Equine Foot Research In America

Back in the 1800s, the world really could have used a better hoof on a better horse. History tells us that breeders tried to comply, by including soundness as a criterion for reproduction. Veterinary medicine complied with

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Back in the 1800s, the world really could have used a better hoof on a better horse. History tells us that breeders tried to comply, by including soundness as a criterion for reproduction. Veterinary medicine complied with treatments and prevention regimens for communicable equine diseases. Technology complied with standardized machine-made horseshoes and nails. Society complied with a new awareness of and concern for the plight of overworked, abused horses. But the horse itself, even in its great heyday and height of population in Western civilization, still stood on hooves poorly designed to accomplish the tasks demanded of them.






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Robert Bowker, VMD, makes a point to veterinarian student Kimberly VanWulten.


Even then, in a few scientific forges, research into the hoof and its structures was conducted. Researchers were determined to improve the way that hooves were shod, trimmed, and cared for, in the belief that they could improve the durability of hooves

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Fran Jurga is the publisher of Hoofcare & Lameness, The Journal of Equine Foot Science, based in Gloucester, Mass., and Hoofcare Online, an electronic newsletter accessible at www.hoofcare.com. Her work also includes promoting lameness-related research and information for practical use by farriers, veterinarians, and horse owners. Jurga authored Understanding The Equine Foot, published by Eclipse Press and available at www.exclusivelyequine.com or by calling 800/582-5604.

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