The coffin (or “pedal”) bone is the bottom bone located near the toe and encapsulated in the hoof. It is the largest bone in the hoof and helps to shape the hoof wall. It’s surrounded by special tissues that help make-up the laminae of the hoof wall, as well as, the tissues ...
and regionally distinct livestock types arose and were propagated. Isolation of these types was generally by distance or selective matings based on adaptation to local environmental conditions or obvious phenotypic traits such as color orhornshape rather than on pedigree information. However, pedigree in...
You can then draw in two slightly curved lines for the next section of the leg, and then close it off with a hoof shape. Next, draw in the back leg with a longer curved line at the top as you can see in the image. Draw in the rest of the leg as you did before, and then ma...
The principal index is the stage of wear of the infundibulum, which disappears at the age of 6 years from the lower central incisor and from the upper lateral by 12 years. Older horses can be aged using the shape of the worn incisors and the appearance of a groove on the labial ...
To the left of the picture is the top of the hoof wall (just below the hairline) The top of P3 (the small semi-circular shape just to the right of the middle of the photo) is level with the top of the wall which is good as it means that the coffin bone has not sunk (there ...
Even if the part of the horse is a miniature breed, the height should be 8.5 and below. Most farmers use the height feature because every small horse breeding aims to create a horse with a smaller size. Remember, the height preference majorly applies to the mature horses alone. ...
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The donkey and mule foot is similar to the horse, except that the frog is set farther back behind the hoof wall, and the entire hoof is longer and narrower, sometimes even pinched inwards along the quarters. It is this shape because the donkey is a dry-rocky-terrain animal and this shap...
Horse hooves can grow out of control if you allow them to, and getting a professional to trim their hooves to the ideal shape and length for your horse’s comfort is crucial to their hoof health. Although a farrier will trim your horse’s hooves when they come to shoe your horse, it’...
A plastic hoof cover for a horse has the plastic applied as a loose form or as a powder and hardened onto the hoof. The plastic cover provides a layer up to 4 cm thick. The cover can be further secured by hoof nails and can be filed an worked into the required shape....