WHEN YOU LOOK through your horseshoeing library, you are bound to find some guides to various hoof problems: maybe something lighter in the way of personal farrier accounts, and definitely a number of textbooks that you will never throw away. Mike W. Ross and Sue J. Dyson have recently published the latest textbook that needs to find a home on your bookshelf — Diagnosis and Management of Lameness in the Horse.

FARRIERS CAN DO the vast majority of their work without consulting a veterinarian. Conversely, equine vets can do a lot of their work without getting together with a horseshoer.

Any horse with a problem hoof is going to need a skilled farrier and a knowledgeable veterinarian. 

With balance being so critical to the success of trotting horses, it’s no wonder that Charles Arthur McLellan devoted a lot of space to the topic in his 1927 book, “The Art Of Shoeing And Balancing The Trotter,” which has been reissued by American Farriers Journal as part of “The Farrier Classics” series.

Horse owners love their animals unconditionally but many of them don’t know the first thing about taking care of hooves.