See: Contracted hoof.... ↪ Read more

Limb opposite the one that suffered the original lameness. Sometimes becomes lame from compensatory stress.... ↪ Read more

A characteristic present from birth.... ↪ Read more

Physical inherited construction of a horse.... ↪ Read more

Flowing together, becoming one.... ↪ Read more

Compensation is adjustments a horse makes to try to keep an even gait despite a sore or lame leg.... ↪ Read more

aka: Main Extensor Tendon or CDET, is found in the front leg. It passes down over the front and slightly to the outside of the leg and attaches to the long pastern, short pastern and coffin bone. The widest point of attachment is at/on the extensor process of the coffin bone. It is joined on each... ↪ Read more

A line or place where two things are joined. For example, the the junction of the white line and the inner sensitive structure if the hoof capsule. Another example would be where the frog meets and joins the bar structure.... ↪ Read more

An entire male horse under 4 years old.... ↪ Read more

See: Lateral cartilages.... ↪ Read more

Shoeing done with ready-made shoes where the shoes are shaped to fit the foot cold on the anvil without benefit of the forge.... ↪ Read more

Is located in the hoof. It contains nerves and blood vessels which form the foot's sensitive structures and cushion the area between the bone and hoof.... ↪ Read more