Keeping your horse’s hooves in tip-top condition can be difficult during the summer. No matter how diligent your approach to care, it’s easy to get tripped up by the one factor over which you have no control: the weather. Moisture, in particular, can have mild to dramatic effects on even healthy hooves as it varies from season to season, within a season and geographically. That said, it is possible for you to help your horse take the challenges of summer weather in stride. Here’s how.
Aim for the Ideal
In general, a healthy hoof has these basic qualities:
• a wall that is smooth, uniform and naturally glossy, marked with
