Thoughts, ideas and partially worked out hypotheses about certain lamenesses of horses

white line disease

horseshoes

hoof cracks

functional anatomy

swayback

suspensory problem

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You may wish to visit my papers in: Online Journal of Veterinary Research. Please click on the link just below: The shape of the bare foot. Also, there are two papers in Anvil Magazine: December 1999 on the formation of the rings of the hoof and October 1999 on clubfoot. Click the links below.

The shape of the bare foot. Click here.

rings of the hoof wall and clubfoot. Click here.

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Rooney, JR The Lame Horse. 2nd Ed. orders@horseinfo.com

Rooney and Robertson Equine Pathology. Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa

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