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Nope, and not all horses had been at the farm for long.
My suspicion is that these rings do not always indicate a 
present or past problems.


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---- On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Karen Standefer (karenst@xxxxxxxxxxx) 
wrote:
> Were most of the horses shod by the same farrier?  Those 
rings indicate
> some sort of inflammation in the corium at the time the hoof 
horn was
> produced.  If many horses at the same place had them, then 
you should
> look for the common source of inflammation.  Could be poor 
farrier work,
> some sort of food that upset their system and caused a 
laminitic type
> reaction in the hoof, everyone being wormed or given shots at 
the same
> time and could have caused a laminitic reaction, etc.
>
>  
>
> Karen

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