Hooves

The hooves of racehorses used to be commonly silvered to be used as ashtrays or to hold cigarettes, and covering the hooves with silver also preserves the bone.

Their feet are equipped with hooves, however, which cover the toe almost completely; rhinos and tapirs, by contrast, have hooves covering only the leading edge of the toes, with the bottom being soft.

Even seeds of invasive plants that deer don’t eat, such as Japanese stilt grass, can spread if they are picked up on the animals’ hooves and dropped in other areas as deer move through the forest.

Held in front of an estimated 85,000 crowd, drinking and socialising took priority over racing for many, with the sound of popping champagne corks accompanying the thundering of hooves.

Keratin is the same protein present in hair, as well as the horns, claws and hooves of other animals.

The president licked his wounds in dignified quiet — the same quiet he used to unhorse his galloping traducers, with their clattering hooves.

Youth learned about goat nutrition, how to trim their goats’ hooves, check for parasites, and administer medications like de-wormers and vaccines.

After all, those hooves can really pack a punch when landing on rooftops!

April showers and the hooves of roughly 2,000 cows had transformed whole sections of the lots into a slippery goo of dirt, dung and urine.

Cows may not have fingers or hooves with unique prints, but they do have a quirky identifier called a nose print.

Efficient careThe Hoof bath for Lely Meteor offers regular care for hooves.

He says for the Lakota, the birth of a white buffalo calf with a black nose, eyes and hooves is akin to the second coming of Jesus Christ.

The event is taking place at Cardenden’s Hooves n’ Paws, field two, at 1.15pm on Sunday.

As a boy growing up in the Bronx, he would sit on the fire escape and play along to the sounds around him: street vendors’ cries, horses’ hooves clopping, crickets chirping.

A welfare check on the animals found them to be vulnerable and neglected, with their hooves grown out to an uncomfortable length, and the Gardaí, along with the help of local animal charities, began preparing to save them.

Dixon, 50, first cleaned the horse's hooves of dirt, preparing to remove the shoes.

In the spring, their hooves shorten and their foot pads expand, making it easier for them to walk on the melting tundra's boggy areas, as well as on wet snow.

It was a common belief that cutting hair or trimming nails (or trimming the hooves of a horse) on the evening of a full moon would cause them to grow back faster.

When Pefferly was finished, he carved the horse that Sheila wanted, which included a flowing mane, a bit in its open mouth, and its left front leg raised in a prancing stance, as well as other personalized touches like real horseshoes on its hooves.

A national animal rights organization this week applauded the New York Congressional delegation for backing a ban on “soring” — intentionally inflicting pain to a horse's legs or hooves to force them to perform an artificial, exaggerated gait.