Nutrition

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Balanced Diet Leads to Healthy Hooves

Much like the canary in the coal mine that identifies a dangerous situation, nutrient deficiencies often show up in the hoof wall and sole growth before they’re readily observed in the rest of the horse
Their show hunter, the owners tell you, pulls its head to one side, fights with the rider and has straightness issues. As you examine the horse, you find excessive wear on the left toe.
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Online Hoof-Care Classrooms

Hoof Nutrition: Food for Thought

This webinar discusses important factors about nutrition that can dramatically improve or deter hoof health and growth, highlighting useful information to help you in the field. The purpose of the information is not to make you a nutritional expert, but to give you the ability to know when nutritional issues could be present and you can direct your client to seek assistance.
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Frank Lessiter
From The Desk Of AFJ

Hooves, Fingernails, Hair Loss And More

Knowing that biotin is used to improve hoof quality and hoof growth, it got me thinking about the benefits of biotin for humans. Doing some research, I learned the benefits of humans taking biotin is based on earlier work with horses.
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The Importance of Nutrition to the Equine Foot

The equine foot is a miracle of engineering and a design that is unique in the animal kingdom. Other ungulates (animals that walk on their toes) have shock absorbing mechanisms ranging from a cloven hoof to the very soft and cushiony foot of an elephant, camel, rhino, etc.
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2013 International Hoof-Care Summit

[Video] Lecture Preview: Brian Hampson

IHCS Speaker Brian Hampson of the Australia Brumby Research Unit gives us a sneak peek into what he'll be presenting over the course of three presentations at the 2013 International Hoof-Care Summit that will cover the hoof health of the Brumby, Australia's feral horse.
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Passing The Club Foot Exam

Not all club feet are the same, so understanding grading systems can help you better determine how best to help a particular foal with this all-too-common problem
I was curious to see if club feet in horses was a topic of interest to the horse-owning public. I Googled it and came up with over 42,000 hits.
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2012 AAPF Hoofcare Essentials Clinic

[Video] 12 Points Of Reference In Trimming

American Farriers Journal Editor/Publisher Frank Lessiter met up with AAPF V.P. Dave Farley (Coshocton, Ohio) at the 2012 AAPF Hoofcare Essentials Clinic to discuss Balancing the Equine Hoof, a 12-step sequence he and Roy Bloom came up with to evaluate each horse, no matter their conformation.
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