Hoof care
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Created by:
eeibs on November 9, 2009
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Cass / Crow Wing / Sibley County Horse Bowl
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Anvil | A heavy steel block with a smooth flat surface used for shaping horse shoes |
| Farrier | Name given to a person who shoes horses and trims horses hooves |
| Thrush | Disease of the frog of the horse's hoof |
| Clinches | The hammered down ends of the horse shoe nail, securing the shoe to the hoof |
| Tongs | Tool used by a farrier to hold the horse shoe while shaping |
| Rounding Hammer | Tool used by a farrier to make and shape horse shoes |
| Hot shoeing | Method of horse shoeing where the shoe is unfinished and is heated in a forge and shaped to fit the hoof |
| Cold shoeing | Method of horse shoeing where the shoes are presized to fit the hoof |
| Keg shoes | The most commonly used manufactured or presixed horse shoes, often fitted cold |
| Rasp | A bar-like filing tool that is used to level the hoof after trimming |
| Hoof knife | Tool used by a farrier to trim excess frog and sole for the hoof |
| Nippers | Tool used by a farrier to cut off excess growth from the hoof |
| Seedy toe | A condition where the inner and outer hoof wall separates at the toe |
| Bar shoe | Type of horse shoe used to provide frog pressure or relieve pressure on a particular part of the hoof |
| Toe | What part of the horse's hoof grows the fastest |
| Barefoot | Term describing a horse with out shoes |
| Hardy | Tool used by a farrier to cut hot metal, heels of the horse shoe, or cutting blank bars to the proper length |
| Fullering | The tapered groove found behind the last nail on a horse shoe |
| Chadwick spring | Type of horse shoe used to treat contracted heels |
| Sliding plates | Wide flat horse shoes used on the hind feet of reining horses |
| Quittor | A wound on the heel or rear quarter of the hoof that discharges pus above the coronet |
| Reset | Term for when shoes are removed, the hooves trimmed and the old shoes reapplied |
| Sand cracks | Cracks in the wall of the hoof from the coronary band to part or all the way down the wall of the hoof |
| Diamond toe shoe | Type of horse shoe where the sides of the toe are beveled to offset forging |
| Eggbar shoe | Type of horse shoe that is connected at the heels making it a complete circle, used on horses with navicular disease |
| Heart bar shoe | Type of horse shoe used to treat horses who have foundered, easing the strain on the coffin bone |
| Racing plates | Type of horse shoe most often used by race horses |
| Toe clip | Part of a horse shoe used to hold it in place |
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