Managing a Laminitic Pony's Overgrown Hooves - Tina Cassar www.thehorse.com Jun 2009
Over-aggressive trimming and radical changes to the angles of the foot should be avoided to allow the soft tissues of the foot to adapt.
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Managing a Laminitic Pony's Overgrown Hooves - Tina Cassar www.thehorse.com Jun 2009 Over-aggressive trimming and radical changes to the angles of the foot should be avoided to allow the soft tissues of the foot to adapt. Cedar
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In Care and Rehabilitation of the Equine Foot, Dr Robert Bowker describes an experiment in which horses stood on concrete or on a rubber stall mat. When standing on the softer rubber mat, the horse's area of loading was more than double that of standing on concrete, and the pressure on the solar foot when standing on the rubber mat was reduced to less than one third of the pressure when standing on concrete. Conforming bedding such as sawdust or sand should always be used, but soft rubber mats beneath the bedding rather than concrete will reduce the pressure on damaged structures of the feet should the horse dig through the bedding.
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