Equine nutritionist Kathleen Crandell, PhD, discusses the Western World's embrace of Eastern, or traditional, medicine and how it can relate to equine ailments.

The equine hoof wall has a complex tubular structure, which extends across the stratum medium. In a healthy hoof, the tubules are straight, parallel to each other and descend at the same angle as the hoof capsule. On the bearing border surface of a trimmed hoof, they can be seen as a pattern of rings. Our human skin is an epidermal structure like the hoof, and yet skin does not have horn tubules within it. This article sets out to answer the simple question of why horn tubules exist within the hoof wall.

Dr. Stephen Duren explains the timeline of hoof quality improvement after a diet change.

Catherine Whitehouse discusses what inferences can be drawn from hoof rings and ridges relating to the horse's nutrition.

Just as coat condition serves as an indication of health status in horses — sheen and dapples suggest vitality, whereas dull, rough, or half-shed coats imply unthriftiness or disease — changes in hooves may provide clues to a horse’s historical well-being.

Melyni Worth discusses whether fever and stress rings on the equine hoof can be attributed to poor nutrition.

What consideration do you give to trimming the frog? “I think we overlook it,” Danville, Ill., farrier Steve Sermersheim told attendees at the D.L. Schwartz Farrier Supply clinic in October. “I used to overlook it. I would just trim the frog and go on.”