The white line can be found on the bottom of the horse’s hoof close to the edge as a lighter area of horn where the hoof wall and sole meet. Like any join or seam, it is a potential weak spot.

Learn more They can’t tell us when they feel under the weather so it’s our job to make sure we’re constantly monitoring our horses to spot any ... wall and white line of the hoof crumbling ...

By the time the coffin bone has rotated and poked through the pad of the horse’s hoof, it is too late to save the horse’s life. “When the bone starts coming through the bottom of the foot ...

Many times they blow out the bottom of the hoof at the white ... are some horses that have such pressure that the infection tracks upwards as gas rises, and then it finds a soft spot along the ...

"What we recommend is that you drag your horses out of the paddock once a day, clean the bottom of their ... "Take a little spot like this here, we can see the white line but we can see a little ...