Hoof Care

Talon's Story: Part VI - Holistic Horsemanship & Hoof Care

After Kim mentioned finding a Holistic Vet, I did some Google searches and found Dr. Amy Hayek. I contacted her and she agreed to...

Heart Hoof Care: Part VI - Laminae & Golden Line

Now that we have all of the pieces to our imaginary hoof it is time to learn how all of our pieces fit together! We will start by...

Heart Hoof Care Part V: Digital Cushion, Sensitive Frog Corium, and Frog Tubules

We’ve learned about the sole region, the wall capsule, and the bars, but we have one more piece of our imaginary hoof to go before we can...

Heart Hoof Care Part IV: Lateral Cartilage & Bar Tubules

We’ve learned about sole tubules and wall tubules in previous blogs, but...there are still more tubules to learn about! The next...

Heart Hoof Care: Part III - Coronary Corium, Wall Tubules, and Periople Skin

If you grasped the concept of how the sole tubules grow from the sole corium in the previous blog you should be able to easily understand...

Heart Hoof Care: Part II - Sole Corium & Sole Tubules

Now that we’ve learned about the bones, joints, and tendons of the lower limb we are going to start covering some specific internal...

Heart Hoof Care: Part I - Bones, Joints, and Tendons

Anatomy can often seem a bit overwhelming and be a pretty dry subject, but it would be impossible to understand the effects of different...

Heart Hoof Care - Introduction

I began studying the hoof and hoof care when my horse, Talon, led me down a path requiring me to do so. I vividly remember what a...