Experience! After seeing thousands of horses over the last 42 years, I use a straight bar for horses that have a sheared heel, an overreaching or forging problem.
Being the farrier at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center requires the profession’s traditional skills, as well as those of a teacher and an inventor
Being able to problem solve for the unexpected and unfamiliar is a job requirement for farriers. Even today, when manufacturers continually make new keg shoes and equipment to tackle nearly every footcare issue, resourceful shoers will still reach for bar stock when unique cases arise.
Shoeing From California to Boston, farrier Danny Dunson travels often, but his rig doesn’t. In fact, his Homesteader trailer is usually parked inside the Nolensville Veterinary Clinic, in Nolensville, Tenn., where he runs an equine podiatry clinic.
MICHEAL L. STEWARD probably won’t argue if you tell him you can put together a nicer looking shoe than the wooden ones he sometimes uses to treat horses with acute or chronic laminitis.
NINETY PERCENT of the horses that Rob Spencer shoes are laminitic or have other serious foot problems. His emphasis on therapeutic shoeing dictates the design and content of his rig.
Based on the price ranges given for treating this horse, you might be, but most farriers believe you need to immediately get a vet involved in this case
WHEN 18 FARRIERS described how they’d tackle the therapeutic shoeing case described at right, there were a wide variety of answers and prices that ranged from $75 to $750 for the first visit.
In this episode, Mark Ellis, a Wisconsin farrier who learned the ropes with Renchin, recalls Red’s relationships with area veterinarians, his legacy and the second career as American Farriers Journal’s technical editor.
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