The structural component of feathers, hair, nails, horns, hooves, bones, furs, claws, hides, bird beaks, skin, wool, scales, and bristle is made up of keratin.
A glistening, obsidian mass proves to be three silos of pig's trotter, shucked of hoof and bone and stuffed with a stupefying mixture of trotter meat, pork belly, foie gras, chicken liver, truffle scraps and mushrooms.
Failure of the connection between hoof and bone (the lamellar, distal phalangeal attachment apparatus) results in the crippling lameness of laminitis.
Many vegetarians vegans avoid gelatin, as it is usually derived from animal hooves or bones.
We saw traces everywhere: antlers, other bones, hoof prints, dung, and once a great hank of soft, woolly underhair, part of the winter coat that a musk ox had shed.
The delicate laminae in your horse's hoof suspend the toe bones inside the hoof, allow the bones to move within the hoof, and alter weight distribution.
Not only does near-constant movement maintain and enhance pulmonary health, abundant locomotion maintains metabolic health, joint and bone health, hoof health and digestive health.
Constant foraging, grazing, socializing and moving are essential for joint and bone health, hoof health, metabolic health and pulmonary health, and, of course, mental health.
Chapter 3 deals with the non-dietary uses of body parts and products: skins, hair, bone, tendons, hooves, melanomas (melanomas, which develop under the tail, near to the anus, in elderly horses, are used in the production of black dyes), excretions and secretions.
You're probably eating hooves, offal, gristle and bone most of the time, and I decided that wasn't for me.
