Lincoln Hoof Pick Horse Grooming Tool Hoof Cleaning Brush

Lincoln Hoof Pick

The plainest tool on the yard and the one used most often: a shaped handle and a single steel pick, for clearing packed mud, bedding and stones out of the foot before and after work.

There is no brush head on this one — Lincoln list the brush version, the Horse Head Hoof Pick With Brush, as a separate product. What you get here is a pick that costs very little, fits any grooming box, and is cheap enough to own several of, which matters because a hoof pick is the item most often lost in a field.

Performance & Benefits

• Steel pick reaches into the grooves either side of the frog, where mud packs hardest.
• Strong enough to lever out a wedged stone without bending.
• Shaped handle gives a controlled grip with a foot held between your knees.
• Inexpensive enough to keep one in the stable, one in the lorry and one in the tack room.
• Light and flat, so it takes up almost no room in a grooming box.

Suitable For

• Daily picking out before and after riding, turnout and travelling.
• Shod and unshod horses alike.
• Anyone putting together a first grooming kit.
• Not the quickest tool in deep winter mud, where a pick with a brush head clears the sole faster — Lincoln make that as a separate model.

How to Use

• Stand at the shoulder facing the tail, run a hand down the leg and ask for the foot.
• Work from heel to toe, away from you, so debris falls clear of your hand.
• Clear both grooves either side of the frog, and around the shoe or the wall.
• Look at the sole and frog as you go for stones, punctures, heat or a smell that was not there yesterday.
• Rinse the pick and dry it before it goes away.

Specification

• Steel pick with a shaped handle. One size.
• Lincoln barcode 5027286036269.
• This is the plain pick. Lincoln list the Horse Head Hoof Pick With Brush as a separate item.
• Lincoln publish no length, weight or handle material for this pick, so none are stated here.

Care & Caution

• The pick tip is a point. Keep it out of reach of children, and store it in a box rather than loose in a pocket.
• Work heel to toe and away from your own hand — a foot snatched back with the pick pointing the wrong way is how people get hurt.
• Keep the point clear of the frog itself and of the soft cleft at the back of it.
• Stop and call your farrier or vet if you find heat, a smell, a discharge, or anything driven into the sole.