#coffin bone

[pacificremains]

Interesting coffin bone from a horse. I have no information about it. Possibly had laminitis.

[shadyufo]

Still have a few horse coffin bones aka hoof bones available HERE in my Etsy shop!

[seraphssong]

reworking my horloz playlist in 2025? more likely than you’d think.

[er-cryptid]

Laminitis in Horses

-- inflammation of the lamina of the hoof

-- common

-- potentially devastating

-- affects all members of the equine family

-- a breakdown of the bond between the hoof wall and distal phalanx

-- the hoof wall-coffin bone is vulnerable to many diseases

-- many causes and contributing factors

[felisobscurum]

Owl pellet bone shard

Edit: Awesome people have replied that it’s a deer hoof bone. Crazy owls in southern Minnesota!! Found at Frontenac State Park.

[shadyufo]

Very neat deformed horse coffin (hoof) bone I got recently. Those high, flared protrusions are called sidebones and are most commonly seen in the front hooves of older working horses and draft breeds. Surprisingly, in most cases, horses who develop sidebones rarely become lame from it! 

The normal coffin bone is from the same animal.

[shadyufo]

Horse coffin bones are beautiful.

[remcosikkel]

Shock dissipation and vibration damping

Shock dissipation and vibration damping

It is impressive how many different structures of the hoof contribute to shock dissipation and attenuation and vibration damping when the horse’s hoof strikes the ground.

The sole and the soft tissues in the heel region (frog, digital cushion, hoof cartilages and heel bulbs) dissipate a substantial part of the initial forces generated during ground impact.

Inertia of the blood in the hoof also…

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