IN AN INDUSTRY as mature as farriery, landscape-changing technologies don’t come along every day.

FARRIERS HAVE SEEN many fads come and go. As new technology and materials filter down from medical, military and space programs, we face a variety of new adhesives and synthetic materials.

TOOEY IS A a dapple gray gelding mix raised at the Herrick Thoroughbred Farm located in Lucas, Texas. He is approximately 16 hands tall and is 7 years old.

If there's one issue that baffles farriers and veterinarians, it’s how to deal with laminitis. Farriers find it hard to distinguish between the tested methods of treatment for laminitis and the people who are out there trying to sell a quick-fix solution to this debilitating problem.

WHEN A FARRIER has a day scheduled at a veterinary clinic, you know it’s not going to involve a lot of standard trims and shoeing.

PART OF YOUR chosen career as a farrier involves shoeing young horses, or sometimes older horses that have never been shod.