Layne's Farrier Service

06/05/2023

Little trivia for horse owners.
Where does the horse break over?

04/20/2023

https://teamropingjournal.com/horse-care/worth-every-penny-shoeing-your-rope-horses/

Team ropers are notorious for skimping on farrier services—and rope horses are notorious for lameness. Here’s the 411 from excellent shoers who are also pro headers and heelers.

02/08/2023

02/06/2023

12/15/2022

I know I can’t be the only one that enjoys the smell of burnt hoof!
1” Kerckhaert fine nail sliders.

12/15/2022

An Investigation into the Postural Link Between Negative Plantar Angles and Concurrent Pathology Along the Dorsal-Myofascial Line Using Thermography Y. Sharp Introduction Rationale Studies have linked poor hind hoof balance with postural changes (Sharp and Tabor 2022) and pathology within the hind l...

11/03/2022

10/21/2022

A lot of times people don’t understand what farriers go through.
We are on the road constantly, trucks break, trailers break.
We have a life that we like to live outside of shoeing horses.
Some how we always get the horses shod and our clients happy.
The simplest “Thank you for doing what you do” goes a long way.
Our passion for helping horses keeps us going.
Thank you to all my clients!

09/19/2022

Got this guy ready for his show next weekend.
Burned on 1” Kerckhaert sliding plates.

09/09/2022

Serving the North Alabama and Southern TN area since 2014. Love what I do 💪

04/27/2022

04/24/2022

Farrier Justin Layne (Harvest, Alabama, USA 🇺🇸) who is a AFA Certified farrier responded to our ‘horseshoe’ photo challenge 😃. This is his choice: Kerckhaert SX8 with Liberty Combo Slim 5 nails. 👌 For smaller shoes he likes the Liberty Race 5 nails. His favorite horses 🐴 to shoe are 3 day eventers.

[http://bit.ly/Page-Justin-Layne]

04/23/2022

03/05/2022

Awesome new equipment!

02/27/2022

I will be doing a special promotion for current clients only.
This is for Military and first responders.

I will be offering HALF off your next shoeing bill.
With everything going on in the world right now I wanted everyone that puts their life on the line how much I appreciate you!

10/20/2021

It wouldn't be October 4th if I didn't feel the little chill in the air I felt back in 1989 when I learned that the mighty Secretariat had been euthanized at Claiborne Farm in Kentucky. It was the day many people learned what Laminitis was...and what it could take away from you. Revisit this solemn day in hoof history on The Hoof Blog:
https://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2011/10/secretariats-death-by-laminitis.html

09/10/2021

Veterinarians at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital answer your questions about sales and healthcare of Thoroughbred auction yearlings, weanlings, 2-year-olds and breeding stock. Question: How do crushed heels happen, and how might they impact an athletic horse (racehorse or sport horse)? Dr. Scott Fle...

03/30/2021

Triple crown feed has recognizes a good foot when they see one! Thank you for the shout out Triple crown!

Feeding a quality feed so your horse gets adequate levels of vitamins, minerals and essential amino acids can help hoof health! We often hear how a change to Triple Crown helped improve the overall quality of a horse's hooves. Share your experience!
Hoof by Layne's Farrier Service

12/07/2020

Very true.

Motivational Monday!
“Discussions are always better than arguments, because an argument is to find out WHO is right, and a discussion is to find out WHAT it is right.”

09/22/2020

Rood & Riddle Equine Podiatry

“The fundamental reason that we shoe our horses is to improve their wellbeing and usefulness. Each hoof is in a continuous state of change through deformation, growth and wear, and to counteract these actions, we can upon the skill of farrier to redress the hoof’s balance with the aim of creating a conditional equilibrium. “
- FARRIERY: The whole horse concept (David Gill)

08/29/2020

The Equine Documentalist

Asymmetry is a reality and fact of nature.
But it has its implications. If we are to accept assymetry as natural biodiversity then we have to understand the implications and work to maintain healthy physiology in spite of the predispositions.

