Showing posts with label Winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter. Show all posts
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Chain Reaction Traction: Anti-slip Horseshoe Chains Took the Farrier Out of the Equation 100 Years Ago

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This is the latest chapter in the Hoof Blog's series on the history of hooves vs. snow and ice. To read other articles in this s...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Traction History: Non-Skid Over-Shoes Were the Humane Society's Gift to the Horses of New York City

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"Here come the hoof boot angels." That's what the people of New York might have said back in 1919, and for many years af...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Introduction to Winter Traction: Finding the Roots of Today's Safety and Fun Under Foot in Snow and Ice

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Like a scene from Black Beauty , a horse goes down in the shafts of a delivery wagon on a Boston street, sometime between 1917 and 1934. ...
Monday, February 24, 2014

White Turf: How Do Polo Ponies and Racehorses Stay on Their Feet in the St. Moritz Snow?

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A ski-joring horse displays the outside of his right front hoof during a race. Coronet and hoof wall injuries are common when horses are ...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Winter Worry: Icelandic Horses Fell Through the Ice

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Today's video is from the "greatest hits" vault here at Hoofcare & Lameness . Back in 2009, a near-tragic event in Icela...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Historic Hoofcare: The Ice Harvest

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What you are seeing in this video is a pond in the Pocono Mountains region of Pennsylvania. This particular project is to cut ice for one...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Winter Is Here! So Are Studded Hoof Boots

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6 January 2010 | Fran Jurga's Hoof Blog at Hoofcare.com This art is from an ad for ice calks that was in the Horseshoers Journal 100 y...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Clipper Folly: A Sad Chapter in Horse Care History from World War I

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11 November 2009 | Fran Jurga's Hoof Blog In the Middle East during World War I, horses arriving from Australia would have had wi...
Friday, March 27, 2009

Grass Laminitis: Something Else to Blame on Global Warming?

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by Fran Jurga | 26 March 2009 | Fran Jurga's Hoof Blog This pony is demonstrating the typical stance of a horse that is in pain from...
Sunday, December 14, 2008

Ice Capades: New Englanders Are Still in the Dark Tonight

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APTOPIX Ice Storm "IDYLLIC" , originally uploaded by nike6 . Throughout New England, more than 600,000 households are still...
Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Favorite Video: Horse Owners Beware of Seasonal Weight Gain Over Winter Months

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by Fran Jurga | 2 December 2008 | www.hoofcare.blogspot.com Most horses and ponies are not as overtly obese as this pony. The videos p...
Sunday, April 06, 2008

Palm Beach Footing Post Script

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Palm Beach International Equestrian Center's International Arena during a recent night class After posting on Friday about the footing ...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Why Don't Penguins' (and Horses') Feet Freeze?

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A popular gift book for Christmas is always “Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?” It’s been at the top of the nonfiction bestseller list in G...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

A Grey Horse Makes Winter More Beautiful...

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Mike Wildenstein sent this photo of what it looks like on his farm in upstate New York this week. That's Mike skidding a log with one of...