Take Our A-Z-Animals Horse Quiz Laminitis describes acute or chronic inflammation and damage of an equine’s laminae. The ...

Acute laminitis has a sudden onset. Horses apparently normal in their movement one night ... The chronic condition may result in the separation of the hoof wall from the sensitive laminae of the foot.

Horses can have laminitis without foundering ... Since founder results in the detachment of the coffin bone within the hoof ...