Ransom Performs at a Texas Parelli Event in 2009

In an article I published called Natural Hoof Care For A Healthy Hoof – Six Ways To Read Horses’ Hooves I listed some general guidelines you can use to identify healthy hooves in domesticated horses.

It is important to understand that there are no hard and fast rules and that most any rule has an exception …especially when it comes to an animal such as the horse who has survived for millions of years.

One of the most important lessons to take away from this series on identifying a healthy hoof is that there is more than one wild horse model. Hoof Form is all about adaptation and it can vary significantly from biome to biome. [Read more…]