What Shape are My Horse’s Feet In?
With consistent, proper care farriers and horse owners can manage most hoof types, and horses can function successfully in their designated capacities.
With consistent, proper care farriers and horse owners can manage most hoof types, and horses can function successfully in their designated capacities.
The term white line disease is actually a misnomer; the white line (the soft, fibrous inner layer of the hoof wall) itself is not affected. Rather, the infection takes hold in the area just in front of the epidermal laminae (the sensitive tissues that attach to the hoof wall and help suspend the coffin bone within the hoof capsule).
Tapping the hoof wall in these cases creates a hollow sound, which is why some call WLD hollow hoof syndrome.