Friday, January 27, 2017

Hoofcare Holocaust History: Jan Liwacz, the Blacksmith of Auschwitz, and the Smell of Burning Hooves

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"Work will make you free" promises the sign above the gate at the entrance of Auschwitz in Poland, the site of one of the worst...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Thinking Outside the Flip Flop Box: Florida Farriers Find Flex-Step Free-Heel Hoof Pad Aids Problems in Sport, Racehorse Feet

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Far from the racetrack, a warmblood show horse sports the new high-tech Flex Step free-heel pad. The shoe is cut to the widest part of the...

USDA's new Horse Protection Act rules withdrawn from federal enactment.

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A Tennessee Walking horse wearing stacked pads and bands. This horse was shod for demonstration purposes at a vet-farrier education event....
Friday, January 20, 2017

Swedish research tests hoof sensor capable of predicting wall structural changes

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An electronic sensor taped to a horse's hoof walls at Chalmers University in an earlier stage of research. Chalmers University in ...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Lost to laminitis: UC Davis says good-bye to its famed and beloved breeding jack

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Action Jackson, the 29-year-old breeding jack at the University of California at Davis, suffered from laminitis. He was humanely euthanize...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Hail Mary: USDA proceeds with last-ditch effort to end soring by imposing bans on Walking horse pads, action devices

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It's fourth down at the end of the fourth quarter. The clock is counting down. Do you punt or pass? The game's at stake. It'...