This Week: Hoof-care professionals across the country and the ocean are sharing what they know with others in the industry through social media, webinars and videos. Here are a few of our favorites. Hoof-Care Highlights is brought to you by Kawell USA.
My first contact with Henry Heymering and American Farriers Journal was in early 1975. He had a great idea, but the first issues printed in Florida were rough and received some criticism from me and others, including the director of the surgical and consulting clinic of the veterinary hospital at Cornell University, where I was a graduate student.
I nailed on my first set of horseshoes 60 years ago when I was 15 in 1964. It was on a kind gelding named Maverick at the summer horse camp that I attended.
Doug Butler will be the first to tell you he’s not a soothsayer. It’s quite possible you’ll find yourself on the receiving end of a stern look and a reprimand should you accuse him of such.
International Horseshoeing Hall of Famer Doug Butler, PhD, CJF, FWCF, of Chadron, Neb., shares his thoughts on the hoof-care milestones over the past half-century.
This Week: Hoof-care professionals across the country and the ocean are sharing what they know with others in the industry through social media, webinars and videos. Here are a few of our favorites.
Horse numbers were at an all-time low when I began shoeing in the early 1960s. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) had stopped counting them.
This Week: Hoof-care professionals across the country and the ocean are sharing what they know with others in the industry through social media, webinars and videos. Here are a few of our favorites.
International Horseshoeing Hall of Famer Steve Kraus explains the impact of American Farriers Journal on the trade. AFJ is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025.
Join Dr. David Rendle to learn about the link between obesity, insulin and laminitis, and discuss the diagnosis and management of pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID).
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