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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.
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The Effect of Laterality on Shoeing and Trimming

Horses tend to favor one side over the other, which has implications for hoof care and the farrier
By Simon Curtis posted on January 1, 2012 | Posted in Anatomy, Diseases
Laterality is the term used to describe any animal’s propensity for using one side of the body predominantly and the preference for one limb over the other opposing limb. Put simply, we can call it “one-sidedness.”
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Physics And Lateral Extensions

British farrier believes the numbers simply don’t add up to support some of their long-assumed benefits
By R.V. Mackie posted on December 1, 2011 | Posted in Anatomy
Farriers sometimes shoe horses with shoes that extend outside the profile of the foot.
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New Mexico Farriers Get Some Oklahoma Shoeing Wisdom

Mark Milster stresses importance of observation and understanding the needs of the individual horse
By John Bradshaw posted on December 1, 2011 | Posted in Anatomy
Mark Milster gave some tips on everyday shoeing and forging at the first-ever clinic held at San Marcos Feed, near Santa Fe, N.M. When San Marcos Feed took over the farrier supply side of Wagon Mound Ranch Supply, owner Tom Macdonnell decided to continue the tradition of hosting an annual shoeing clinic.
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Treating Soft-Tissue Injuries

Farriers play an important team role in preventing, treating and rehabilitating damages of this kind that lame numerous horses
By Christy Corp-Minamiji DMV posted on December 1, 2011 | Posted in Anatomy
Although farriery overtly deals with the structures of the hoof capsule, a farrier may be involved with soft tissue injuries of the limb at any stage — from identification through rehabilitation. The term “soft tissue” technically includes any tissue that is not bone or horn: nerve, blood vessels, skin, subcutis, muscle, tendon, ligament, joint capsule, bursa, cartilage or fat.
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Boning Up on Equine Anatomy

Students at Heartland Horseshoeing School put together an articulated horse skeleton under the direction of Walter Varcoe
By Chris Gregory posted on November 1, 2011 | Posted in Anatomy

 After several years of going to the International Hoof-Care Summit in Cincinnati and drooling over the articulated skeletons that Walter Varcoe makes, I finally decided to get him to come out to Missouri and do a clinic.  


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Study Finds Feral Hooves Are Far From Perfectly Healthy

Research from Australia calls into question the concept of using mustang-style hooves as a model for trimming domestic horses
By Pat Tearney posted on September 1, 2011 | Posted in Anatomy
The feral horse foot that more than a few people have pointed to as the ideal appearance for all horse hooves may not be that model of perfection after all.
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