99.9% of the time, my horses don't have hock sores. In the winter, when the ground is frozen for months at a time, it's very hard to prevent them. I'm pretty anal about them myself, but sometimes you just can't prevent them altogether, especially on young horses and foals who lie down much more often than older horses.











If anyone wants to portray me as a bad horse owner because one of my young horses has a hock sore, more power to you. I think I've more than proven otherwise.