VALLEY FALLS — After trimming the hoof and cleaning out a hoof abscess, Steve Senn carefully drills holes in the chestnut mare's right front hoof. The mare is a victim of chronic founder, a painful ...

Tobias Ellis, head farrier at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, trims a horse's hoof while prepping it for a new shoe at the college in Urbana. Tobias Ellis, head farrier at ...

Hoof grasped firmly between his knees, Chad Hoffart deftly slices dead sole off of the bottom, then grabs the nippers from his nearby toolbox and begins trimming the horse's foot. This is the 25th ...

Joe Mantie Jr., a farrier who shod horses for the Governor’s Horse Guard for more than 35 years, died Sunday of cancer. He was 75. Mantie, who rarely went by his given name of Herman, is survived by ...

Founder or laminitis is a common disease of the horse's foot that can cause chronic lameness or even death. The laminia is a connective tissue that attaches the hoof to the coffin bone (see diagram 1) ...