In veterinary use, bandages are used to apply compression to swollen limbs, for support and stabilisation or even immobilisation of injured limbs and for protection of a wound during the healing process. In all cases adequate padding is vital to avoid serious damage to skin and underlying tissue.

Long narrow pieces of fabric that are wrapped around (part of) the horse's leg to keep an injury clean, to protect the limb from injury due to interference or to prevent swelling. They can be used for exercise, travel or in the stable. Non-elastic bandages (e.g. those made from fleece-like material) are typically used without padding for exercise only. Elastic bandages must be used with padding as they could otherwise cause disruptions of the blood supply to the skin. Woven bandages (wool or synthetic) combined with thick pads are typically called stable bandages. They are applied from below the fore knee / hock down to the pastern and help prevent filled legs in stabled horses. Bandages with pads extending down over the coronet an up over the fore knee / hock are used for travelling.

The part of the hoof wall that is turned forwards at the heels, towards the apex of the frog. It has the same structure as the toe, quarter and heel region of the hoof wall. The bars form the abaxial edge of the medial and lateral sulci of the frog, and usually extend about two thirds of the length of the frog before tapering into the sole.

A steel plate or bar that is cut to size and then welded between the ends of the branches of a horseshoe to creat a bar shoe. Three main types of bar shoe are recognised: straight bar, egg bar and heart bar. There are many other deviants of bar shoes but their form is derived from the main three.

A horseshoe in which the heels are joined together by a bar of metal. The shape of the connection between the heels gives the shoe its name e.g. egg bar, heart bar or straight bar. These shoes are often used in corrective or therapeutic farriery.

Barstock is the straight steel rod from which horseshoes are manufactured. The barstock comes in various sizes (sections) and profiles. A flat bar has a plain rectangular cross section and is used to make plain stamped shoes or (hand-) fullered shoes. To manufacture a shoe from barstock, the correct length first has to be calculated and cut off from the bar.

Barstock is the straight steel rod from which horseshoes are manufactured. The barstock comes in various sizes (sections) and profiles; flat or concave being the most common. Fullered barstock has a groove or crease along the entire length of the bar, which is known as the fullering in the finished shoe. Fullered concave is the most common bar for shoe-making in the UK.

Anatomical term meaning belonging or pertaining to the base or lowest layer of a structure.

A conformational fault affecting limb stance as seen from the front to the back; the axis of the limb slopes inwards and the hooves are positioned medially of the line dropped from the point of the shoulder or point of the buttock. Both fore and hindlimbs can be affected

A conformational fault affecting limb stance as seen from the front to the back; the axis of the limb slopes inwards and the hooves are positioned medially of the line dropped from the point of the shoulder or point of the buttock.