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This Week

Hoof-Care Highlights: Dec. 7, 2024

By American Farriers Journal Staff posted on December 7, 2024

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.

This Week

Hoof-Care Highlights: The Week of June 26

By American Farriers Journal Staff posted on July 2, 2022 | Posted in Anatomy, Education, Diseases, Lamenesses, Therapeutic Shoeing, Trimming

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 Meader Supply.

Research Journal: May/June 2022

The information, ideas, and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the United States Department of Agriculture.

May 3, 2022 | Posted in Anatomy, Trimming

Heel Expansion and Glue-On Shoes
Application of the Ridden Horse Pain Scale
Hoof Trimming Effects Hoof Impact
CBD for Joints

Research Journal: July/August 2021

The information, ideas and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the United States Department of Agriculture.

By Albert Kane posted on July 6, 2021

Hoof Kinetics of Laminitic Horses
Image Measurement Software Validated
Effects of Hoof Trimming on Gait
Horseshoes and Traction on Concrete

Reader Commentary: March 2019

March 16, 2019

I’m writing to you regarding the article “A Non-Invasive Option for Correcting Foals’ Limbs,” which featured in the January/February 2019 issue of American Farriers Journal. The conservative, nonsurgical management of angular limb deformities (ALDs) by hoof trimming and/or glue-on extensions is well described in references such as “Adams’ and Stashak’s Lameness in Horses” (chapter 11).

News & Notes

Rodeo Couple Turned Farrier Team Tackles Practice Together

November 5, 2018

Source: Texas Monthly

Colby and Jess Smith of Alpine, Texas, met in New Mexico at Sul Ross State University in 2011. Colby did rodeo while studying farrier science, and Jess was a goat-tying and breakaway-roping competitor in school on a rodeo scholarship. After graduating, they went on the road and started their own farriery business, reports Texas Monthly.

News & Notes

KPU Farriery Program Reflects Industry Change And Lack Thereof

February 19, 2018 | Posted in Education

Source: Surrey Now-Leader

Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) has taught farriery since the school’s inception in 1981. The Surrey Now-Leader got an inside look at what students are learning now.

Farrier Quick Takes

[Video] The Proportional Balance Protocol

November 30, 2015 | Posted in Anatomy, Shoeing, Trimming

Lake Elmo, Minn., Scott Lampert explains how he developed the Proportional Balance Protocol to better understand the hoof while trimming and shoeing.

Farrier Quick Takes

[Video] Evaluating the Horse Before the Trim

October 30, 2015 | Posted in Trimming

Jacob Butler of the Butler Professional Farrier School explains how he analyzes a horse before he works with it.

Q&A: Client Questions

What are some of the best or oddest questions you've received as a farrier?

November 6, 2012 | Posted in Clients, Shoeing, Trimming

We conducted a survey with the readers of American Farriers Journal's weekly e-newsletter in which we asked farriers what are the most frequent questions that they receive from novice backyard horse owners. The 103 farriers who contributed to this survey have a combined average of 66% of backyard horses on their books. Here are all of the questions by novice horse owners, ranked in order of frequency in the survey.

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

Michigan Horseshoers Association 55th Annual Clinic

Date: 01/02/25

Location: Lansing, MI

The Michigan Horseshoers Association will host its 55th annual clinic Jan. 2-4, 2025 in East Lansing, Mich.

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