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What is Ringbone?
Ringbone is a term used by horse people and veterinarians when they have identified arthritis in either the coffin joint or the pastern joint. It means that the horse has some degree of arthritis in one of those joints. When it involves the coffin joint then the horse has low ringbone, and when it involves the pastern joint then the horse has high ringbone. |
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The term may have originated because of the appearance of the leg in severely affected horses. These horses develop a circumferential swelling around the pastern joint, which looks like a ring around the pastern bones.
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