The Essential Hoof Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Horse Foot Care

Paul: This book is well documented and copiously supplied with pictures and diagrams. The explanations presented can help the novice and the expert to successfully treat horses with hoof problems. Easy to follow and understand. This is the "go to" book when treating laminitis, founder and other foot related problems. The authors are very knowledgeable and have shared their experience. The purchase of this book is a good investment you will use for years.

United States on Sep 18, 2023

Francie OP: Good information given. My daughter bought a thoroughbred and then found out he has problem hooves, as many thoroughbreds do. My Arabian horse had great hooves so I was at a loss as to how to help her with her horse. This book gives
good information, explanations, advice, clear pictures.

United States on Jul 06, 2023

truth seeker: Like most reviewers I can't say enough good things about this book. Clear, concise, great sense of humor, amazing pictures, firmly science based, etc etc I can go on and on. If you own a horse please do yourself a favor and read this book front to back. Your horse will thank you!!!

United States on Jun 28, 2023

Dacia Ketterer: Owners, professionals, whoever really can benefit from this book. I love that is explains things clearly and has pictures to help back everything up. Good starter book to make understanding the more complex hoof books better especially for owners that want to do maintenance trims without screwing up their horses’ feet

United States on Jun 04, 2023

Orange Monkey: Highly researched, scientific, fact-based, well-organized, well-written with understanding-enhancing illustrations.

I own several hundreds of books on horses, this is one of the very best books on 'horses' due to it being not just an anecdotal, 'this is how I do it', but a very objective, highly insightful and erudite book.

No hoof, no horse. You can 'use' a horse perhaps for a couple of years with incorrectly trimmed hoofs, but it will catch up. The opposite is also true, with correctly trimmed/cared for hoofs, you'll have resilient hoofs, that improve in soundness with use. (Biological adapation.)

If it wouldn't be viewed as offensive, and people would actually read it, I have many times been wishing I could buy a couple of copies to horse-people that would greatly benefit from the content of this book. (Horses.) Oh my how much suffering that could be prevented!!!

You simply cannot spend any money on your horse in any better way than this book.
No hoof, no horse. Tons of misconceptions and myths out there about hoofs.
Get the most important aspect of your horse right and the two of you will fly soundly for decades.

United States on May 10, 2023

HORZECRZY: This is the farrier Bible for any equestrian interested in farrier work.

Canada on Mar 27, 2023

Christie Kennedy: This book is so informative and super descriptive of all things hoof related. There are so many things to learn in this book. I personally will have to read it a few times to really digest all the information, but it was a super book.

Canada on Jan 10, 2023

MastoyMastoy: Le livre est arrivé abimé parce que l'intérieur retenu par un système d'anneaux est trop lourd et s'était arraché de la couverture, il y a clairement un souci de conception, c'est dommage et c'est pourquoi je retire une étoile ! J'ai hésité à le renvoyer mais je pense que le remplaçant serait arrivé dans le même état avec le transport donc je l'ai gardé et j'ai bricolé un pic à brochettes en métal pour réparer et rendre à nouveau solidaires anneaux et couverture. Voir photo.

Sinon le contenu (qui reste le plus important) est top ! C'est de loin le livre le plus complet que j'aie trouvé sur le sujet jusqu'ici (voir sommaire en photo). A conditions de comprendre l'anglais (quel dommage de ne pas le trouver en français !!!), c'est un livre qui explique tout en détail et est accessible aux novices. Je le recommande vivement !

France on Oct 22, 2022

Julia: Ich bearbeite mein Pferd seit kurzem selber und habe schon einige Bücher dazu gelesen. Dieses gehört zu meinen absoluten Favoriten. Es zeigt auf, dass zu einem gesunden Huf mehr gehört als eine bestimmte Bearbeitungstechnik. Das Buch ist gut verständlich und prima bebildert. Die enthaltenen Tipps und Hinweise zur hufgesundheit finde ich nachvollziehbar und halte sie auch für erfolgversprechend, das ging mir bei vielen anderen hufbüchern leider nicht so. Also klare Kaufempfehlung für dieses Buch 👍.

Germany on Apr 24, 2022

Ms. Sophie Forsyth: Excellent in depth and concise book on the equine foot, clear pictures and illustrations to show what you're looking for and structures with details and images on diseases and issues, highly recommend. If you're looking for an accompanying complimentary lameness book I definitely recommend ; equine lameness for the layman by George Robert Grisel which has superb description and videos for all manner of lameness and hoof issues that made much more sense after reading this hoof book.
Seller superb after receiving a damaged item in transit, would deal with again, thanks!

United Kingdom on Mar 20, 2021