At the 2013 International Hoof-Care Summit in Cincinnati, Ohio, farrier Tom Rock talks about the different factors that come into play when managing shoeing schedules.
At the 2012 AAPF Hoofcare Essentials Clinic, American Farriers Journal Editor/Publisher Frank Lessiter speaks with Jennifer Horn (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.) about the value of learning forging, and how the skills make you more adaptable as a shoer.
Farrier Donnie Karr (Loomis, Calif.) gives some tips on shoeing working cow horses while explaining the difference between a reining horse and a cutting horse.
Nothing beats sound horses as a means for keeping your clients happy. However, a farrier business is a service-based business and it is important to pay attention to more than just trimming feet and nailing shoes on feet.
Eli Beiler shoes several top Standardbred racing horses on the East Coast. In any kind of high-end, competitive discipline you need name recognition. He says the Standardbred market is no different.
New York farrier Taylor Keenan finds certain challenges that come with Icelandic horses, but likes the strict rules that come with the shoeing rules for the competing horse.
As the reigning Canadian farrier champion Iain Ritchie places horseshoe to hoof, a thick white smoke rises into the air. It is that smoke over the past 64 years that brings on McEwan's coughing. It is that same smoke that drives his passion for his work.
Greg Martin, CJF, of Boerne, Texas, takes the unique approach of marketing his hoof-care practice with a Christmas parade float in Boerne and Comfort, Texas. The award-winning float boasts a variety of surprising features.
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