Swedish Hoof School Inc. wants to make a difference.
- A difference in the number of horses that, completely unnecessary, get put down prematurely because of some hoof related condition like Laminitis, Coffin bone rotation or Distal descent.
We have the knowledge to save those horses and we would like to share it with you.
- A difference in the number of horses that suffer pain and hardship because of people's lack of knowledge about the horse's digestion system.
We have that knowledge too and we would like to share it with you.

It took me nine years of mistakes and failures to find a way to offer my horses free choice of hay in a way that worked with the environment we keep domesticated horses in and at the same time forced the horses to eat in the way they are made for. Today we have solutions for everybody regardless of if the horses are inside 24/7 (lets hope not) or outside 24/7 (or anything in between). This is a complete revolution and only masochists choose other solutions when they have seen ours.

We would like all this to become common knowledge and we would like to start with you. We want you to attend one of our clinics where we will not only tell how things work; we will also explain why it works that way, what you can do about it and why that works. To us "the why" is extremely important we want you to understand not only accept.

To get the hoof knowledge we have studied existing techniques, dissected more than thousand hooves and compared them with each other and with hooves on living horses, feral and domesticated. We have taken this knowledge and applied it to hoof care of thousands of horses of all breeds, sizes and ages, sick and sound. To get even more knowledge we educated a group of 26 European hoof care specialists and collected even their experiences. Now we have used four years to try to prove our selves wrong but instead landed in a firm believe that our model of explanation works on at least 99% of all horses.
The two major features with our model are firstly that it works and secondly that it is extremely easy to perform. To be completely honest, it is remarkably easier than the traditional methods and all other methods we have found to compare with and it is easier both to teach and to learn. We have proven that by teaching over 800 Swedish horse owners to do a magnificent job maintaining their horse's hooves them selves.
Sadly enough there are still traditionalists that say that this is too good to be true but none from that group has attended our education. Both farriers and veterinarians that have attended our education are astonished and most farriers that have attended the education have stopped nailing on metal shoes and are now recommending hoof boot as protection when needed.
It is hard to nail on permanent hoof protection when you understand what it does to the hoof.

Now there are three things I want you to do on our website:
1. Check out our seminars.
2. Read the articles.
3. Visit "Feeding".
4. Read Testimonials.

Swedish Hoof School Inc. stands free from all methods, organizations and producers.

Our experience and research has leaded us to a non traditional model of explanation for the function of the inside of the hoof. We are not saying that this model of explanation is the absolute and final truth but we are saying that working after this model of explanation give fantastic results that solves many traditional hoof issues.

To us "Coffin bone rotation", "Distal Descent", hoof cracks, flared and asymmetric hooves are not big issues. We have excellent results both rehabilitating and teaching rehabilitation of all these conditions.

We don't do politics, which means that we believe that everybody has the same right to all available knowledge and therefore are we just as happy to educate both farriers, veterinarians, barefoot specialist and horse owners.

Before coming to The US we have started and managed a school in Sweden that so far has educated 23 professional hoof specialists (farriers and barefoot specialists) and 800 horse owners to do an excellent job rehabilitating both "Coffin bone rotation", "Distal Descent", hoof cracks, flared and asymmetric hooves. We know that what we do works.

We don't do bickering. We don't want to discuss if your horse should be shod or barefoot. That discussion only makes people to lock up and loose focus of what is so much more important. Environment, feeding and Hoof Shape are all much more important than shod or barefoot. It is just as easy to destroy a barefoot hoof as it is to destroy a shod hoof. Our own horses are barefoot and I don't shoe horses even for rehabilitation purposes but we don't pass judgment on others. All horses shod or barefoot, will gain greatly from their hoof care provider having all available knowledge on hoof shape, feeding and environmental issues.

You can not be serious about hooves without including lots of knowledge about environment and feeding. To be completely honest a horse doesn't even need hoof care provided by humans if the environment and the feeding are 100% natural. Just look at The Zebras in Africa or the feral Mustangs of the Nevada desert.

Our goal is to be allowed to share our knowledge and experiences with a large enough number of horse people to make "Coffin bone rotation", "Distal Descent", hoof cracks, flared and asymmetric hooves to be considered minor issues.

Swedish Hoof School Inc.
Ove & Caisa Lind