Groom gives advice
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07.02.2023
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- Taking good care of horses legs and hooves can prevent any serious injuries. We need to think about this because hooves carry all of the horse’s weight. Start your day with a hooves inspection. Catching any hoof problems in the early stages can save you a lot of money and worries.
- Digital pulse? What is this?
When there is an inflammation going in the hoof, swelling has nowhere to go and it’s staying inside a rigid wall. All this pressure causes pain, lameness and a strong digital pulse.
When there is swelling inside the hoof blood vessels get smaller and the big one needs to pump harder that’s why we feel it as a pulse.
- Birthplace of your horse’s hoof
With other words also called coronary band. One of the inner layers of this area is the coronary corium. New hoof cells form in the corium and push outwards. The hoof wall is made of keratin and forms here. There are also long tubes of corium called papillae that move nutrients throughout the hoof wall.
New hoof cells spend some time hardening under the periople. You can vaguely see this covering as it sits just below the coronary band. It serves to protect the newly minted hoof wall.
- Quarter crack – where they happen, why and what to do?
- At the top of the hoof wall and travel down
- Some require veterinary intervention
- Some cracks bleed
- They can be caused by bad luck, conformation or injury
- The best is to find them on coronary band before they travel down
- They damage the full thickness and flexibility of the hoof with every step your horse makes.
- If you see it early there is a chance that it will heal over a few months.
- Other coronary band injuries…
- Always look for tiny ticks and nicks and the start of equine dermatitis, any possible cuts or skin infections.
- Abscesses, known also as gravel, can pop up on the coronary band, you will see a wound and soon drainage. As the hoof grows from this gravel it may end up with a horizontal crack on the hoof wall.
- Checking hoof temperature
- Always check horses hoof temperature because it can help you `diagnose` early inflammation on the inside.