rubbery layer called a deciduous hoof capsule. This capsule covers the sharp edges of the foal’s untried hooves, protecting both the foal and its mother from injury during birth. What does a horse hoof look like at birth? When a Read more…
Club foot can occur before or after birth in foals. After birth foals acquire club feet when the bones grow faster than the tendons. What causes clubfoot in a horse? The equine club foot is defined as a hoof angle greater than 60 degrees. What we see externally as the Read more…
Shoes decrease the natural flexibility of the hoof which is needed for optimal hoof mechanism. Hooves and lower legs of shod horses are normally colder and more prone to injury because of lack of circulation. Also horn quality and growth speed can be affected by the lack of nutrients and Read more…
Many times the treating veterinarian or farrier applies special hoof-patching glue over the screws so they do not work their way out of the hoof wall. Veterinarians and farriers commonly use such polymer and acrylic patching materials or “glue” to stabilize and repair hoof cracks. How do you fix a Read more…
A horse hoof is the lower extremity of each leg of a horse, the part that makes contact with the ground and carries the weight of the animal. It is both hard and flexible. Does a hoof hurt a horse? Like human nails, horse hooves themselves do not contain any Read more…
Microchipping a horse is a quick and simple procedure. The chip is inserted, using a needle in the back of the neck so it doesn’t move – it takes seconds. Horses can be checked for a microchip using a handheld electronic device, called a scanner. What is a chip in Read more…