Diseases

Learning More About Laminitis

There were plenty of footcare techniques to be learned from a dozen speakers at the Bluegrass Laminitis Symposium
For farriers and equine veterinarians seeking both practical and scientific shoeing ideas, the 15th Bluegrass Laminitis Symposium provided a good mixture of valuable techniques.
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Farriers' Roundtable

White line disease is an invasion of opportunistic bacteria, fungi and probably yeast that has the ability to consume the inner horn of the hoof.
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Research Journal

Few epidemiologic studies have been done to identify risk factors for laminitis. This prospective case-control study was designed to identify factors that predispose horses to acute or chronic laminitis.
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Laminitis Still A Puzzle?

Fredericks’ unification theory draws plenty of reader interest, criticism
Not everyone may agree with the unification theory on laminitis developed by California farrier Matthew Frederick and his wife, Susan Tierney Frederick, but a lot of people ARE talking about it.
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Research Journal

Superficial digital flexor (SDF) tendinitis is common in performance horses and is associated with prolonged loss of training time as well as early retirement from competition.
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Vet's Corner

Getting Antibiotics To Where They're Most Needed

If you don't knock out the infection inside the hoof, all of your careful work on the hoof capsule and outer tissues can be wasted
Treating infections inside the equine hoof always represents a major problem. Horses are mostly affected by large amounts of bacterial contamination, necrotic tissues, fluid coming from the laminae or from the joints inside the hoof capsule.
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Horse

White Line Disease Declines As Farrier Knowledge Increases

In 1997, American Farriers Journal editors produced an in-depth look at how farriers were dealing with white line disease. Here’s what’s happened since then.
White Line Disease continues to be a serious concern for horse owners, but farriers are doing a better job of identifying and treating the problem.
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Briefings

After an Oklahoma farrier rolled his shoeing rig, he was shocked to learn the vehicle’s $3,000 per year insurance policy covered only the truck. Unfortunately, it did not cover the damaged shoeing body or lost and broken tools.
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