Maintaining healthy hooves is a critical aspect of equine care. Hooves serve as the foundation of a horse’s overall well-being, and proper care can prevent discomfort, ensure optimal performance, and promote long-term health. One product that has proven to be an excellent addition to hoof care routines is Hypozin, a high-quality grooming aid designed to support hoof hygiene and health.
In some areas of the country temperatures are warming a little and ground can thaw during the day. Spring will come sooner or later to most of us and that means more moisture in the soil, more mud and wetness that can provide perfect breeding ground for bacterias and fungus and therefore inevitably also in the grooves and sulcrus of the hooves of our horses. And together with the bacterias comes the thrush!
Christoph Schork
Bootmeister
This frog of a left front hoof had moved to the lateral side, the right side from the bottom seen here. The question is, why did it do that? In many cases where a side movement of the frog can be observed, it moves to the higher side of the hoof, in this case the higher side is lateral, where the green arrow points. Comparing heel height by means of the red horizontal line, we can see that the lateral heel has moved forward and needs to get trimmed shorter.
Christoph Schork
Bootmeister
When the hooves of our donkeys are cleaned, we immediately check if the hooves are healthy. There is the risk of thrush, an inflammation of the horn of the rays of the horn on the lower back of the hoof. Our donkey specialist Andrea Sciacca (https://de-vliegende-ezel.webnode.it) shows how to treat hooves. From cleaning to treatment with Lipozine.
Kira recently joined in again, on two hooves the rays were softer than they should be. Not for the first time, the combination of flax and Kira is a good recipe for thrush.
Laura
Stalgenootje.nl
This older mare’s hooves have likely been skew all her life. They were worse when I started trimming her, and they are changing, slowly-slowly.
This video explains how a farrier files a horse’s hooves. My horse Obelix also suffered a little bit of thrush. Fortunately, this was not a serious case and can easily be treated.
SophieBella