Showing posts with label Hoofcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hoofcare. 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...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Horseshoer Joe Alfano celebrates 50 years of service with Pennsylvania National Horse Show Hall of Fame honor.

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Joe Alfano has been the horseshoer at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg for 50 years. The horse show honored him this year...
Tuesday, May 09, 2023

Hoof bruises 101: Forte's Kentucky Derby scratch had a common but loosely-defined cause

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On Saturday, the 2023 Kentucky Derby favorite was scratched from the big race, just hours before the horses headed to the starting gate. Two...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

HoofSearch Publishes Online Donkey Hoof Research Guides Published with Free Access for All

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HoofSearch , the index of equine foot research, has released an updated resource guide to peer-reviewed articles and theses on donkey...
Wednesday, April 01, 2020

How can horse owners restrict weight gain, prevent laminitis during time of inactivity and extended turnout?

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New research from Great Britain shows that a pasture management system known as strip grazing can help prevent weight gain in horses this...
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.
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...
Sunday, September 01, 2019

Research: Anti-inflammatory treatment did not decrease movement asymmetry identified in riding horses in training

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Sometimes, it seems like research raises more questions than it answers, and a new study from Sweden this summer asked some v...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Equine Research Live at the 2019 FEI World Cup: Swedish university students measure velocity of world's top show jumpers

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Jump crews work hard at a horse show. At next week’s FEI World Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden, one unique jump crew will be working hard in ho...
Tuesday, July 03, 2018

HANDS OFF Safety Alert: US Food and Drug Administration reports potential health risks to people exposed to altrenogest products for horses

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The following warning was issued today by the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine in Rockville, Maryland: The U.S. Food and Drug...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Impactful Hoof Research in New Zealand: Computer Model to Gauge Equine Limb Reaction to Change in Surface Condition

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Researchers at New Zealand's Massey University are creating a dynamic computer model of the racehorse limb in motion. Their goal is to...