Very often, certainly in the argument of barefoot versus shod, comparisons re made between the wild and domestic horse. But in reality,...

Farriery, until recently, has been based on tradition, anecdotal evidence and personal experience, but with the introduction of objective...

To understand the hoof – horse connection there are certain principles of hoof biomechanics we must first appreciate. How the hoof...

Pilot study into the accuracy of an external template for the assessment of dorso - palmar hoof balance according to internal...

we, both owners and professionals, are failing to recognise pain and lameness in our horses, but there is technology available now that...

Farriery has, up till recently, been largely based on anecdotal evidence and experiential opinion. We are entering a new era of...

There is much debate about the ideal angle for the pedal bone to sit at in relation to the ground. Some sects suggest a palmar angle of 0...

Winter is coming and with it comes the rain and mud and boggy fields. The reality is in the wild horses would never choose to stand in...

For thousands of years horses roamed the grasslands, surviving, thriving and all without the need for something applied to the bottom of...

Nature has an inherent ability to improve, to adapt, to survive and to overcome. The miracle of the evolutionary complexities that it...

Hoof pastern axis (HPA) is a term for the relationship between the hoof and the pastern. There are three categories for HPA; broken back,...

Tensegrity, a combination of the words “tension” and “integrity”, is a principle that has been used in structural engineering for...

Every biological entity is made up of systems upon systems, existing in symbiosis for the collective good. Even our own evolutionary...

Social norms are a collective representation of acceptable group conduct and an individual’s perception of their particular groups...

This debate is often fiercely contested and remains controversial with two schools of thought, traditionally diametrically opposed. As...

Most horses will suffer with a severe unilateral lameness at one time in their life, when this is for prolonged periods of time, such as...

The ability to withstand concussive and load forces is vitally important in musculoskeletal health and the hoof is on the front line. At...

There is conflicting rhetoric traversing the social universe about the importance and ideals of phalangeal alignment and stance angles,...

Shoeing cycle length is a vitally important factor in hoof health and controlling the morphological changes associated with hoof growth...

The relationship between conformation and hoof morphology has been studied, Curtis (2002) outlined the effect of limb deformities on hoof...

Navicular syndrome (NS) is all too common a pathology, one paper expressed it as appertaining to a third of all forelimb lameness’ and...

Often horses and their teams of professionals struggle with perpetuating cycles. Vets, and physios in particular struggle with...

Why do so many ex-racehorses have bad feet? This very interesting question was asked to me recently and the answer is complexed. There is...

There is a long list of factors that influence the amount of length a farrier shoes a horse with, many are environmental; type of work,...

A question that is asked very often whenever people are looking for advice on farriery related issues is “what shoe would you put on for...

A horses conformation is the way it is made up, its structure, how its body parts relate to each other and how it is proportioned....