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Site title: The Humble Hoof – A Whole Horse Approach to Hoofcare
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It’s winter time here in Massachusetts, and the snow and ice have already hit full force! With it comes considerations of our horses’ comfort, soundness, and safety during these coming months.
I chatted with Beth Lynn Lewis of New Hampshire and Maggie Lambert of Colorado about what precautions and hoofcare considerations they make during the winter ...
If you live in an area that gets cold weather, you may have already had a taste of it this year. It’s been freezing here – much colder and snowier and icier (!) than our normal Decembers.. so much for easing into the season!I spent the last week in Denver, Colorado, for the AAEP Convention, and coming back home to this weather reminded me I needed to revisit this episod...
Before I was a hoofcare provider, I was a horse owner, and before that I leased horses, and before that, I mucked stalls to work off lessons. And in all that time, until my horse came up lame, which led to my journey into hoofcare, I knew very little about hooves. I didn’t know what they “should” look like, what a healthy frog was, what hoof sensitivity could point to, ...
Many of you who follow this page know that I got into hoofcare because of my navicular-diagnosed gelding, Vinnie. Because of Vinnie’s lameness issues and subsequent journey to healthier hooves, I met people all over the world who were going through similar things with their navicular horses. One of those people was Hannah Fox, a trainer and rider who lived in my general...
One of my main focuses in my hoofcare business is barefoot transition and hoof rehabilitation. That might sound like a lot of fancy words, but really all that means is that I am working to grow healthier hooves through educating about horse management, and utilizing trims to “nudge” the hoof in the direction I want it to go. So when I had the chance to chat with Dave Ma...
