Introduction In cattle, lesions in the sole usually attributed to laminitis include haemorrhages in the horn, double soles, ulcers in the sole and toe, haemorrhage and separation of the white line, as well as deformation of the whole surface (“dropped sole”) (Ossent and others, 1997). Other authors used the term claw horn disruption (CHD) (Clarkson and others, 1996; Hoblet and Weiss, 2001). Usu...

Seventy-two lactic acid producing bacterial isolates (excluding streptococci) were cultured from the gastrointestinal tract of six horses. Two of the horses were orally dosed with raftilose to induce lactic acidosis and laminitis while the remaining four were maintained on a roughage diet. Near complete 16S rDNA was amplified by PCR from the genomic DNA of each isolate. Following RFLP analysis ...

This article describes three cases in which severe foot pathology was managed with surgery and the application of a wooden shoe. Although all horses would have fulfilled grounds for humane euthanasia, they were successfully had favourable outcome. supports current farriery concepts shows how shoe can effectively redistribute horse's weight on solar surface foot, alleviate pain, enhance biomecha...