High low hooves in front are an assymetry, they are very often acquired but are a natural occurrence and product of laterality. It creates different angles all the way up the limb and creates an asymmetry in the shoulder (Ridgeway 2020) This affects the saddle fit and the seat of the rider creating more influences on the horse. A Rotated scapula In the lower foot and tension in the higher foots shoulder. Ridgeway also discusses the effects on the neck and spine.

Hobbs et al. (2018) also quantified some of the biomechanical results of this conformation. The feet create asymmetrical propulsive forces resulting in spinal stiffening and contra lateral hind limb compensations. Again this could create musculoskeletal injury and Hobbs touched on the fact that these horses may need physio treatment more often for preventative measures.

We can also use technology to quantify these effects. Hobbs used objective gait analysis in the study but something else that could prove to be a valuable tool in detecting areas of inflammation which correlate well with regions of pain in these horses is thermography.

We know that these horses are needing to compensate and will need to overuse some muscles, so thermography is a very useful tool in monitoring and detecting sub clinical and early changes in the body (Soroko and Howell 2018).

The following images show some of these points and includes a case study.
In the case study, the links between the high low conformation and the inflammatory markers in the thermography are anecdotal and could be coincidental, but further research using thermography could quantify how the compensatory mechanisms discussed by the above studies create inflammation and musculoskeletal overuse.

Further reading on high-low hooves at this link.

https://www.theequinedocumentalist.com/post/high-low-hoof-conformation-farriery-and-whole-horse-relevance

07/24/2020

Hope everyone is staying cool. While shoeing Kruze today I decided to snap a little picture. Been shoeing this horse for 5 years. We definitely butted heads in the past but today. He was perfect 👌

05/08/2020

The Equine Documentalist

The Equine Documentalist

With the prevalence of poor hoof conformation caused by weak, run forward heels we must ask why!? Do we need to rethink the way we protect horses hooves? What can we do to reduce the genesis of these pathologically predisposed hooves? Many of the answers lie in the miracle of one of the hoofs functions.
Barefoot is best, but how can we best replicate its function?
Follow the link for further reading

01/01/2020

Rood & Riddle Equine Podiatry

Follow up on Case of the Year 🎆🍾

6 year old Race horse with a history of right hind foot lameness. Sound at the walk, but showed obvious lameness at the trot. No history of abscess or infection.
Blocked sound to abaxial sesamoid block. Radiographs show a clearly demarcated lucency in the parietal surface of the coffin bone. The radiograph indicates a space occupying lesion or mass.
A submural spherical keratoma is the diagnosis. Keratomas can be classified as spherical or cylindrical. Keratomas can originate from any germinal tissue of the hoof capsule such as sole, coronary or lamellar corium. Sole and lamellar corium produce spherical keratomas which are circular or lobular masses. Coronary corium produces the more common cylindrical (carrot shaped) keratoma. Spherical keratomas are not attached to the surrounding tissue and are easily removed. They basically pop right out with little effort.
The cylindrical keratomas are attached to the hoof wall, therefore a strip of wall needs to be removed with it. For that reason cylindrical keratomas require wall stabilization with a metal brace and a longer recovery recovery time.
Follow up pictures and videos will be posted as the case progresses.

12/04/2019

Ruptured disc, tore ligament in hip.
No wonder I can’t walk.
Minimum of 6 more weeks recovery.

12/01/2019

For everyone keeping up.
MRI didn’t come back too good.
I’m heading to the Spine and Neurologist Dr. Wednesday.

11/25/2019

MRI set for this afternoon.

11/23/2019

I want to thank everyone that has called and texted while I’ve been hurt.
I hope to get back at it as soon as I can.

11/16/2019

The Difference(s) Between Performance Horses and Other Horses - David Ramey, DVM

The Difference(s) Between Performance Horses and Other Horses - David Ramey, DVM

Performance horses are horses. They love getting fed, they tolerate getting brushed, and they seem to like human interaction. But I think that it's very important that they get to be horses.