Hoof care guide

Hoof Moisture Balance

Hooves do not like extremes. Soaked footing, dry spells, heavy wash-rack use, urine spots, and muddy turnout can all change what riders need to check.

Quick answer: Manage hoof moisture with daily picking, clean footing, dry time, frog and heel checks, consistent farrier timing, and professional help for lameness, heat, deep cracks, punctures, strong digital pulse, or drainage.

Farrier or vet red flags

• Lameness, sudden tenderness, hoof heat, or strong digital pulse.
• Puncture wounds, deep cracks, drainage, bleeding, or severe odor with pain.
• Rapid wall separation, heel pain, recurring soreness, or worsening movement.
• Any hoof concern that changes how the horse stands, turns, or travels.

Daily hoof moisture routine

1. Pick the hoof. Clean frog, sulci, sole, white line, and heel areas.
2. Look and compare. Check odor, tenderness, softness, cracks, heat, and digital pulse.
3. Dry what needs drying. Give hooves air time after rinse, rain, mud, or wash-rack work.
4. Manage the environment. Reduce standing in urine, deep mud, and constantly soaked spots.
5. Stay on farrier schedule. Balance, flare, long toes, and weak walls are farrier conversations.

Where Silver Hoof fits

Routine support, not a farrier replacement.

Silver Hoof EQ Therapy® fits the hoof, heel, frog, and lower-leg care lane when the area is clean, dry, and appropriate for routine external support. It does not replace corrective trimming, shoeing, radiographs, or veterinary care.