A barefoot hoof is able to function as nature intended. It is able to absorb concussion, correctly utilise the frog and soft tissues in the hoof, and spread the horse’s weight over the wall, edge of ...

An always-fatal disease that wildlife biologists expect will diminish northwest Wyoming’s elk population for decades has ...

Cold temperatures, icy conditions and a 1,000-pound animal that is not eager to have its feet worked on – just another day at ...

DRUZHKIVKA, Ukraine—On the eastern front here, Russia is saddling up a mainstay of battlefields from earlier centuries to counter Ukraine’s drone army: horses and donkeys. The hoofed mammals ...

A hoof to the head ended Miggles Shanks’ horse-riding career but opened the door to a new passion, golf. When Margot “Miggles” Shanks" was injured on her family’s former farm at Waingake ...

It feels worse with every prodding poke. Another canker sore. What did you do to deserve this? Maybe nothing at all. “Most times, we don’t know why they come,” says Dr. Alessandro Villa ...

A horse has been rescued after falling through a wooden bridge in rural west Dorset. The animal's rear legs became trapped on Saturday afternoon when part of the footbridge over a stream gave way.