The same message echoed from a thousand telephone answering machines across the country in February, and if you happened to have a horse throw a shoe that week, you were in trouble. "Hi, I’ll be away until March first attending the American Farrier’s Association Convention in Rochester, New York…"

 


HOOFCARE & LAMENESS/DAVE FARLEY

New ideas in quarter crack repair not only include many ingenious patching methods, but also have expanded to include removing an outer layer of horn near the hair line, thus encouraging new growth of a wide band of horn. Even when patched, quarter cracks can’t heal; they can only disappear as healthy new horn grows down from the hairline

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