Welcome to EquineHooves.com

home of the Good Protocol, where Basic Physics is applied to Equine Hooves.

My objective with this site is to build the world’s most comprehensive and easy-to-understand educational platform about the Equine hoof, where everything is proven effective in real life. I will describe the truth that becomes obvious when you apply physics to hooves, and yes, the same physics apply to everything from birds and snakes to bridges and tennis.

The Good Protocol is not a hoof care model or a trimming technique; it describes the physical foundation that affects all hooves in every aspect. When you let physics guide you through hoof care, most issues become easy to understand and rehabilitate. Issues like Hoof cracks and Coffin bone rotation become easy to both understand and rehabilitate. There are no longer any reasons to fail. It is not magic, only knowledge.

How to use this site:

This website is structured to be translated and/or read aloud automatically by your browser.
Terminology may vary between languages, but the mechanical and biological principles described here are independent of wording.

1. Choose a segment below
2. Listen to the AI summary (click the 3 dots in the upper right corner, choose “Listen”). This will save you a lot of time, as AI will collect and present the summary information in a concise and easy-to-understand format.
3. If the summary has piqued your interest, then read or listen to the full protocol for details and evidence. The whole site is written in English, but you can let your browser translate and read it aloud in your native tongue.

All information on this site is and will stay free of charge for all registered members. Questions, answers, and comments will be reserved for paying members at $10 per month or $30 for 6 months. Every incoming post or comment will be monitored, and all serious questions will be answered. The reason for this “paywall” is only to sort out unserious noise that would make it impossible for serious people (like you and me) to get a good overview and easily find what we are interested in.

Share this page with every horse-loving friend you have. The bigger it gets, the more horses we will save.

A. Educational pieces.

1. Hoof capsules and coffin bones. Who’s the Boss?
2. Founder & Laminitis, definitions and explanations
3. The laminitic hoof, cause and treatment.
4. Coffin Bone Rotation. cause and cure.
5. Toe axis, the golden standard, or a complete misunderstanding
6. Deformed bones & soles.
7. Founder in the body, cause, and no cure.
8. Laminitic trim, which anyone can do.
9. Extreme toe shortening. A must if there is a need.
10. “Lowering of the coffin bone” / Distal descent, cause and cure.
11. Heel height and hoof mechanism
12. Streched sole, cause and cure.
13. Hoof balance, see the inside from the outside.
14. Hoof tipping. The proof of ignorance.
15. NPA. If your horse is suffering from NPA it’s not NPA.
16. Rehabbing traditional trims
17. Thrush. Comes from the inside, destroys the outside.
18. Bars and flares, the “dark horse” of the hoof.
19. Hoof cracks, all 3 kinds, with causes and cures.
20. Reading Radiographs

B. When all the above segments have been published, a Hoof Evaluation Service will be launched. You will be welcome to send in photographs of hooves, and I will explain what I see, draw lines on and between the photographs, add similar coffin bones, radiographs, and cut specimens for comparison.

C. There might also be a possibility for live Zoom calls where we discuss my very large collection of comparable cross-sections and radiographs.

Which one would you like me to publish next?