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Glue-On Shoes Best For Realinging Horses With Chronic Laminitis

This proven method avoids the trauma of pounding nails and allows for precision shoe placement — if you follow a few principles

CHRONIC LAMINITIS challenges veterinarians and farriers to improve function in a foot with substantial, possibly permanent structural changes. Chief among these is displacement of the third phalanx (P3), which is responsible for the hallmarks of chronic laminitis: chronic lameness, recurrent foot abscesses and abnormal hoof wall growth.


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Scott Morrison

Step-By-Step Approach To Dealing With The Laminitic Foot

Equine veterinarian Scott Morrison says systematic approach offers best hope for the horse

If there's one issue that baffles farriers and veterinarians, it’s how to deal with laminitis. Farriers find it hard to distinguish between the tested methods of treatment for laminitis and the people who are out there trying to sell a quick-fix solution to this debilitating problem.


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You've Got 7 Minutes To Fix That Foot!

Besides taking care of last-minute problems, paddock farrier Terry Carrier represents the bettor in looking for shoeing situations that can give a horse an unfair edge
Standing around and doing little other than looking at the shoes on the horses entered in 8 to 12 races may seem like an easy way to spend an afternoon.
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Shoeing For A Living

If It's Monday, This Must Be Indiana

Hoosier-state farrier also shoes horses in Ohio and Michigan
It's a gorgeous autumn morning in October as Tim Tritch and I climb aboard his shoeing rig in Angola, Ind., in the extreme northeastern corner of the Hoosier state.
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Special Glue-On Shoe

Designed For Treating Heel Problems

Simplicity of use, effectiveness touted as treatment's selling point
Heel problems in horses can manifest with a variety of characteristics, including underrun heels, heel bruising and heel cracks. These problems often contribute to chronic or refractory lameness.
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Nuggets Of Shoeing Knowledge

Farriers gather in California Gold Country and strike a mother lode of quarter crack information
They might have been in “Gold Country,” but members of the Western State Farrier’s Association were more interested in mining nuggets of horseshoeing knowledge during the annual Northern California Classic in Placerville, Calif.
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What’s Coming In Shoes?

There’s nothing earth-shattering, but new technology offering more shoeing options is on the way
First of all, the shoe shown here equipped with a number of accessories isn’t going to revolutionize shoeing. But its introduction demonstrates that there’s plenty of creative thinking that could impact the way you shoe in the future.
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