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Balance From All the Angles

Minnesota farrier’s holistic approach benefits her clients’ horses
By Pat Tearney posted on March 1, 2003 | Posted in Business Practices, Shoeing
Even for a January day in Minnesota, it's cold. The mercury in thermometers has taken up residence far south of the "zero" mark and you don't even want to think about wind chill. Vehicle engines grumble to life reluctantly — or not at all — and it would be a good day to own a franchise in something like "Jumper Cables R Us."
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Teaching a horse “shoeing manners”
March 1, 2003 | Posted in Clients, Shoeing
I recently received a package in the mail from a nationally famous trainer that said if a horse doesn’t do seven specific things, he isn’t broke. This list failed to mention anything about training horses to stand still for a farrier. I wrote the trainer, but haven’t heard back from him and probably won’t.
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Yukon Farrier's Business, Rustic Lifestyle Are A Perfect Fit

Shoeing in remote Canadian territory presents full range of challenges — including working outside when it’s minus 13 degrees
March 1, 2003 | Posted in Business Practices, Shoeing
Reinhard Saure is the only full-time farrier in an area larger than the state of California. Living and working near Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada means recalibrating one’s sense of time and distance. The nearest big cities are Anchorage, Alaska, a 15-hour drive to the west and Edmonton, Alberta, 20 hours to the southeast.
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Modifying Keg Shoes

Give Open Bar Shoes A Test Run

Bar shoes can be expensive, so go with this alternative to see if they are necessary
By Danny Ward posted on March 1, 2003 | Posted in Shoeing, Therapeutic Shoeing
Bar shoes are popular these days because they’ve helped so many horses suffering from so many problems. However, I like to modify a shoe into an open bar before committing to using a bar shoe on a full-time basis.
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Back To The Basics

Where There's Smoke, There's Hot Fitting

The how and why of “burning” a shoe onto a foot
By Chris Gregory posted on March 1, 2003 | Posted in Shoeing
Just because you shape your shoes hot doesn’t mean you have to hot fit, of course. You can always let a hot shoe cool in the air or quench it in a bucket of water before you fit it to the horse — and there are times when you should do just that.
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The Right Shoe

For Better Flotation, Try a D-Bar Shoe

How, when and where to use this alternative to egg bars
By Walt Koepisch, Jr. posted on March 1, 2003 | Posted in Shoeing
While the D bar is another form of an egg bar shoe, it doesn't increase the amount of bony column support since it is normally the same length as a regular open shoe. However, it does increase flotation, which makes it a very valuable shoe.
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Farrier Basics

Quick Tips from a 49-Year Shoeing Veteran

California farrier Lee Green offers his advice when it comes to measuring for the right shoe, shoeing the horse and working conditions
January 1, 2003 | Posted in Shoeing
Lee Green has been around horses and an anvil his entire life.
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