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Overcome “Bad” Horses in Your Hoof-Care Practice

Gaining trust and nurturing your relationships with horses will make your job easier

By Heather Smith Thomas posted on May 17, 2019 | Posted in Education, Safety & Healthcare

Every farrier at one time or another comes across a horse that’s difficult to work with — or has a reputation of being difficult. There might be some horses that you would prefer not to have to deal with, but you realize that it’s in your best interest to go ahead and do them.

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Drugs Often Are The Best Option With Anxious Horses, Vet Says

By Heather Smith Thomas posted on May 11, 2015 | Posted in Safety & Healthcare

When dealing with an anxious horse, prescription drugs sometimes are necessary to make a bad situation safer.

Training Horses to be Farrier-Friendly

Tips and tools you can recommend to get your clients’ horses to stand better

By Heather Smith Thomas posted on May 8, 2015 | Posted in Business Practices, Clients, Safety & Healthcare

It’s not the farrier’s job to train the horse, but sometimes it’s necessary, especially when the client is a novice horse owner. Farriers want to work with the horse safely and improve its tolerance of foot handling.

How To Get Owners To Join The Hoof-Care Team

Persistent communication is the key to getting clients involved with their horses’ footcare

By Heather Smith Thomas posted on April 1, 2015 | Posted in Business Practices

Often a new client is a first-time horse owner and doesn’t know much about hoof care. By educating new owners more about hoof care, the farrier can encourage them to take an active role in the health of the horse’s feet.

More Thoughts On Breakover

Hoof-care professionals talk about the topic often, but sometimes aren’t even starting from the same definition

By Heather Smith Thomas posted on September 1, 2013 | Posted in Lamenesses

Breakover. Enhancing breakover. Easing breakover. Changing breakover. It's one of the most frequently used terms in the farrier vocabulary. Everyone seems to have thoughts and opinions and - surprise, surprise - they often aren't the same.

Balance: More About The Trim Than The Shoes

Montana vet-farrier has found trimming to conformation is often enough to restore lame horses to soundness

By Heather Smith Thomas posted on January 1, 2012 | Posted in Anatomy

Whenever farriers talk about feet, there's a lot of discussion about hoof balance. For sound, healthy feet, balance is crucial, but the concept of balance is not always understood.

Therapeutic Shoeing

Proper Planning, Teamwork Play Big Role

Advancements in materials and techniques offer hope for serious injuries, but place premium on continuing hoof-care education

By Heather Smith Thomas posted on January 1, 2011 | Posted in Therapeutic Shoeing

Therapeutic shoeing has made great advances in the past few decades, partly because there’s more interest in this specialty, and also because of the development of better methods for dealing with therapeutic situations.

Dealing with Thrush and White Line Disease

Combining topical treatments with good hoof care will help you keep these common problems under control

By Heather Smith Thomas | Posted in Diseases

Among the most common problems farriers deal with are thrush and white line disease. Thrush, affecting the sulci of the frog and sometime deeper tissues, is generally caused by bacteria. The most common culprit is fusobacterium necrophorum, which causes a variety of diseases, including navel ill/joint ill in foals, diphtheria in calves and foot rot in cattle.

How Comfortable Are You With Radiography?

If you’re not working with equine veterinarians to get a look inside problem hooves, you might not be doing all you can for the horses and their owners. Here’s how to get more involved with this technology

By Ron Perszewski posted on July 1, 2007 | Posted in Education, Equipment

Sooner or later, most every farrier will come across a problem foot and wonder what's going on inside the hoof wall. So, when is it right for a farrier to request radiographs, and what's to be expected after such a request?

Book Notes

This Book of Basics Gives Nod to Natural

Understanding Equine Hoof Care

By Heather Smith Thomas posted on March 1, 2007 | Posted in Education

This is a primer on hoof trimming, shoeing and overall care written primarily for horse owners, though it might serve as a starting point for someone interested in becoming a farrier.

Videos

Hoof Care on Parade

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.

Events

2025 International Hoof-Care Summit

Date: 01/21/25

Location: Kansas City, MO

Centered around Advancing Hoof Health Through Innovation & Expertise, the International Hoof-Care Summit is returning for its 22nd Annual event in Kansas City, Mo., on Jan. 21-24, 2025.

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