Unfortunately, things can and do go wrong with your horse that can cause hoof cracks to form. Maybe he pulled a shoe in the pasture or grabbed his heel during a competition. Perhaps conditions ...

Hoof cracks in the wall of the horse’s foot can range from being little more than a cosmetic blemish to a serious cause of lameness and pain. They can run vertically or horizontally, when they ...

However, as Rood & Riddle's Equine Podiatry unit explained in its latest "Case of the Month," any change to the equine limb ...

Hoof Crack Repair "Hoof cracks are a common problem and can affect any part of the foot, causing variable lameness," began Kent Carter, DVM, MS, a professor of equine lameness at Texas A&M University.

There are some common problems that can arise causing lameness in your horse including hoof imbalances, underrun heels, quarter cracks, bruises, abscesses, hot nails and thrush. Hoof imbalances ...

Using a repair method devised 40 years ago by his father, a relatively simple set of tools and his own revolutionary Yasha shoe, the 51-year-old routinely treats horses afflicted by hoof cracks ...

The American Association of Equine Practitioners defines a quarter crack as “a vertical crack in the hoof wall between the toe and the heel of the hoof.” Big Brown’s crack, approximately ...

Hoof cracks in the wall of the horse’s foot can range from being little more than a cosmetic blemish to a serious cause of lameness and pain. They can run vertically or horizontally, when they ...