Corns in horses are painful sole bruises near the heel, often associated with improper shoe fit, thin soles, or excessive pressure. Learn how to recognize the signs, understand dry, moist, and infected corns, and explore diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and prevention. Discover how regular farrier care and early veterinary attention can help protect your horse’s comfort and soundness.

Discover how daily observation, proper hoof care, and owner education support your horse’s comfort and soundness, with practical educational resources from Horse Education Online.

Hoof balance describes how the shape and alignment of the hoof work with the internal structures of the foot and lower limb during standing and movement. This evidence-based guide explains static and dynamic balance, center of pressure, mediolateral and toe-to-heel loading, breakover, trimming, footing, and why a balanced hoof cannot be defined by perfect symmetry or one universal formula.

Equine canker is a chronic, progressive disease affecting the hoof, most commonly the frog. It involves abnormal growth and breakdown of the hoof’s outer tissue layers. Learn what causes it, how to recognize it, and how to treat it.

Hoof dressings are widely used and heavily marketed, but are the claimed benefits backed up by science? Learn what research has to say about hoof dressings.

Learn what white line disease is, what causes it, how to treat it, and how to prevent it.

A deeper dive into thrush: learn the current scientific consensus on this common hoof ailment

Abscesses are a common cause of lameness; learn their causes and symptoms