Educate yourself on laminitis, a debilitating and often fatal disease causing pain and inflammation in horse hooves that can be easily prevented.. Fort Collins, Colorado, November 1994. The ...

Laminitis in horses is a life-threatening condition that should be a year-round ... If the pedal bone completely detaches from the hoof wall then the horse has ‘foundered’ and euthanasia may ...

Foundered hooves often require extra support to help them heal and grow while also offering the horse pain relief. But, rarely is the hoof undamaged and easy to shoe after a laminitic episode ...

Laminitis is a painful inflamation of the tissue that bonds the horse's bone to the inner wall of the hoof. It felled Secretariat in 1989.

When laminitis develops to the point that the hoof wall is restricting blood supply to the laminae and causing further inflammation, a hoof wall resection might be needed. Amy Rucker, DVM, of ...

When the horse bears weight on a laminitic hoof, the pedal bone can rotate downwards. This is an extremely painful process ...

Horse First Hoof First. Sizes: 750g ... Most supplements formulated for horses prone to laminitis are low in sugar and include a range of herbs known for their support and development of healthy ...