Showing posts with label Hoof Blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hoof Blog. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

SURVEY: Professional Farriers' and Equine Veterinarians' Attitudes, Knowledge, and Opinions Sought by University of Edinburgh Researchers

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Researchers from the University of Edinburgh’s Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in Scotland are seeking online input from equine ve...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital opens doors for International Equine Podiatry Conference April 18-20, 2024

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Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky will host the third International Equine Podiatry Conference. The doors to the forg...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Meet University of California at Davis new veterinary hospital farrier Ian Davies

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Ian Davies, DipWCF is hard at work in his new job. The British-born and British-educated farrier has joined the University of California Sch...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Prevent laminitis: Wellness Ready stallside insulin tests accelerate Equine Metabolic Syndrome diagnostics

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We all know horse owners who can recite entire pedigrees, race records, or a lifetime of judges' scores. But veterinarians and farriers ...

Farriers at the Herning 2022 FEI World Championships: Who was minding the forge?

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Last week's ECCO FEI World Championships in Herning, Denmark , made farrier history when the event entered into an agreement with Mustad...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

New HISA racing rules for Thoroughbred horseshoe traction to begin July 1 in USA

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New federally-mandated racing safety rules from the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority will be introduced "feet first" thi...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

The Olympic Hoof: Therapeutic plastic horseshoes helped two US dressage silver medal horses in Tokyo

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Horseshoes, like Olympic medals, can be made from different metals. But this week in Tokyo, the world saw that they can also be made of plas...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

The Olympic (Laminitic) Hoof: Dressage horse diagnosed with laminitis before competition begins

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A dressage horse representing South Africa has been withdrawn from the Olympics after developing laminitis at the Olympic Equestrian Center ...
Tuesday, May 04, 2021

Renate Weller appointed vet school dean at University of Calgary

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Renate Weller, an educator and leader in the equine veterinary field in Europe, will become the new Dean of the University of Calgary Facult...
Monday, May 03, 2021

Message to Hoof Blog readers and email newsletter subscribers

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Hoofcare Publishing will be back at work and publishing from the "real" office in town soon. In the meantime, some changes are com...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Remembering Britain's Prince Philip and the Quick-Thinking Farrier

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Prince Philip's brush with danger at the 2013 Royal Windsor Horse Show has almost been forgotten but it could have ended quite different...
Thursday, February 04, 2021

UC Davis Heumphreus equine foot lecture will be a free online event with focus on farriery, surfaces, foot imaging

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Sunday, January 10, 2021

All Creatures Great and Small: James Herriot Begins Career with a Hoof to the Head

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The return of James Herriot's heart-warming "All Creatures Great and Small" stories to American television for the next six Su...
Monday, January 04, 2021

For Auld Lang Syne: New York's forgotten landmarks of hoof history

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I have always wanted to organize a tour of New York City for horse and hoof history, but this might be as close as I can come until life g...
Tuesday, June 09, 2020

Barefoot by the Numbers: Swedish Standardbred trotters are faster without shoes, but risk breaking gait

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Researchers at Sweden's University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) at Uppsala have analyzed the performance records of trotting Sta...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Video abstract on Equine Metabolic Syndrome in Welsh ponies and Morgan horses wins prize at BEVA Congress

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Veterinarians have been upgrading their skills at both communicating information about their research and in making their research mo...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Vet/author/editor/researcher Tim Mair brings a wide range of expertise to new post as BEVA President

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The British Equine Veterinary Association welcomed a new president during the recent BEVA 2019 Congress in Birmingham, England.
Friday, September 13, 2019

Equine Research: BEVA Congress 2019 award goes to Irish paper analyzing progress in equine motion study, including hooves and shoes

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Irish researcher Sonja Egan (right) received the BEVA Congress's Peter Rossdale  Equine Veterinary Journal  (EVJ) Open Award for 201...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Burghley Horse Trials' Best Shod Horse for 2019: What was he wearing...and why?

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Farrier Paul Varnam hot fits a hind lateral extension shoe on Ivar Gooden, an Irish Sport horse judged the "Best Shod Horse" at ...
Monday, September 02, 2019

Labor Day parades: When American horseshoers marched down city streets

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The first Labor Day parades in the United States featured marching horseshoers representing their local trade unions. It was a day of...