Hey all, I'm new here (for you all to know) and I'm still learning, so bare with me. Little about my back ground: I've ridden since I was 3, Western and English. I started competitively Barrel Racing about 4 years back. I have an 8y/o AQHA Palomino mare named Miss Badger Olena, aka Lena, that...

Hi I have a problem. My friends horse has completely lost his frog. I mean u can see the navicular tissue. The farrier said to soak his feet in Epsom salt twice a day for ten days and pack it with icthamal at night. This is just for pain management. Then he's going to put a special shoe on to...

I was cleaning my horses hooves (like I usually do daily) and I found a 1cm hole in his rear left hoof. It was on the point of his frog and started to bleed slightly when i was cleaning it out. It didnt look like there was any puss in it to be an abscess. It seemed very soft in the hole and he...

So recently I took in my boyfriend's horse because the horse was not living in a sanatery enviornment. Ive notice this horse seems sore on his hindend, I believed it was a sore muscle or hip out. However recently I discovered a cut or a slit in his frog. Its not deep inside, but its long as in I...

it doesnt seem to hurt her or anything, but its like a chunk of her frog is peeling off? what do i do and is she okay? will add a picture soon. i believe it had something to do with a gravel road we HAD to take. but she was kept off to the side && she does not get gravel tender usually. she's...