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Your Horse’s Hooves are In Your Hands As President of Cavallo, one of the most interesting parts of my job is the personal stories you all share with me about your experience with caring for your horse’s hooves. The process of transitioning from shod to barefoot or making a change from one farrier to another…
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Wonderful Winter Riding When we feel like Winter is coming, we winterize our houses, winterize our vehicles and we buy boots and jackets to Winterize ourselves. What about Winterizing our horses? Winter is the perfect time to pull off metal shoes and keep your horse moving through the colder season. Allow your horse’s hooves to…
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Hearing Great Things from Thin-Soled Horse Owners One question we’re often asked at Cavallo is if hoof boots can help thin-soled horses. Cavallo Hoof Boots work wonders to help protect soles and add padding to help horses feel better immediately – making a quick fix for thin soles! The boots also provide welcome support as…
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Here’s some April action for you – enjoy your Cavallo News! Enter to Win Unbelievable Comfort! Our Hoof Boot Pad Party Pack Instagram contest was SO popular last month, we’ve decided to offer it again on our Facebook page! To enter our contest, leave us a comment on our Facebook post, telling us which Cavallo…
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Less Restraint… More Love! ❤️ Holistic Hooves Offers Cavallo Community 40% Off! Trimming a donkey could be a little bit like baking a cake…you need to get the recipe right and it all comes together! All-Star donkey trimmer, Megan Hensley of Holistic Hooves knows that the recipe involves less restraint and more LOVE. Why medicate…
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SPECIAL EDITION NEWSLETTER – Your Reviews of 2021! You inspire us. You’re always trying to do better for your horse. When you know better, you do better and, because of this, you never rest in your quest for knowledge. We received so many testimonials over 2021 that we couldn’t even post them all to Facebook!…
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Uxía and Cissa’s Brave Journey Uxía is an equine educator and horsewoman in Barcelona, and she’s forging new barefoot pathways in Spain. Her social media accounts are some of the most influential in Spain. They are among few references in their area about natural horsemanship, groundwork and bitless and barefoot horsekeeping. She’s our kinda girl!…
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Underrun heels are a degenerative condition when the heel wall angle is less than that of the toe wall. The heel distorts inward and under the hoof rather than slanting outward towards the back. Contrast this to a healthy hoof. In a healthy hoof, the heel is on an angle away from the toe. This…
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Big news! We’ve got a fun, new perk for high-achieving United States Pony Club (USPC) certification members! You may already know that we enjoy an Affiliate Partnership between Cavallo and the USPC. We just launched a new program that will award all members who achieve their H-HM/H/H-A Level Horse Management Certification with a pair of…
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